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Oct. 20, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 20, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, folks, how about our boy Joe Biden?
Hey, stand up, Joe.
Tell us again what's going to happen when Obama gets elected.
You hear what Biden said?
Biden had he was out in.
Where was he?
Was uh it was in um doesn't matter where he was.
ABC's reporting that Joe Biden is warning now of an international crisis.
Uh, the world, multiple nations will test Obama just as JFK was tested.
The first six months of his administration, Biden is guaranteeing trouble under Obama.
We could also assume that McCain would not cause such a test uh to occur from leaders around the world.
But Biden's out there saying multiple countries, he said uh your influence within the community to stand with Obama because it's not going to be apparent initially, it's not going to be apparent that we're right in how we deal with whatever it is.
And he said, I could give you five or six scenarios.
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Love Joe Biden.
Says it'd be patriotic to pay higher taxes, and that this country is going to face an international crisis or two only if Obama's elected.
We will not face an international crisis, according to Biden, if McCain is elected.
See, under McCain, what we would get is lower taxes and apparently a far more peaceful world.
McCain's been tested.
No one will screw with him, according to Biden.
Well, you know what a gaff is is when a politician tells the truth.
So we're gonna get with uh with with Obama, we're gonna get higher taxes, we're gonna get new attacks on our country.
Biden says the world is going to test Obama.
What's it gonna be?
China taking Taiwan, China taking North Korea, Russia taking over a bordering country or two, Israel being wiped off the map, all the above, what is it?
Oh, Biden's guaranteeing something like this.
And he says it's a fair price for electing an inexperienced squirrel who wants Acorn to run our elections and can't wait to surrender in Iraq.
And remember, folks, a squirrel's just a rat with better PR.
Oh, this just doesn't, it just Colin Powell said that Biden would be ready to be president on day one.
Does Powell agree that the price for electing Obama's a world crisis?
Biden's starting this.
Biden is stating this as an as a fact beyond dispute.
He says it's a guarantee that we are to mark his words.
Now, can you imagine if I said, without Biden having had said this first, if I had said that the election of Barack Obama will cause a guaranteed international crisis.
Can you imagine?
I mean, the drive-by's are in a tizzy over my little Colin Powell comment yesterday to Jonathan Martin to the political.
Can you imagine what they would do if I would come out before Biden and said that what Biden had said?
I would be taking politics to the lowest common denominator.
I would be a fearmonger.
I would be irresponsible.
The fairness doctrine would be needed to shut me up.
Well, I'm going to endorse Biden.
Biden's exactly right about this.
First time in a long time I'm going to agree with Biden.
He's exactly right.
We are going to get tested here.
Obama's going to get tested.
And it's going to be but see, I thought what's amazing to me about Biden's statement, ladies and gentlemen, is I thought the election of Obama was going to make the world love us again.
I thought I thought I thought we're going to repair this busted image that we have all around the world, and the moment Obama's elected.
No, we don't have to wait till he's inaugurated.
From the moment he is elected, the world is going to love us again.
They're going to want to kiss us everywhere they can.
They're going to be so happy.
And here's Biden.
Saying, oh yeah, get ready, folks.
This young man, he's got what it takes.
I love this guy.
This guy can handle it.
Speaking of Obama.
But he's going to get tested.
We're going to get tested.
I can guarantee you.
And we're going to need your support.
We're going to need your support in there because it's not going to be obvious we're doing the right thing at first.
Yeah.
More details on this as the uh as the program unfolds.
Now, uh, there was a story.
Where's the Financial Times?
What's the data yesterday?
U.S. faces worst recession in 26 years.
Unemployment could go to seven and a half percent.
Uh it's looking bad out there.
And then I ran a I ran across this uh little story that just cleared the wires here about an hour and a half ago.
It's from New York, the Associated Press Obama.
The economy's health improved for the first time in five months in September as supplier deliveries and new orders strengthened, according to the conference board.
They said its monthly forecast of future economic activity rose 0.3%, a better reading than the 0.2% drop expected by Wall Street economists.
