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April 14, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 14, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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Hiya folks and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the commanding officer of Operation Chaos here to report to you that the objectives are being met and exceeded, ladies and gentlemen.
Bloodletting.
Blood on the floor at the Democrat Party.
It is a beautiful thing to see.
I mean, here you've got Barack Obama running around and calling all these people in small towns basically a bunch of racists and bigots.
Phony religious people.
They only cling to God when things are going bad.
If they if things are going good, they would cling to government, not God, is what he meant.
And then my one of my favorite lines in his uh in his dissertation, people who have antipathy towards those not like them.
Well, hell's bells, folks.
Who the hell does that describe if not the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and his wife?
Jeremiah Wright is the guy, and by the way, you want to talk about traditions and values and institutions?
What do you think Jeremiah Wright's flock walks out of that church believing each and every day, along with the kids that are in that church each and every day?
Who is it that's making people embittered?
Who is it that's trying to make them mad?
Who is it that wants them filled with rage?
It's Barack Obama's pastor.
It's Barack Obama's wife.
You know, if you trace this, you go back to before the Jeremiah Wright episode occurred, and what did we have?
We had almost a messianic candidate.
We had a guy of hope and the future.
And working together with one another and unity.
We had slogans.
We had a guy saying nothing better than anybody has ever said nothing in my life.
And then the Reverend Jeremiah Wright tapes hit.
And ever since then, Obama has been unable to get back on his message of hope and unity and all the other rot gut that it was before this happened.
What has happened, ladies and gentlemen, is that we are finding out who Barack Obama is.
Now, you Obamaites out there, you can try to spin this all you want.
And you can say that people like me are taking him out of context and twisting it.
We're just listening to his words.
And he's the one who's apologized for saying that he said it wrong, and now he's out there trying to fix it with the uh aiding and betting of the drive-by media.
Now, Clinton's comment, Clinton back in 1991, basically said that white people out there scared of black people and that the Republicans are using this to divide people and scare them even more.
I mean, bad as it was, it doesn't go as far as Obama's comment.
Obama went after religion.
He went after the Second Amendment.
He called millions of Americans who he's courting racists because they oppose illegal immigration.
And now Obama's saying that Clinton and McCain are out of touch, not him, because they've been in Washington for years.
Now, they may all be out of touch.
I mean, I have to chuckle when I hear Mrs. Clinton calling anybody an elitist.
McCain, they may be all out of touch because they've been in Washington their whole lives, or they've been in government some lengthy time in all of their lives.
But it's Obama who said what he said.
It is Obama who smeared tens of millions of Americans.
John Broder in the New York Times today, Democrats wrangle over words and beliefs.
This is about this this wacky compassion forum that took place last night in uh in Pennsylvania at Messiah College.
I mean, how about this?
Here you've got Obama sitting in front of the backdrop.
Messiah College, and he was trying to portray himself as a Messiah.
He was getting away with it until Jeremiah Wright hit.
In response to the first question at the forum, Mrs. Clinton repeated her charge that Obama's remarks were elitist out of touch and frankly patronizing.
She said his words helped perpetuate the idea that Democrats look down their noses at church-going Americans and hunters.
An attitude that many Democrats believe contributed her last two presidential losses.
It's true.
It's true.
Dare I remind you.
Yes, I do dare.
John F. Carey, the haughty John Kerry, somewhere in Ohio wanting to go hunting.
Ends up dressing like Johnny Carson used to when he was making fun of hunters.
He walks into the ammo store.
Can I get me a hunting license here?
Can I get me a hunting?
What is that tell you?
This is John Kerry.
They're all this way.
Obama has pulled away the shroud, ladies and gentlemen, that has masked who Democrats are.
Can I get me a hunting license here?
John Kerry doesn't speak that way, but he thinks all of you who have guns do.
Religion has become a this is from the story of the New York Times.
Religion has become a contentious subtext in a Democrat campaign in recent days after Obama's comments.
