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August 26, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
	Folks, let me just tell you.
	Last night, if it's any indication, I mean, this thing is so dull.
	This convention is so dull.
	I should have taken a vacation week this week.
	Where the Democrats, I know they tried, they presented an image of themselves last night that is not reality, which they had to do.
	We're going to break it all down for you here, and we're going to try to keep a straight face as we go through most of this.
	Great to have you with us.
	Rush Limbaugh back in action at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-288-2, and the email address is Ilrushpo at EIBNet.com.
	Last night after Michelle Obama's speech.
	And by the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, if we are to accept Michelle Obama's speech at face value last night, then why would she say this was a downright mean country and that this was the first time in her adult life she was proud of her cup?
	Well, what which Michelle Obama we supposed to believe?
	I'm going to answer all these questions.
	But before we get to that, after her speech last night, they went to the video uh camera, and on the other end of the camera was the Messiah, the Lord Barack Obama, most merciful.
	And uh he he and his daughter Sasha had this little exchange.
	I'm here with uh the Gerardo family uh here in St. Louis.
	This is Jim and Alicia, and like us and and uh they've just been wonderful hosts uh the the whole time that we've been watching.
	Daddy, what city are you in?
	I'm in Kansas City, sweetie.
	See what happened was see, I'm from Missouri, and this is a gaff.
	You people don't understand this.
	This is a gaffe.
	Kansas City and St. Louis hate each other.
	There is a rivalry that despise each other.
	And the the screen said that Obama was in Kansas City, he said he was in St. Louis.
	And then his daughter says, I'm Daddy, I don't understand this.
	So uh he says, I'm here with the Gerardo family here in St. Louis.
	The good news about all this is folks that Obama was broadcasting from a stranger's house and not a relative's hut.
	I mean, you you have to.
	You have to find the positives in uh in all of this.
	It's not looking good.
	Democrat national conventions begun.
	The poll numbers are bouncing, but not in the direction most people anticipated.
	The Rasmussen report's daily presidential tracking poll for today shows Obama with 44% of the vote.
	McCain also at 44.
	By the way, Gallup has it, 4545.
	When leaners are included in the Rasmussen report, it's still tied, Obama 46, McCain at 46.
	But yesterday with the leaners, Obama had a three-point advantage over McCain in the Rasmussen poll.
	So the Democrats are going backwards, ladies and gentlemen, as their convention opens up.
	It was funny to watch CNN last night to listen to David Gurgan, David Rodham Gurgen, and Carville just rip this convention to shreds.
	They want hate, they want Bush, they want all kinds of Carville's out there saying, you only got four nights out of message out there.
	I don't know what the message went out there tonight.
	Crazy, it's absolutely crazy.
	What are we talking about here?
	And he was he was exactly right.
	I mean, I've gone through the show prep today, and it's very difficult to find raves for Michelle Obama's speech.
	Uh from her hometown paper.
	She certainly didn't do any harm.
	And of course, the Clintons have their big night tonight.
	They're still, you know what?
	They're trying to put it a good deal together now to have the roll call in the morning, tomorrow more from the hotel.
	All the hotel rooms where the delegates are staying, so that this they don't want, and if they don't do that, if they do the roll call on the floor, they're gonna stop it maybe after New York, just so her her delegation can uh can vote for her.
	They're gonna stop it because they it's gonna show how damn close that whole thing was.
	Uh and then here's have you heard about the uh the attempted assassination plot that was uncovered on Obama?
	Denver cops discovered four guys that uh claim that they had a plan to assassinate Obama from a high vantage point on Thursday night.
	And I two things have struck me about this.
	The first thing we never hear about these threats that uh are made against the president, uh, but we do hear about this one on Obama.
	But I wonder, you know, did the cops have a warrant when they searched these guys?
	Did the cops go out, or did they invade these guys' privacy?
	Were any I mean, well, I mean, Obama doesn't want any any any warrantless searches of terrorists or any of that sort of thing, and yet it was the exact good police work, the Denver police force that discovered the plot.
	But under Obama and the Democrats' own beliefs, the cops could not have done what they did.
	They would have had to wait for probable cause and then move in.
	Let's go to the audio sound bites.
	Let's just get started here.
	Uh, ladies and gentlemen, we were gonna do a back and forth on on Michelle Obama.