Six of the ten indicators that make up the leading index increased in September, including the money supply, the index of consumer expectations as well.
Uh worst recession in 26.
What is it what it means is that somebody at AP screwed up putting out this story the day after the worst recession in 26 years story came out.
That's what it means, Snerdley.
How the hell?
Don't tell anybody about this, for God's sake.
Said to disregard the story about the conference board.
That's a totally messed up story.
It doesn't fit the narrative here that we're going to hell on a handbasket, that we're in a toilet, there's no flusher until Obama's elected, and he becomes the plunger.
By the way, Joe the plumber and all the do you think Obama could fix his own toilet if it was stopped up?
Just a little question.
So, ladies and gentlemen.
Let me uh an excellent question posed, ladies and gentlemen by the official program observer, Mr. Snerdley.
You mean the Messiah uses toilets?
I have to grant you.
Uh there you're right.
A slip of the well, uh a mental I forgot, yeah.
Not showing proper respect.
Not only well, never mind, I'll I'll just leave it at that.
I'm I'm minding my own business yesterday.
Went to uh went to Green Bay for the Indianapolis Colts Green Bay Packers, stayed out in Appleton at La Radison, uh, which is uh which is where the visiting teams who play the Packers stay, the Colts were in there, went in and had dinner at Lombardi's on Saturday night.
Well, just fabulous.
Uh when it was some people from Gulf Stream and it ran into a bunch of Colts front office people.
It was just a great, great, great time.
And we're up pretty late late on Saturday night because we don't have to go to the stadium till one o'clock central time, because it's a 3.15 game central time.
So I get up on Sunday morning and and uh little coffee sitting there, fire up the computer, start doing a little show prep, get a head start.
Minding my own business.
I mean, I'm not harming anybody.
They don't even know I'm in the hotel.
I'm registered under a fake name.
So I fire up the Drudge page and I see that Colin Powell has endorsed the most merciful Barack Obama.
And then I see some of the things that Powell said.
He said it wasn't about race, and he said he just he would be very have difficulty with any more Republican Supreme Court appointments.
So I'm making notes of this, and out of the blue comes an email from Jonathan Martin at the Politico.
Hey Rush.
You got anything to say about this?
I wrote him and said, Jonathan, look, I'm here in Green Bay for the Colts and the Packers.
I don't have a lot of time, and I've just fired off a couple little thoughts, a couple little paragraphs, and here they are.
I said, Secretary Powell says his endorsement's not about race.
Okay, fine.
What I'm doing now, Jonathan, is researching Powell's past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal white candidates that he has endorsed.
I'll let you know what I come up with.
Then the next paragraph I sent to Jonathan Martin at Politico said, as for Powell's statement of concern that uh he would be have difficulty with two more Republican Supreme Court nominees.
I uh was unaware that his he had dislike for John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, and Antonin Scalia.
I guess he also regrets Ronald Reagan, making him a four-star general.
I guess he also regrets George Bush, making him Secretary of State.
I guess he also regrets George H.W. Bush naming him chairman of Joint Chiefs.
I guess he's also upset that a Republican appointed his son to head the FCC.
Yeah, let's hear it for transformational figures.
Because Powell had said Obama's a transformational figure, and yet Colin Powell's who he is and is a household name because of Republicans.
So I fired that off and uh forgot about it.
And the next thing I know, into my email comes a Google alert.
Martin got that thing up in five minutes, and it's all over the internet with Google and Drudges linked to it.
So I you know, I hit the shower, I get ready for the game, head down, get on the bus, head on over to Green Bay for the game.
Apparently, all hell is breaking loose over this, and I'm not even aware of it, because of course, you know, Jonathan said, Well, I really envy you your Sundays.
He said, I had tickets to the Redskins game today, but I can't go because of this Powell thing.
I said, Jonathan, somebody has to enjoy life, and it's me.
And don't worry, John, I'll cover you next week because I'm going to Pittsburgh next week for the Giants.
And then after that, I'm going to Indianapolis for the uh for the Patriots.
So I'll cheer for you.
Just tell me which teams you like.