Before the forum, he began his most spirited counterattack on Hillary since the flap erupted over his remarks, saying of her attacks, she knows better.
Shame on her.
He also mocked Mrs. Clinton's own recent comments courting gun owners, saying she was talking like she's Annie Oakley.
Hillary Clinton out there like she's on the duck blind every Sunday.
She's packing a six shooter.
Come on, she knows better.
Hey, Hillary, or by you don't go hunting with a six shooter.
This this guy is not who he is made out to be.
He is not who he's cracked out to be.
Greetings, my friends, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network 800-282-288-2.
If you want to go to the uh beyond the program with the phones, the uh audio sound bites we have now, and by the way, I want to go back and let you listen to me.
Uh we're gonna start audio soundbite 16, Mike.
This is me on uh uh this program April 8th, and this is what I said would be the case when I first learned they're gonna do this stupid compassion for him instead of a debate.
This is what I said.
I'll make you a prediction that the morality they discuss is what government's role is.
That's how they define morality.
If the government's involved in it, it's moral.
If the government isn't involved in it, it isn't moral and needs the government involved in it.
All right, let's go to the audio sound bites now from uh Grantham, Pennsylvania, uh Messiah College.
The moderator out there for CNN, Campbell Brown says, What exactly is wrong, uh, Senator Clinton, with what Senator Obama said when he talked about people being bitter.
The characterization of people uh in a way that uh really seemed to be elitist and out of touch is something that uh we have to overcome.
You know, the Democratic Party, to be very blunt about it, has been viewed as a party that didn't understand and respect the values and the way of life of so many of our fellow Americans.
You included someone goes to a closed door fundraiser in San Francisco and makes comments that do seem elitist, out of touch, and frankly patronizing.
You've done it too.
He has nothing to do with him being a good man or a man of faith.
We had two very good men and men of faith run for president in 2000 and 2004.
But large segments of the electorate concluded that they did not really understand or relate to, or frankly respect their ways of life.
That they didn't respect them.
She's talking about Gore and Carey.
And Kerry, can I get me a hunting license here?
When these two guys started talking about hunting, it was obvious it was focus group tested, and that they were repeating lines that tested well in in focus groups.
It's not who they are.
They have disdain for hunters.
They have disdain for people who like guns.
They have disdain for people who go to church.
Folks, by by definition, liberals fear organized religion.
They fear the boundaries that it creates.
They are very they're they want people's faith to be in government and in liberals.
Not in God.
I mean, Obama was simply being as honest as he could be because he didn't think anybody outside the mansion in San Francisco would uh would would would ever hear about this.
And here's a question for you.
I can answer it for you, too, but the question is okay, you got a lot of libs out there who just hate hunters.
They just despise, they want guns out Of the hands of everybody.
Elitist liberal Democrats.
Now listen to what they're hearing.
In 2000, they had to listen to Gore talk about his respect for hunters.
In 2004, they had to listen to the haughty John Kerry talk about his respect for hunting.
And now you got to listen to Hillary Clinton talk about how she's out there in a duck blind and she's a hunter and she understands that a Democrats are a bunch of elitists.
This is Operation Chaos on full display.
I couldn't be happier.
I couldn't be prouder.
Look at what we have wrought here, ladies and gentlemen.
And it's only going to get worse.
This, I mean, there's no dream ticket, possibly a dream ticket here.
I mean, it it's all blowing up now.
Now here's here's Obama.
He was up next later, well, later in the program, and Campbell Brown said, Senator Obama, to a lot of the religious leaders in this room, a lot of decent hardworking people out there, it may have come across as you attacking their values of their religion, suggesting that people are clinging to it.
What I was saying is that when economic hardship hits in these communities, what people have is they've got family, they've got their faith, they've got the traditions that have been passed on to them from generation to generation.
Those aren't bad things.
That's what they have left.
And unfortunately, what people have become bitter about, and oftentimes have uh told me about as I traveled through not just Pennsylvania, but I was referring to states all across the Midwest, including my home state, is any confidence that the government is listening to them.