	And this isn't this is important here because what we got last night was not the Michelle Obama that everybody knows.
	And I'm gonna tell you why.
	They are they're they're doing their level best.
	Uh, because this this this campaign, I t the the the whole notion of change and hope has probably gone out the window.
	Frank Lunz, who normally does these focus groups on television, did one in private where reporters were there, but it wasn't televised, with swing voters, quote unquote swing voters.
	And overwhelmingly, the swing voters said, I don't want to hear about change.
	And these were these were voters brought in with uh the attempt to learn what they you know might take for them to end up voting Obama.
	Last thing they said they want change.
	You know, I I hate to say it, but Michelle Obama made it clear last night what this is going to come down to.
	This is this is gonna come down to race.
	Here was Michelle Obama.
	Let's try this.
	Try this for profundity.
	Michelle Obama last night did not talk about her education at Harvard.
	She did not talk about her education at Princeton.
	Now, a lot of people are missing the point as to why.
	The real reason is most white people don't go to Princeton or Harvard, and they're trying to tone down this notion that they are elitists.
	Oh, yeah, we're just like you.
	We're just we're no different than you are, and that's that's not how this campaign has come up.
	This they've been they've been different in all kinds of ways.
	So I really do think that when this when it's all said and done, it's gonna come down to race.
	The Reverend Jackson is already comparing Obama to Jackie Robinson.
	He's Jackie Robinson.
	So let's just go to the audio sound bites.
	Let's get started.
	Here is Michelle last night at the Democrat National Convention.
	The young people across America serving our communities, teaching children, cleaning up neighborhoods, caring for the least among us each and every day.
	People like Hillary Clinton, who put those 18 million cracks in that glass ceiling so that our daughters and our sons can dream a little bigger and aim a little higher.
	She became a Stepford wife last night.
	She was a Stepford wife, and that's not who she is.
	A Stepford wife.
	She stays at home with the kids.
	She hangs around, she loves her brother and so forth.
	She didn't talk about her work.
	She didn't talk about any.
	Folks, this is a clear admission that the Democrats know full well that who these people really are will take them nowhere.
	But let's go back.
	August of 2007, a campaign event in Chicago.
	Uh Michelle had this to say during an introduction of her husband, Barack Obama, the Messiah.
	One of the things, the important aspects of this race is role modeling what good families should look like.
	And my view is that if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House.
	Wait a minute.
	What about all these great lines that you just had to say about Hillary?
	18 million cracks in a glass ceiling or what have you.
	By the way, if you noticed there's a story, I hate to keep changing subjects, but folks, I don't know where to start today.
	This this is just an explosion going off in my fertile mind.
	Have you seen there's an AP story or some story ripping Elizabeth Edwards to shreds for remaining silent On the story of her husband's affair.
	And you know the difference in the way Elizabeth Edwards and Hillary Clinton, these two stories that were treated is jaw-dropping.
	It is amazing.
	And I'll tell you why.
	Because with Hillary and Bill, it happened in the White House, and they had the White Power is what these people are all about, and holding on to it.
	Edwards is toast, so he's get rid of him.
	He's worth nothing to them now in terms of their quest for power.
	But it's just amazing.
	Striking the difference in which the drive-bys are treating Elizabeth Edwards and the way they treated Hillary Clinton.
	So, okay, here's Obama slamming Hillary, not being able to control her own house.
	How can you control the White House?
	You run the White House.
	That's a year ago.
	Here we do another side-by-side.
	The maid over Stepford Michelle claims now that she loves her country.
	We have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.
	And that is the thread that connects our hearts.
	That is the thread that runs through my journey and Barack's journey and so many other improbable journeys that have brought us here tonight, where the current of history meets this new tide of hope.
	And you see, that is why I love this country.
	Wait a minute, what is why you love the country?
	Journey and Barack's journey has been improbable journeys have brought a probable journey.
	Must have it four or five times.
	Obligation to fight for the world as it should be.
	Okay, you've heard this, but let's go back to February 18th in Madison, Wisconsin.
	For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.
	Now, that's the unscripted Michelle.
	The Michelle of Stepford wife uh uh behavior patterns last night was scripted.
	I mean, I what what would you believe?
	I mean, if we are to accept her speech at face value last night, why would she say this was a downright mean country a year ago, six months ago?