So we go to the game, a fabulous time at the game.
Just.
And I picked the Packers in my little pool.
And yeah, we had one of the Cowboy fans snurdly walk in today and Snerdley says, I look at how you, oh, I've been better.
And I figure it's the Powell endorsement or something to do with the campaign.
He's a bit out of shape about the Cowboys.
A lot of Cowboys fans have been out of shape about the Cowboys.
At any rate, uh, then got home last night about flew flew home after the game.
I guess we got home about uh rolled in it, 1045 or so, probably got got into the house at 11.30.
Um, no, I I still wasn't aware how much it had blown up.
I mean, I did a little work when I went home and I went up to bed.
It was a long, taxing, exhausting day.
I'll tell you what, it is tough physically going to a football game.
I can't imagine playing in one.
I got home last night feeling like I had played in the game.
So I get up this morning and uh talk to Cookie.
Cookie says, okay, here's a preview of the soundbite roster, and lo and behold, the media had a cow over the.
They went and the folks must have struck a nerve on this because everybody in the drive-by media has something snarky to say about my two little paragraphs to Jonathan Martin at the politico regarding the Powell endorsement.
Now there's something else interesting, but I got one thing wrong.
It was not a Republican that nominated his son, Michael Powell, to head the FCC.
Michael Powell, by the way, has not only endorsed McCain, Colin Powell's son has endorsed McCain, he is campaigning for him.
Colin Powell's son is debating Obama's surrogates on communications issues.
What actually happened was, and this is even more fascinating, what actually happened was, and my friend Professor Hazlitt informed me of this, it was McCain who got Michael Powell appointed to the FCC by Clinton in order to forge a relationship with his father, Colin Powell, as was reported at the time.
So McCain went out of the way, went to Clinton, said, please nominate Michael Powell to the FCC.
Clinton did it.
This was an effort by McCain to forge a continued relationship.
We've also heard, I can't substantiate this, we've also heard that the reason that uh that the Senator McCain has had Jeremia Wright off limits is in hopes of getting the Powell endorsement himself.
But one of the interesting things to point out about this is that who is Powell?
I mean, what what if if you if you stop and think of how Powell is uh characterized uh by the driveways, he's the epitome of today's moderate, right?
And that moderate, Mr. Powell, that kind of person is the target of McCain's campaign, was it not?
And so we see, Ladies and gentlemen, just how I mean he gets his kid on the FCC with Clinton to forge a relation, and bam.
I don't know if McCain thought Powell was bought, but if so, it's obvious Powell doesn't stay bought for very long.
Now here's the great thing.
Remember, this is fascinating when you look at it this way.
After Iraq and a United Nations Security Council where General Powell went up there and showed the pictures of all the WMDs and so forth, Powell was bad.
Powell's sellout.
Powell was horrible.
And this is crucial, because this is why Powell needed to resuscitate his reputation.
He knew that Armitage had leaked Scooter Libby's name.
He knew that Scooter Libby had nothing to do with this.
And he stood mute, ladies and gentlemen.
I'll never forget Powell threatening with running for president back in 1995.
Remember that?
And he wouldn't identify what party he was from.
He had these approval ratings in the 70s.
He knew if he's if he idented himself as a identified himself as a Republican or a Democrat, then he'd lose some of the numbers.
He wouldn't take a position on abortion, for example.
And I guess everybody on our side was so excited about Colin Powell.
I said, folks, don't you think it matters whether or not he's a Republican or Democrat?
He won't tell us.
So anyway, Powell was bad after the United Nations.
Now Powell is good.
Massive campaign spending was corrupt.
Now, since Obama's doing it just fine.
Voter fraud, why that was that was anti-civil rights.
Now voter fraud is pro-civil rights.
Experience doesn't matter in Obama's case, but it's now the reason why Governor Palin is not qualified to be president.
And on and on and on.
The pretzels that the media and the left are willing to twist themselves into to push this dummy over the finish lines amazing, folks.
Speaking here of uh of Obama, but yeah, I I just I'm I'm I I look at I look at so many things.
You know what people asking me, Rush, why is Palin so hated?