They don't think that government's listening to them.
Oh man, this is just so frustrating.
Uh most of them, Senator Obama, don't give a rat's rear end whether government's listening to them.
You know, that they they they have made their lives despite the obstacles government has put in front of them.
This is classic liberal speak.
People are hopeless and wandering aimless through the jungle through the wilderness, unless their government is with them at every step of the way.
I admit there are a lot of sad sacks like that, and it's unfortunate and they've been made that way by liberalism over the past fifty years.
But the vast majority of the people that Obama's talking about in small town of America, these are the people that make the country work.
And they're not people that sit around and wait for they make opportunities.
They make events happen in their lives.
They're not sitting around on the couch waiting for things, and if they are, they're liberal Democrats.
And so Obama, if he's if he's talking about anybody, it's his own constituency group.
Because Obama and his party have made them that way.
But that doesn't define the entire population of all small small town America.
Uh next up, uh Reverend Richard uh Sizek, I'm not sure you pronounce his name, C-I-Z-I-K, said during the QA, uh, how how do you relate your faith, personal convictions to science generally and science policy?
Let's take an issue like climate and flesh that out or take stem cells, something like that.
Just give us a little more indication of how you think.
One of the things I draw from the Genesis story is uh the importance of us being good stewards of uh of the land uh of this incredible gift.
Stop the tape a second.
I'm getting the secretary of holdings, but stop it.
If it's not on a prompter, this guy can't put two words together with a uh uh and a John Edwards kind of eh.
I think John Edwards is rubbed off on this guy.
I think if you go back and listen to some John Edwards in these debates, well, um, I think that we can do a lot for uh poor people, and I believe that we ought to have a lot more poor people uh getting less poor, and I think that Elizabeth has done great work in his camp.
Obama's picked that up.
Start the bite at the top.
He has, and it's irritating to me.
Guys running for president sounds like an idiot.
We need somebody that can articulate when he's not reading a teleprompter.
How many of you Democrats think that?
Ha ha ha ha.
Try it again here.
One of the things I draw from the Genesis story is uh the importance of us being good stewards of uh of the land.
Keep going.
Of this incredible gift.
Uh and you know, I think there have been times where we haven't been.
Uh and uh This is one of those times where we've got to take uh take the warning seriously.
Uh I know that uh uh Al Gore was mentioned earlier.
Uh by the way, I have to say I think Al Gore won and has done uh uh terrific work since I think that we are enough warning science, bro.
Stop the tape!
Are you a constitutional lawyer now?
You ever heard of the Electoral College Obama or Al Gore won?
And he's done terrific work since.
Do you people remember what the question was here?
The question from the guy was how do you relate your faith and personal convictions to science generally?
And part of what my religious faith teaches me is to take an intergenerational view, to recognize that we are borrowing this planet from our children and our grandchildren.
We're not we're not borrowing anything, Obama.
We're not borrowing, we didn't we have not borrowed the planet, we have not purchased the planet, we are not even leaving the plan.
I mean, the planet is I'll be back.
This is just I cannot believe we have uh we have one more uh sound bite from the compassion forum last night.
Now, Mrs. Clinton here in response to Obama's comments in San Francisco is is trying to portray herself as an all-knowing, uh all-understanding uh theologian slash Christian.
She understands that Obama went wrong with us, and it's all by the same token.
We're supposed to look at her as uh someone who is uh devoutly religious uh with uh tremendous uh biblical scholarship uh underlying her existence.
So you tell me, after you listen to this, if you think she has the slightest clue what she is talking about, a question from uh John Meekham, the editor of Newsweek last night.
Senator Clinton, we've heard about HIV AIDS.
Many people here are concerned about DARFAR, a number of other humanitarian issues.
Why do you think it is that a loving God allows innocent people to suffer?
Now, what's what what's wrong for those of you who are in this audience who are Christian and religious?
What's wrong with the question?
The question's premise is totally flawed.
Mrs. Clinton could have said that and then gone on, but she didn't.