	Why would she say that this was the first time in her life, this campaign that she was proud of her country, given she said how much she loves and always have loved this country last night.
	Which is it?
	You know what what made her so angry when she had this beautiful family and was so blessed.
	She loves her parents, she loves her brother, she loves her husband, she loves her husband's half brothers who lives in huts, she loves her kids, she loves her country.
	What the hell happened?
	We have the audio of her written speeches, we have the quotes.
	It's not like she'd been misquoted, so she would trot it out there to have us think that she never had an angry moment in her life.
	What happened?
	I don't understand.
	Of course I understand.
	I'm understand this like every square inch of my gloriously naked body.
	We not finished.
	Uh this is last night, the made over Michelle Obama, Stepford wife, uh discussing the American dream.
	It was the greatest gift a child could receive, never doubting for a single minute that you're loved and cherished and have a place in this world.
	And thanks to their faith and their hard work, we both were able to go to college.
	So I know firsthand from their lives and mine that the American dream endures.
	Look at in the end, this is all good.
	It's just you don't hear this from Democrats much.
	This that's why people are perplexed.
	But let's go back to January this year, Columbia, South Carolina.
	We don't like being pushed outside of our comfort zones.
	Sometimes it's easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions.
	It makes you feel justified in your ignorance.
	That's America.
	So the challenge for us is are we ready for change?
	Okay, does that sound like a genuine Obama versus the Stepford uh Michelle or versus the Stepford Michelle from Land?
	It does.
	And of course, this is not twenty years ago where we're not here to draw these contrasts.
	The drive bys will not go back and do all these uh side by side ABs, that was then this is now type presentations.
	But all of this is important in terms of raising questions about who these people are because their problem, their problem, ladies and gentlemen, is they've got nothing to say about Obama and why he should be president.
	They're no reason.
	That resume is as thin as a wheat thin fefer.
	I mean, there's uh there's there's little to say About him specifically that's related to him being president.
	They can talk about hope, they can talk about change, but at this point, the more they speak this way, the more undecided are seeing vapidness.
	And it was dull last night.
	Did you see when they shot some of the crowd shots?
	I mean, it was there was boredom in there.
	There was there was uh there was and there was some anger and there was uh there was fear.
	His association's not to be spoken of anymore.
	Bill Ayers, but that's oh, this is another juicy thing that's happened.
	One of these 527s has run an ad on Bill Ayers, and it's drawn the Obama camp out, and they are livid about it.
	And it goes to show something I've always said, you know, when you got a bunch of critics and they criticize you, if you respond to them, the critics think they've got you.
	It must be something there, and that's exactly what the reaction today is to the Obama camp responding to a campaign ad questioning his relationship with uh with Bill Ayers.
	Now, on um on the MSNBC's morning show today, Mika Bzinsky stepped in it.
	She slipped up.
	She knows that that was a phony Michelle Obama last night, a Stepford Michelle, and this um this is what she said.
	I like the tough off the cuff Michelle Obama.
	You would have been saying how that could have been a risk.
	There you have the the network that's in the tank for this team, Mika Buzinski saying if the real Obama uh Michelle had come out, you would have been saying how that could have been a risk.
	Quick timeout.
	Back after this, my friends, don't go away.
	Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity just by being here.
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	By the way, the official Obama criticizer, both snerdily coming up uh on the program in this hour.
	Oh, Frank Lunz, we just heard from Frank Luntz.
	He said, in addition to this whole notion that swing voters do not like this whole change message.
	Lunz says that uh he found that accountability crushes change with these swing voters, and that he thinks McCain could gain on Obama in that area.
	When uh when when Lunz's participants were given the f uh the phrase change, the swing voters said change from what?
	How much is this change gonna cost me?
	So you if if the Democrats get hold of this information, uh, and it's not guaranteed that they will, even if they are told this, it's not guaranteed they'll believe it.
	Uh if they don't get rid of this change message, they apparently are in uh in trouble.
	Now, here's more on this Elizabeth Edwards story.
	This is an AP story, two weeks after, of course, the devastating revelation uh that set her husband into political exile.
	Elizabeth Edwards is not getting the steady sympathy usually afforded to a woman scorned.