Why is it that people like Peggy Noonan and Christopher Buckley and the Fox, some of the Fox All-Stars, and folks, it's an elitist thing.
It really, it's it's it's an intellectual thing.
It really, it really boils down to something that I've I've been commenting on it for a little while here.
It really troubles me.
I'll tell you what as we come back because if I don't take commercial break now, we'll miss one, and I can't do that.
We'll be stay with us.
Okay, we're back.
Here's what it is, folks.
This is very, very simple.
I have I'll tell you when this first hit me, and it probably hit you a little sooner than it did me.
When I when I travel around the country four years ago, three years ago, shortly after the Iraq war started, I ran into people from uh from all political spectrums who were just they did they didn't like Bush simply because they think he couldn't talk.
He wasn't articulate.
And to them that made him seem stupid.
And so when people who know Bush, and I, as a powerful influential member of the media, M1 who knows Bush, would tell people, you have no idea what you're talking about.
The guy is sharp as attack, people that know him personally.
Well, he doesn't come across that way.
And then Obama comes along and I see Christopher Buckley, who who says things like, Well, I read his books.
Chrissy may not have written one of them, but beside the point.
Uh I read his books.
Very thoughtful guy.
Very, very thoughtful guy.
Somebody that eloquent, somebody that able to write so well, has to have a good mind.
And so I'm I'm for Obama.
You gotta go with the mind.
And then they then they mentioned Palin as being some sort of trailer trash hick.
They don't like her accent, they don't like the fact she lives G's off of some of her words like morning instead of morning, then they just don't like that.
And then Chris Buckley said, but you know, even even I just, if he goes lefty, if he goes lefty when he's elected, I'll have a problem with that.
I just read this on stunt.
If he goes lefty.
So what it is, folks, there is an alignment of elites taking place, pseudo-intellectuals, who simply do not want a they don't think McCain's can speak.
McCain McCain can speak.
They don't think McCain's articulate.
They think of Obama as one of them, even though he has ideas diametrically opposed to theirs, he's still smart.
He's he's cool, he's eloquent, he's elegant, he's calm, uh, and and he represents us.
He makes it look like Americans have elected somebody smart.
And of course, Palin uh she just she doesn't fit that mold.
This This is why there's so many defections on our side.
And I and there's another reason, too.
You know, it's directly traceable to this to this Powell endorsement.
Look at this.
If Powell had endorsed McCain, you know what would have happened, not a Brazil, the other black elites in the Democrat Party would never have forgiven him.
What this was all about Powell and race.
Nothing about the nation and its welfare.
Well, he said it's not about race.
I'd say, okay, show me all of the inexperienced white liberals you've endorsed.
It was not about race.
Of course, everybody's having a tin.
Wait till you hear the sound bites are coming up after the next break.
So what happened, General Powell?
He he evolved over time into a calculating Washington insider who speaks incessantly to the media.
He seeks to portray himself in a good light at the expense of others.
I mean, he did he did great damage to the Bush administration.
It it stuns me.
It really does.
It stuns me how General Powell and others can back a man whose judgment has been so flawed for most of his career, who has been so out of the mainstream, yet they find Palin so unqualified.
None of us are buying this nonsense.
What's happening here, Powell and some of the other people on our side, they are positioning themselves to perhaps get positions in Obama's campaign.
And in fact, Obama has said that Powell will serve in his administration.
It's what it's about here, folks.
Now, folks, one thing I don't want to get sidetracked on here, by the way, welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
This is really not about Colin Powell, but I'm gonna I'm gonna spend some detail on this because of the drive-by's reaction.
Well, I know what uh Colin Powell is not the story here.
Obama is the story.
And you know, one thing about I've been thinking about this Joe the Plumber business, and and everybody's pointing out that uh it's not what Joe the Plumber asked Obama, it's what Obama answered.
That he wants to spread the wealth around, but it's actually even worse than that.
It's now about how quickly team Obama was able to shut down Joe the Plumber, to mock him, to make fun of him, to investigate him, to demonize him, to virtually Tony Soprano him.