Here's what she said.
Both the old and the new testament, the incredible demands that God places on us and that the prophets ask of us, and that Christ called us to respond to on behalf of the poor are unavoidable.
So maybe, you know, the Lord is just waiting for us to respond to his call.
Because this despair, this impoverishment of body and soul is what we are expected to be spending our time responding to, and so few of us do.
And it's a personal call, it's a family community religious call, and it's a governmental call.
And we've got to do more to respond to that call.
That's embarrassing.
That is embarrassing.
It's just it's just flat out embarrassing.
I mean, the question says it all.
How can and by the way, HIV AIDS?
Um, humanitarian issues.
Why do you think it is that a loving God allows innocent people to suffer?
Uh a loving God, the God of creation, and the God of free will, thus doesn't allow anything.
That's the premise of this question is to me, it is simply shocking.
It's no different had he said, how come you think God makes certain airplane crashes take place and not others?
And how come God decides which people are going to be killed or horribly injured in automobile accidents?
Uh it's not what God does.
She turns this question into a st an answer that says we're not charitable enough that We haven't responded to God's demand that we take care of our fellow men.
Which, if she wants to answer it that way, is insulting as it can be.
This is the greatest country in the history of human civilization.
This country is exceptional.
I don't hear any candidate talking about it, and it frankly irritates me.
We don't hear about it from the Republican side.
We don't hear about it from these two.
This country has done more for the sick.
This country has done more for the oppressed than any country in the history of civilization.
And Mrs. Clinton and Obama both want to sit there and act like we haven't responded to God's call, and we haven't done enough.
And it's a personal thing, and we gotta do more, and they're not doing enough.
And they want to use government as this vehicle for for doing this.
Again, when government does it, it's moral.
When government doesn't do it, it is immoral.
These answers illustrate that not just Obama, but Hillary too still holds these prejudices about dumb Hayseed hicks that are devoutly religious.
She doesn't understand them at all.
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Back to the phones, people have been waiting.
Bruce in uh in Brooklyn.
Thank you, sir, for waiting and welcome.
Thanks very much, Rush, and uh greetings from the conservative insurgency and elitist out of New York City.
Thank you, sir.
Um I want to first entirely agree with your point that what Limbaugh said in San Francisco was not a misstatement.
I think that his rhetoric is finally catching up with his record.
Um you mean what Obama said in San Francisco, because I haven't been there in a long time.
Oh, I I'm I'm so sorry, I apologize, Russia.
I've been on hold for a while and I'm a little scrambled.
I understand that, but we got to be careful of people trying to spin things uh into that I said it.
You know, I can't let that happen.
No, of course, I I'm glad you corrected the record.
Uh as to Obama, I think there is a real and growing figure within the Democratic Party, and what he said um is evidence of that.
And I point to yesterday's Meet the Press.
James Carville, perhaps in an unguarded moment, said the following, and I quote, there's a large segment of the Democratic Party that would like to win an election without these kind of white working class voters.
He was talking to Bob Schrum, and from what I I take from that, what he's trying to say is that there is a large segment of the Democratic Party that feels that working class, perhaps more culturally conservative Democrats are getting in the way of the liberal agenda, and perhaps this election can be a watershed for the liberals by voting by getting someone like Obama in.
Well, you know, that's a good point because the the Democrats right now have a governing majority in the House of Representatives because conservative Democrats running ran against Rhino Republicans in some southern states, and these uh these conservative Democrats are not proving to be a rubber stamp for Nancy Pelosi.
Uh, and there's a feeling that, yeah, well, what what good is if we're winning see, they don't like Mavericks in their party.
They want to run them out.
And so th the people you're talking about, the Democrats look at them as little litter mavericks, these southern white hayseed hick Democrats uh who can't be counted on to be good liberals in a consistent basis.
Uh I th I think I think Carville is uh is exactly right.
Uh and uh did he say anything about what was this in the context of Obama's comments in San Francisco?
It was precisely in that context.