	Instead, she's faced criticism from dedicated Democrats who think she was too willing to keep the affair a secret to help Edward's political ambitions as well as her own.
	At a time when she was expected to hold a prominent role in pushing an agenda of improved health care for Americans, she stands silent.
	And while fellow Democrats converge in Denver to nominate Obama Edwards remains in seclusion in North Carolina, and they quote a Raleigh-based Democrat consultant named Brad Crone.
	I think she's complicit.
	Obviously, she knew.
	I mean, well, while she's the victim, she clearly didn't stand in the way of the cover up.
	Uh my friends, this is quite devastating.
	And it's just it's striking to see the difference with which or in which Hillary Clinton was treated and the way Elizabeth Edwards is being treated.
	So why isn't she being afforded at minimum the same pass that Hillary was?
	Reason is very simple.
	Liberals are power hungry.
	Bill Clinton was president.
	They wanted to keep their power.
	Edwards ran, he lost, he's expendable.
	Therefore, so's his wife.
	See, Hillary was not only complacent, I mean, to show you the difference in fairness here in the coverage of these two women.
	Hillary was not only complacent, she led the effort to cover up for her husband.
	She led the effort to smear the women that her husband had abused.
	And she attacked away at will.
	Elizabeth Edwards never did any of this.
	She just stood silent, and now Democrats are mad at her for helping facilitate the affair.
	So some of the same people who admire Hillary for her cunning back then and support her for president now are trashing Elizabeth Edwards.
	You gotta love this.
	You couldn't write this script.
	Do you know the Democrats even had to put the Pledge of Allegiance on television screens inside the convention so the delegates could read the words?
	I pledge allegiance to the Oh yeah, flag.
	They actually put on teleprompters and screens the Pledge of Allegiance, the text, so the delegates could read it.
	People have to understand a liberal mind.
	I, of course, do, ladies and gentlemen.
	I understand it as well as anybody who is not a liberal can.
	The liberal mind does not work like the mind of a regular person.
	Their obsession with power and control is what drives them at all times.
	Look at the cities they run.
	Look at New York, look at San Francisco, look at all the cities liberals run with unchecked power, and look at all of the controls on people's behavior that there are in those cities.
	Look at their support for Obama.
	There is no sane movement in a in a sane environment that would back a man with his credentials, such as they are, for the highest office in the land.
	A redd radical leftist, he hasn't accomplished a thing, but through him, they believe they can gain back the White House and impose with a Democrat Congress an agenda of massive spending, massive taxation, and massive control of populace.
	Hell, folks, if they thought Daffy Duck could win the Democrat nomination, they'd nominate him.
	Welcome back.
	It's Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I uh want to share with you just that a hunch, a gut feeling I have.
	As you know, I always automatically genetically go against the conventional wisdom.
	The conventional wisdom is that the Democrats are gonna just score big.
	They're gonna run the House and Senate with majorities that have never been seen in 35 or 40 years, and they're gonna have the White House.
	And I'm telling you, I have this.
	I've got the I've got this sense that this is gonna blow up on these people.
	This whole election, not just the White House, but I think we are pre- I the way things are falling out here.
	I think we're gonna get a huge the Democrats are just gonna be stunned again.
	I think it's gonna be a bad election season for them.
	And this is not the first time I said that.
	I did a speech out in Aspen a couple weeks ago, and I assured the group in that uh in that speech that felt the same way.
	It's not just because of what's happening at this convention, it's because who these people are, all this identity politics, all this phoniness, all this marketing and packaging, all this inability to be who they really are, because that would make it even worse.
	I mean, let's let's be real.
	Michelle Obama was out there last night to present a vision of the Obama family that makes white people comfortable with voting for them.
	That was her real job.
	That was her only real job.
	And she she might have done that as as well as she could have, but that was the gig.
	Now, what does that tell you?
	What if she has to go out to present a vision that makes white people comfortable with voting for them?
	And what does that tell you that they think of their own campaign?
	But here's how they're gonna blow it.
	They're gonna end up slobbering on Thursday night over Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in that speech, the anniversary, which we have every year, by the way.
	That that speech has an anniversary every year, but this is the 45th anniversary of it.
	And of course, this is the year Obama happens to get the nomination.
	So after Michelle My Bell goes out and does her best last night to, hey, you know, we're just like you, folks.