They did everything but throw him in the East River with concrete blocks tied to his feet.
And yet all of these associations that Obama has, they have no interest in exposing, at least right now.
But the issue, the issue itself is even bigger than Joe.
It's bigger than Obama's lame answer.
And it's even bigger than Obama's attack machine.
Because the left tells us, and Obama tells us they're only gonna go after the super rich.
That's who's gonna pay the tax increases, that's who's gonna be gotten even with, right?
Well, who's Joe the plumber?
Joe the plumber is just an average ordinary American with dreams, and who'd they go after?
They went after Joe the plumber.
That tells us what they're gonna do.
They're gonna go after achievers.
It doesn't matter what your income, if you achieve, you're gonna pay for it.
If you dream of achieving, they're gonna find you, and they're gonna come up with policies to make sure that you give up that quest real fast.
So you might say, okay, first they came after the super rich, then they came after the rich.
And now they're going after the achievers, and that's what this episode with Joe the Plumber shows.
You might think it's just about trying to, you know, silence and discredit a guy who embarrassed Obama, but it's more than that.
And it wasn't just the media.
It was Obama's team, too, that set out to destroy this guy.
So you're sitting out there thinking Obama only gonna go after the super rich or the rich.
But you can see right in front of your very eyes, they're gonna go after the achievers.
And if you say nothing, when they eventually get to you, there's not going to be anybody else to defend you.
Everybody else is gonna have been taken care of.
Now back to General Powell.
Uh I I I just want to button this up because the drive-by's had a tizzy over my allegation that his nomination was about race.
It well, let me say it louder.
And let me say it even more plainly.
It was totally about race.
The Powell nomination or endorsement total, totally about race.
People have forgotten, but I have not, ladies and gentlemen.
Colin Powell publicly broke with the administration over affirmative action.
Specifically affirmative action cases that were before the Supreme Court in 2003.
It was a case in Michigan.
I have the CBS story here, January 20th, 2003.
Secretary of State, Colin Powell said Sunday he disagrees with President Bush's position on affirmative action case before the Supreme Court as the White House call for more money for historically black colleges.
Powell, one of two black members of Mr. Bush's cabinet said he supports methods the University of Michigan uses to bolster minority enrollments in its undergraduate and law school programs.
The policies offer points to minority applicants and set goals for minority admissions.
That's why he doesn't want any more Republican appointments.
He is pro-affirmative action.
He is also pro-abortion.
In case you had forgotten, here's a quote from Colin Powell at the Republican National Convention, August 12th, 1996.
You all know that I believe in a woman's right to choose, and I strongly support affirmative action, and I was invited here by my party to share my views with you because we are a big enough party and big enough people to disagree on individual issues and still work together for our common goal: restoring the American dream.
I don't know what happened.
Very, very small.
He's not comfortable.
I think he's still saying he's a Republican, by the way, after all this.
Uh after endorsing uh Obama.
But if anybody thinks that Barack Obama has the slightest intention of restoring the American dreams, Secretary Powell, you um have another thing coming.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
So I say I was unaware any of this.
I a little couple paragraphs, okay, so they get linked drudge, the politico and so forth, but yep, yep.
DNC TV Live this morning, Tamron Hall talking to uh Michelle Obama's chief of staff, Stephanie Cutter.
The question.
Stephanie Rush Limbaugh went on to say in his critique of all this, he says, I'm now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal white candidates he has endorsed.
I'll let you know what I come up with.
That's what Limbaugh said.
How do you respond to those critics out there like Limbaugh?
I think it's disgusting, actually.
Colin Powell is not somebody who enters into the political fray easily.
The symbolism of Colin Powell rejecting John McCain as president is just as powerful as choosing Barack Obama.
We are thrilled and honored to have Colin Powell's endorsement, but we also understand it was a real blow to John McCain, and I think Rush Limbaugh is just expressing that.
They're gonna grab it anything.
They're gonna grab it.
It's disgusting what I say.
It's essentially disgusting what I say.
Well, I stand by it.