He was having a bit of an argument with Bob Shrum, another Democratic strategist.
And let me ask you a question.
Yes.
I I need to call Tim Rush and A to ask him a question.
Bob Shrum is what?
O for thirteen.
Yes.
All right.
Would you have Marv Levy, great guy, nice guy, coach of the Buffalo Bills, lost four straight Super Bowls.
Would you put Marv Levy on a sports talk show to explain how to win a Super Bowl?
No, and I'm originally from San Francisco, so I'd I'd rather have, you know, someone like Bill Walsh.
Right.
So what do you what is this with Bob Schrum, who's old for thirteen, they put him on television, and he's a smug, arrogant guy to begin with, and it and he's supposed to be there advising Democrats how to win the White House.
Right.
And he and he seems to really be sympathizing with Obama anyway, and that's why I was thrilled.
Well, of course.
That that Carville, as they say, perhaps in an unguarded moment, would pull back the curtain a bit on the Democratic Party and show the concern that they have between their more culturally conservative elements and the liberals who really want to win this November.
Well, we've we have a couple sound bites here.
Then these might be the two in question for Meet the Press yesterday.
Uh this is Carville with uh and the round table, by the way, was uh Carvel with with Mary Madeline and uh and of course Schram and Egg Mark Mike Murphy uh was there.
Russard says, James Carville, is this bitter remark of Obama's a real issue?
Yeah, I think it is an issue, and and the other thing is there's just some slight historical inaccuracies in here.
The gun culture has been part of Pennsylvania forever for a long, long time.
I remember the Deer Hunter, which is one of the really great movies in 1978.
I don't think that Senator Obama really understands the relationship of Pennsylvanians and Midwesterners, the Southerners and their guns.
I mean, I I have eight guns myself.
I don't want to be better about things.
And also that the r the people have been going to church in Pennsylvania for a long time.
A really long time.
This cultural history is way, way off.
So it's not it's not the comment where he says some people would like to uh lose or win without these clowns uh that Obama was insulting.
Uh but uh I I have a gun myself.
I love going out and pull a trigger, dude, and then I go in there, have my gumbo.
Uh and people going to church for a long time.
So Schrum.
Here's Shrum's reply.
Uh Russia says Bob Schrum, your response.
He's not running for sociologists in chief.
He's running for president.
So I think he wishes he hadn't said it quite this way.
I think he wishes he'd said it the same way he did the second day around.
Now the truth is, James and I, starting 25 years ago in focus groups in Pennsylvania polling, etc.
Heard a lot of anger, a lot of frustration.
So there's an element of truth in what he said.
But the underlying question here is whether McCain and Clinton can tag him with the term elitist, which is what they want.
I mean, there's a guy who just finished paying his student loans, who was raised by a single mother and his grandparents who doesn't know what it's like to have a hundred million dollars.
He just got through trashing that grandmother, too.
He just got through throwing her under the bus and then he backed the bus over to make sure she's dead.
Crying out loud, Bob just finished paying his student loans, doesn't know what it's like to have a hundred million dollars.
He knows a guy that does, and the guy that does, Tony Risco helped him get his house.
What do you mean, Bob?
O for thirteen.
Operation chaos.
Joe in Rockland County in New York, you're next.
I'm glad you waited.
Hello.
Hey, uh Rush, how are you doing?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
Um uh hope that my whole comment can come in, because I know you have the delay system going on there.
But um there's just a few things that I would like to state.
One is I want to thank you and Sean Hannity for proving to the world that Barack Obama is not a Muslim, but that he's a Christian.
That helped us out in a great way.
I mean, no one could have done it better than you two to explain to the world that he's a Christian.
Two, I wonder.
Wait a minute.
Now, I gotta ask you, you sound awfully bitter out there, Joe.
You're you're you're sounding bitter and contentious.
I never called him a Muslim.
No, well, I'm saying a lot of the right wing people have went out of their way.
I didn't know it was necessary to prove he was a Christian.
Well, well, uh a lot of the people on the right wing felt that he was a Muslim.