	We we uh didn't go to week and went to Harvard and all, but I'm gonna tell you that because most of you haven't been to Harvard.
	We're just like you.
	I love my brother, I all my little girls, it's uh the only reason I live, so forth, and so love my husband.
	We're just we're just like you.
	But Thursday night comes around and they're gonna trot out Al Gore.
	Al Gore is supposedly going to introduce Obama on Thursday night at the at Mile High Stadium In Denver.
	And that's that's problematic.
	Everywhere Gore goes, the opposite of his global warming predictions happen.
	You know, Gore will schedule a go a global warming seminar somewhere, and it will snow unexpectedly, or there will be a record low temperature.
	Now there are people, and I don't know who they are.
	I read this a couple weeks ago that are actually having prayers.
	They're doing rain dances and so forth, trying to create a deluge.
	Thursday night in Denver.
	Gore showing up may get it.
	Gore showing up, there may be some rain, and it might be really cold with the architect of global warming there.
	But then he's going to come out, Obama is, and they're going to go overboard on this Martin Luther King business.
	And that's a dangerous road for them to go down, given what Michelle Obama did last night, which is try to present a vision that makes white people comfortable with voting for herself and for Obama.
	I mean, the drive by's even last night, I look at you watch this.
	If you if you why you saw the same thing I saw, the drive-bys kept showing shots of the delegates.
	And some of them looked bored.
	Some of them looked angry.
	Some of the black delegates had tears in their eyes, and this, you know, this is going to get worse on Thursday.
	And this is this is most the American people are not obsessed with race.
	But the Democrat Party is, and its drive-by media accomplices are because they are they're just obsessed with race identity politics.
	That's how they see people not as individuals.
	They see them as groups, they see them as victims.
	And so whatever success Michelle might have had last night in getting away from race and the fear factor, you just know that on Thursday night, if they're not careful, they're gonna come up and they're gonna they're just they're gonna go way overboard on this.
	Carville was right last night.
	If there was a message, last night it would take a lot of digging through to find.
	But this is the overall problem that they have.
	They can't have a message.
	They're all over the place.
	They have the black man running with his angry black wife.
	They have to appear white in order, like the cleavers, in order to calm the majority of people to vote for them.
	But then on Thursday, they're gonna be all over Dark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and they're gonna slip because they can't help it.
	It's reflexive.
	They're gonna slip back into this identity politics business, and we shall overcome, and we're victims, and it ain't right, but we're about to make it right and so forth, and people are gonna go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	You know, we're we're doing a presidential election here.
	It's the same thing that happened with the Wellstone Memorial.
	And you know, when when Clinton was, you know, Clinton and Hillary were crashing all these funerals of of uh black leaders, civil rights leaders that had died, going in and making it about them.
	So they've got a big problem.
	They're trying to present themselves as a new party of faith.
	You can't do that with Nancy Pelosi out there, by the way, she has been upbraided by uh a couple of priests in Denver and one in Washington.
	You knew this had to happen.
	She is she has been spanked.
	She's uh and these people don't normally react to these kinds of things, but this they had no choice.
	So here's a party trying to present itself as a newly found faith party that they understand people's values, and their nominee believes in infanticide, and uh and and and their their and their speaker of the House has restated Catholic church policy.
	They cannot present a tough foreign policy stand because of their flip-flops on the war in Iraq.
	There really is no message.
	There is no message.
	The message is that Obama is black, and that's what they've got, and that's what it's always been, and that's what frankly they're relying on to pick up a certain degree of guilty white liberal voters.
	Now, the Lib Media, some of it, I I I had a tough time finding rave reviews today in the newspapers.
	Television was a little bit different, but they're pretending to be inspired by Obama's or Michelle Obama speech last night, which again, learn it, love it, live it.
	This was an effort to portray her as an average mother.
	And I'm sure she is a wonderful mother.
	But what of all the hateful things that she said about her own country?
	She said those off script.
	She said what was in her heart then.
	Is this all supposed to be forgotten now?
	Yep, that's exactly right.
	We're supposed to forget everything we know about Barack and Michelle Obama from last night on.
	Everything prior to that we are supposed to forget.
	We're now supposed to follow the Democrat line as promoted in the drive-by media and forevermore see Michelle Obama as just another mother.
	But she too was friends with Jeremiah Wright.