I mean, I th I thought it was pretty clever to come up with this in a couple seconds before I had to run out to the football game.
I mean, this didn't take much time to have to think through.
Everybody knows this is totally about race.
Then on CNN's American Morning today, the co-host Kieran Chetry is talking to Tom Brokaw.
Brokaw left NBC to go over to CNN today for an interview.
Karen Kirinchetry said Rush Limbaugh wrote in an email that Secretary Powell said his endorsement is not about race.
I'm searching his past endorsements to see if I can come up with all the inexperienced, very white liberal candidates that he's endorsed.
What Rush Limbaugh does not get into is Colin Powell's indictment of what the Republican Party he says is doing to itself.
Colin Powell stood at the convention in 2007 and praised President Bush and Dick Cheney, saying that he thought that they would help uh heal the racial divide in America.
He thinks it's contracted the Republican Party rather than reached out to a lot of people.
He has great, great admiration for John McCain.
He just doesn't think he'd run a very good campaign.
Well, so we go we we gonna decide who we elect based on the kind of campaign they run.
Has a lot of respect for John McCain.
what one thing I don't get into is Powell's indictment of what the Republican Party's doing to itself.
If there has been anybody who has been sounding the warning buzzers and bells about the mistakes the Republican Party is making, my friends, over the past year and a half, it is I, L. Rushbaugh.
I can't help it if the party doesn't listen.
It went on.
This is uh this is yesterday afternoon on DNC TV Live, Contessa Brewer talking to George Mason University's Michael McDonald about the Powell endorsement and me.
Here's what Limbaugh writes in this email.
Quote, Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race.
Okay, fine.
I'm now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal white candidates he has endorsed.
I'll let you know what I find.
You know, Michael, does that kind of rhetoric encourage the Bradley effect when people go to the polls?
Does that sort of the question that that lingers here?
Those Rush Limbaugh supporters are going to be like those people who aren't going to vote for Barack Obama because he's a Democrat or some other reason that they don't agree with his policies.
So this really won't magnify this effect in any sort of way.
It's just going to reinforce the opinions of these people who aren't already going to support Obama.
So he's saying, what are you people who maybe are so worried about?
Limbaugh's not going to change anybody's mind.
He's just going to increase the validation of people already opposed.
But how about the question?
That my comment will increase the Bradley effect?
Where do you get that?
I it's it still strikes me, folks, that all these people on the Obama side are still a little worried for for a bunch of people who think they've got this in the bag.
David Schuster this morning on DNC TV Live, host Tamron Hall talks to Schuster, says General Powell said if race was the only factor he would have decided months ago.
That's not stopped people from talking about this.
You've heard that sort of language repeated by Rush Limbaugh, who has said, show me some white liberal that Colin Powell has endorsed.
It's an issue out there, and a lot of people will find it quite unseemly to suggest that Colin Powell is doing this simply because of race.
Well, maybe unseemly, but it's totally true.
It's nobody's no, nobody has talked, not one of them has addressed the inexperienced aspect of what I said either.
Remember the whole quote here, folks.
The whole quote is, I'm now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal white candidates he has endorsed.
I'll let you know what I come up with.
Now, for just so you know, I haven't come up with any.
I I I worked diligently on this on the airplane on the on the trip home from Green Bay yesterday.
I got home last worked diligently.
I can't find any of these inexperienced white liberals that Powell has endorsed.
Uh so they're all focusing on you know it's race.
This is I mean this is hitting a nerve.
So what if it's race?
Why is it so hard to admit that it's race?
Ninety-five percent of black people are gonna vote for Obama because he's black?
Well, what what what's why what what's so what's so problematic about admitting this?
I thought it should be about race.
I thought you liberals thought this a historic candidacy because finally we're going to elect a black guy to be what why why hide behind this?
Why act like it's not about race?
What, you want to tell us about his policies?
Still they they weren't through here.
ABC's World News Tonight, a core uh a portion of correspondent John Cochran's report about me and the Powell endorsement.
Rush Limbaugh suggested today that Obama's race may have played a part in Powell's endorsement.
Powell denied race had any connection, but did say Obama's election would be historic.