However, you know, the law of attraction says whatever we dwell on or whatever we think about on a regular basis will become bigger.
And Barack has become bigger because of the actions of you and Sean Hannity.
And if you look at the situation at hand, you see clearly that he is the man that's gonna end up going into the White House.
Now I know that a lot of the right wing people may have a problem with that because he may a lot of he may go to the White House.
I have I I it may it probably doesn't matter who goes to the White House in the end here, but he he may well go.
Well, you seem like a smart man.
I mean, that's why I'm so depressed.
But did you vote for Bush last in the first and second?
I never discuss what goes on in the ballot both.
Okay, because without a doubt, I'm on the bet.
As much as you talk about the left wing, which I obviously must have voted for the right wing.
And here's the man that's in the White House that have taken us to war.
Four thousand people are dead in America, twenty-five thousand or more uh are wounded, seriously wounded because of the war that was unjust.
Joe.
There's no weapons of mass destruction.
Joe, what do you do for a living?
Can I ask?
Well, I'm in the music industry as well as I'm a motivational speaker.
I go to schools on a regular basis speaking to children about their life.
Exactly.
You're a motivational speaker?
Absolutely.
You go to schools on a regular basis?
Absolutely.
Oh, geez.
We're screwing.
What are you doing on a regular basis to try to help the plight that may be facing many uh children of less fortunate denominations?
I'm trying to cancel out the negativity done by people like you.
Well, what if you're not going to be able to do that?
You're out there, I mean, you you're you're spouting uh a propaganda line, the 4,000 death to 25,000 women, taking us to an unjust war and so forth.
You're out there ripping your country.
You're out there ripping.
We live in the greatest country on the face of the earth, and your lectures your lectures tear it down.
It's no surprise to me that you vote Obama.
Obama doesn't like country either.
He's got a lot of resentment for it.
And you do too.
And way too many way too many Americans do.
You people you're the ones that are bitter, you're the ones that are filled with rage.
And your daughter and Sean Hannaby's daughter and son is probably saying, Dad, but all the stuff that you told us talking to this black man is going into the White House.
I'm having trouble here.
Joe, I don't have a daughter that I know of.
Well, you you you may have one.
You never know.
I mean, you spew so much hate.
You you know, would they try to say drama is you are actually that and you know, this is this this is what frustrates me.
There's no hate on this program.
There's love, devotion to America, and a great appreciation for the exceptionalism of this country, a belief that the people of this country do extraordinary things for the rest of the world as well as the people in this country.
There's no hate here.
There's no prejudice or bigotry on this program.
There is simply a great loathing of liberalism, a fear of what liberalism has done to the very fabric of our society and culture and what it will continue to do if it is not stopped.
And so the purpose of this program is to try to alert to as many people as possible the danger posed by an ever expanding liberal government, liberal dominated culture.
Uh, but it is not based on hate, it's based on love.
It's based on the love of this country and the love for this people, a desire for everybody in this country to be the best they can be.
We don't want people to be angry.
Not in the United States of America, so there's no reason to be.
There's no reason to be constantly embittered and fed up and enraged, not in the greatest country on earth, not with the greatest prosperity, not with the greatest freedom.
I know people say, well, not for everybody.
It's accessible to everybody.
It most certainly is.
Anybody of any skin color, sex, race, gender, you name it, orientation, it's accessible to one and all.
The crying shame is that we don't have enough people who are willing to inspire people to reach for their dreams.
Their dreams are put down.
Their dreams are insulted.
It's no different than me in my early radio days asking advice of people who have failed.
People who are bitter about this business.
If I had listened to them, I would be one of them.
I would be a failure.
Too many people in this country listen to people who want to depress them, who want to tell them they have no hope, who want to tell them they have no chance unless they give their lives to government.
And it is a it is it is it is near criminal.
The destruction of lives.
The spirit in so many people that liberalism has inflicted.
And you're you're participating in that, Joe.