	She too was friends with Bill Ayers.
	She was friends with Tony Rezco.
	And I thought, frankly, you know, a little surprised last night.
	I thought I thought Michelle was an example of a professional, independent, intelligent woman who deserved to be measured in her own right.
	Now she's just a mom and a wife.
	Do you realize what she did for feminism last night?
	She erased it.
	She erased feminism.
	She didn't talk about herself at all.
	She was supposed to go out there and tell people why they should vote for Obama, and she didn't even do that.
	She said, We're just nice people.
	We've got the white picket fence.
	Boy, by Tony Briscoe, we've got two kids in the backyard, 2.8.
	We've, you know, we're snow cones and so forth on Sunday afternoon in the park, we're just like you.
	She did not talk about any of her achievements.
	She didn't talk about where she went to college, she didn't talk about any of that stuff, set feminism back.
	A mile.
	So the purpose, obviously, is to get us to look away from her record, to look away from her past statements, and to embrace the rewrite of her history.
	And the same will be done with her husband on Thursday, and frankly, it's been done for the last year or more.
	But he has stepped in it by responding to this ad the 527 group ran on Bill Ayers.
	I'll tell you about that here in just a second.
	But we're supposed to ignore Obama's associations.
	We're supposed to ignore his church pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
	We're supposed to ignore his past with Saulinski guidance in agitating community people.
	We're supposed to ignore some revealing passages in his books.
	We're supposed to ignore that he has half brothers living on twelve dollars a year in a hut in Africa.
	He's now a clean slate.
	Michelle does a clean slate starting last night, on which his handlers and lib media are recreating him.
	That is what they are attempting to do is recast all this hope and change, all this stuff that happened before last night of the Obamas, it's supposed to be gone now.
	We're just we're supposed to forget it.
	But here's the flaw.
	Why did she set feminism back?
	Why did she not talk about her own genuine achievements, her own independence?
	Because she went to Harvard.
	She went to Princeton, and the point of last night was to make white people feel comfortable with her in Barack, but most people, most white people don't go to Hartford, Harvard, and most white people don't go to Princeton.
	And so they ran the risk of coming across as elitists if they talked about that because they're just like us.
	But they're not.
	Most of us don't have pastors for twenty years like Jeremiah Wright.
	We don't run around with unrepentant.
	Terrorists.
	We don't have the associations in our lives that these two have.
	Brief timeout.
	We'll be back and continue with much more on the Rush Lindbaugh program right after this.
	Yeah, I uh I I thought I was moved by the Ted Kennedy uh appearance.
	And I'll have more on that as the program unfolds.
	We just can't possibly squeeze all this in in one hour, folks.
	But I do have to tell you that the Kennedy was there to say goodbye and to pass the torch.
	They were the Kennedy was devoted to recalling a past that never was.
	And we're going to pass the torch and the Kennedys to the Obamas, but the problem is that Clintons are in the middle trying to grab the torch.
	They're doing nothing, ladies and gentlemen, to get out of the way of Obama during this convention.
	It's a mess.
	It's still a powder keg.
	All the dry buys are talking about it, but now after reasoned criticism delivered by your host, we now turn to the official Obama criticizer of the EIB network both snerdily.
	This is Bosnerly, official Barack criticizer for the EIB network, certified black enough to criticize, with a blend of imported and domestic 100% fortified slave blood.
	I have a statement.
	Mr. Obama.
	Well, actually, Mrs. Obama.
	Although your husband issued an edict prohibiting criticism of you during this campaign, I have to comment on your performance last night.
	It was evident, my dear, that you have been handled.
	We did not see the real Michelle, the one that that could define or give context to all the things we've heard from you during the campaign.
	That image you would have us buy last night didn't explain away.
	How come, as an adult, you're only proud for the first time to be an American or or why this is a mean country?
	The I love this country line, it was a little trite.
	It was a must read, a must say.
	And and that line with about Mrs. Clinton, we all know she tried to knife your husband in the back all during the campaign.
	Look, black women have a different perception of America.
	You could have explained why you think what you think without hurting yourself or your husband.
	You could have cleared things up for everybody, but instead, you papered things over with a nondescript presentation that could have come from Martha Stewart's America.
	I could go on, but instead, how about a detailed analysis for EIB brothers and sisters in the hood?