If you're out there lecturing, there's nothing motivational about what you're doing unless you're motivating them to hate the country.
Unless you're motivating them to be suspicious, but that's not the kind of motivation we're interested in here.
We're interested in motivating people to be better than they think they can be, to reach deep down and find things about themselves that are better than they even know.
We want people to like themselves.
We want people to like their families, want people to appreciate the opportunities that this country offers and provides.
And it's frustrating as hell to me, Joe.
It's not just the Democrats talking uh missing this, no Republicans talking about it either.
It is very frustrating to listen to a whole presidential campaign and listen to nothing but a bunch of candidates who are trying to relate to people in their misery.
Yeah, we know it's bad out there, but vote for me and I'll fix it.
Rather than talking about the greatness of this country, the future greatness, the past greatness, the expanding greatness That's possible here.
All the good things this country does, all the great things this country has done, all the great things this country can do, and you're out lecturing people on an unjust war and confirming their basist attitudes about this country, which is not helpful to them.
And so when Obama continues to talk about people who are embittered and angry in this country, he can thank people like you who are contributing to it by telling people they ought to feel that way.
And he can thank the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and frankly, he can thank himself, because it's exactly what his game plan is.
Late arriving show prep, folks, or I would have been speaking sooner.
I know people tune in eagerly awaiting my dulcet tones.
Okay, so our caller, what was that guy's name?
Was that Joe?
The uh the last caller from uh was it Joe or John or whatever?
Um resorts to the usual hate speech, attacks right wing radio, attacks me by saying I teach my daughter racism when I don't have a daughter.
And I don't teach anyone racism here, I fight it.
We fight racism on this program.
It is, you know, where I'm not gonna let him get away with this, folks.
This is exactly what's going on today, the attempt to spin Obama's comments into those criticizing Obama as the bigots.
Obama is saying what he said.
Obama is tapping into this bigotry and racism.
That's why his comments at the San Francisco fundraiser were so sickening, because he believes it.
He is spreading it wherever and whenever he can.
That is when he doesn't think the targets of his smears are listening.
Hellsbells, who's he with?
It's a fundraiser for crying out loud.
He's with zillionaires, gazillionaires, billionaires, and millionaires in San Francisco.
A bunch of elitists.
And everybody knows what they think of people in the heartland and Midwest, of people who make this country work.
He's trying to get money out of these people.
And he's saying exactly what they think, too.
You see, we have reached the point here, ladies and gentlemen, where patriotism is defined as adopting the attitude and positions of those who smear the country and its values, faith, rule of law, military victory, capitalism.
If you criticize those things, you are now patriotic.
If you hate those things, you are now a patriot.
Because your country's not worth all these great traditions and institutions.
This country fights unjust wars.
This country oppresses people.
This country makes it possible for people to have suffering in Darfur.
This country enables genocide in Rwanda.
This country does all the evil in the world.
This country's destroying the planet with global warming and everything else.
So if you hate this country, you are a patriot.
That's the new patriotism.
And Obama is tapping into it.
And if you oppose a candidate, you happen to oppose a candidate because of his positions, and you are white and he is black, then you are automatically a racist.
If that candidate smears millions of people who are different than he is, then he is merely misstating his position.
He was clumsy, and he gets a gets a redo.
From uh David Paul Kuhn today in the Politico.com, the furor surrounding Obama's comments about bitter small town voters and their faith clouds an emerging storyline that stood to benefit the eventual Democrat nominee at McCain's expense.
That narrative was an ironic twist on long-standing partisan stereotypes, a November election that figured to be between a Democrat who's comfortable talking about faith and a Republican who is not.
But now the Illinois Senator's controversial remarks about bitter small town Pennsylvanians who cling to religion has suddenly reintroduced an unwelcome issue, undermining the progress made by concerted Democrat Party outreach to religious voters and reinvigorating criticism that the effort to woo religious voters is more rhetoric than substance.
Laura Olson, Clemson University professor, says the danger, frankly, is that Democrats will be perceived as disingenuous.
They are.
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