	Yo, Shell.
	Let me give you your props first, yo.
	You was looking laced last night, yo girl, you got it like that, no doubt.
	I almost could hope the brother could win so I could scope you out for the next four years, you know, but it ain't that kind of party here.
	Check it out, Shelley.
	What was up with you last night, girl?
	The big lights all up on you, and you come out fronting instead of breaking it down, yo.
	Ever since you broke about, you know, being proud for the first time, you've been taking heat.
	Last night was your chance, yo.
	You said America was mean, everybody went off on you.
	Last night you could explain it.
	Okay, you could explain also why they hid you out for so long.
	You get all the FaceTime, what do we get?
	Instead of you breaking it off to everybody, you could have told them, like, yo, listen, yeah, sometimes I'm mad.
	Check it out.
	If you came from where I came from, you'd be mad too, okay?
	School's all messed up, brothers can't get no jobs, yo.
	I got out, I got to Princeton, my hubby, yo, he went to Harvard.
	We kind of broke, but everybody else, you know, they ain't living large, okay?
	Yeah, I'm mad.
	Y'all be mad too if this was going on in your neighborhood.
	Okay, criminals running all up and down the street.
	Come on, yo, it ain't like that up in White Landia where Hillary live, okay?
	But no, what did you do?
	Matt, look, you could have even said, you know what?
	The hospitals, yo, they even like, you know, throwing old black people out on the street.
	Oh, wait, I'm sorry, yo, you couldn't go there, right?
	But look, you a strong black sister, yo, you come from our culture.
	You were out there fronting like you, Michelle Partridge.
	Everything is cute.
	Okay?
	Come on, you could have told them, like, for instance, Fourth of July, yo, man, we ain't down with that, okay.
	Juneteenth is when we're free.
	But that don't mean we don't love America.
	Everybody's down with this, you know.
	Okay, look, Michelle, you Obama Shorty.
	You got the slave blood, he don't.
	You're supposed to understand what it is, and you were supposed to break it down for us.
	What did you do?
	You were fronting, girl.
	Fake.
	Okay?
	But like I said, sister, you was looking laced.
	You know, and you know that counts for something.
	That concludes this statement.
	That is the official Obama criticizer of the EIB network.
	Bo Snertley.
	A brief timeout, we'll come back and uh grab a couple phone calls before we have to close out the hour.
	Sit tight.
	Uh, number of questions that I've checked uh during the break here in the uh 24-7 email inbox.
	A lot of questions, uh, Mr. Snertley, uh, and I know the answer.
	Sounds like your official criticism made it sound like the people of the hood didn't buy the act last night.
	Thought and and and will it hurt, you know, to get some of the people in the hood, you know, thinking of selling out on us.
	Yeah, it's it's not gonna happen at great numbers.
	Some people are gonna think if it keeps up.
	But uh at any rate, here's we much the same view, I think, here from Houston, Texas.
	Mark, you're up first on the phones today.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hi.
	I listened to the speech last night, and I I have to say I uh I liked it as speeches go.
	Uh matter of fact, I thought it was uh very very much a Republican speech.
	She sounded very Republican.
	Uh it seemed to me she had kind of like a uh Ronald Reaganist's Condolea Rice thing going, and it looked real good, you know, if you weigh just the speech.
	And that's it.
	Yeah, I you know, I I it's it's I try to watch these things two ways at the same time.
	I try to watch these speeches with my brain, obviously, uh my most important organ.
	And uh I I then watch the speech with my heart, and I did that with Teddy Kennedy, too.
	And on the surface, on the surface, uh Michelle My Bell was the highlight of the night.
	They structured the convention horribly last night when the networks joined coverage.
	Do you know who was speaking?
	Jim Leach.
	Jim Leach is so boring, he would make a freight train take a dirt road.
	Jim Leach is a Republican moderate from Iowa.
	Jim Leach looks dead when he is his most active.
	And he was the guy that people saw when the networks joined coverage at 10 o'clock Eastern last night.
	A total, total mess.
	But on the surface of it, you'd have to say that that uh that Michelle gave a good speech uh and it was inspiring to a lot of people.
	But if you have any history, and that's what we're here for, is to present history to people, you realize that's not the Michelle Obama that we've come to know and see over these many, many uh months in in the past.

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