You notice what nobody else is talking about here is that second brilliant paragraph I wrote about the Supreme Court.
Which is just as big an indictment of General Powell as the first one is, in fact, maybe even more so.
The second thing I wrote to the politico states, I was also unaware of his dislike for John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, and Antonin Scalia.
I guess General Powell also regrets Ronald Reagan making him a four-star general.
I guess he regrets George Bush making him Secretary of State.
Meaning, hey, Powell owes his name and his ascension to various heights to Republicans.
I guess nobody wants to focus on that.
When Juan Williams of all people at Fox News was asked about this this morning on America's Newsroom, Megan Kelly said to him, What uh what Rush is saying is he doesn't believe Powell that race didn't have any to do with it, or this is not a race-based endorsement.
Does Rush have a point won?
Of course he does.
Of course it has to do with race.
It has a lot to do with this sort of senior black man, sort of the original crossover race star in American politics, Colin Powell.
I think reaching out to this younger black man, and I think in so many ways it goes beyond race, but uh, I think Rush Limbaugh is right if he says race is a definite factor here.
In terms of his legacy, I think this will stand as a real monument, reaching out to the potentially the first black president of the United States.
See, it is.
It's totally about race.
How can he not support the guy?
This is this is if if he wants his standing in Washington to remain what it is, I mean he's the Liberal's favorite Republican, he's a liberal's favorite diplomat, the liberals' favorite this.
How can he how can he dare then that's what's important to him?
In fact, I won't take you back.
I, ladies and gentlemen, was on uh this week with David Brinkley, August 16th, 1995.
And I said this about former General Colin Powell at that on that program with 1995, 13 years ago.
He's playing it very coily.
He's done a very good job of keeping everything he believes on every issue totally secret.
Uh he doesn't know and that's why he's so high in the polls.
He's acting like he doesn't want it, but he'll make every speech he has the chance to make, and the situation is psychological.
Please, Mr. Powell, General Powell, please run.
And what can be a better situation than that?
That was when Powell was flirting with uh being president, running for president in 1996.
That's when he would not even identify what party uh he was a member of.
Brief timeout, coming right back.
Don't go away.
You know, folks, it's just funny.
Drive by's can't make up their mind out there, such as they are.
On the one hand, on the one hand, we are told that if you're a white Democrat and you vote against Obama, you are a racist.
On the other hand, if Powell endorsed Obama, it's got nothing to do with race, right?
And if you if you oppose Obama, you're racist.
If you support him, you are intelligent.
And in fact, Biden, where was this?
This is uh to the well here's the headline.
By voters having a difficult time electing first African American president.
Joe Biden said Saturday that with Republicans firing vicious, dangerous attacks on Obama.
Voters are having a difficult time opting for the man who would become the nation's first black president.
Undecided people having a difficult time out there, just culturally making the change, making a move for the first African American president in the history of the United States, said uh said Obama, uh or Biden rather, these these vicious attacks on Barack's character.
Well what it what it has is truthful information emerging that attack is lag of characters what's going on.
But anyway, so you're racist.
If you're if you're undecided and you can't, you can't make up your mind to vote for Obama, you're racist.
But with Powell, no, no, no, no, nothing to do with race.
But of course it had everything to do with race.
I know they're they're playing sterling.
You think they're just now claiming victory?
Pelosi's out there thinking she can 250 seats in the House, even more if they had more money.
Oh, they've got it in the bag in their minds, this is over.
It's just it's just a matter of time.
Now we put together a montage here because Obama said he is honored and humbled.
He said yesterday in Fayetteville, he's honored and humbled by Powell's endorsement.
So we put together a montage here of Obama praising Powell's wisdom, along with Powell's weapons of mass destruction speech at the UN.
Remember now, Obama's whole campaign is based on opposition to the administration and this speech that uh uh Powell gave at the United Nations Security Council.
This morning, a great soldier, a great statesman.
Banned materials have recently been moved from a number of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction facilities.
A great American has endorsed our campaign for change.
There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons.
I have been honored to have the benefit of his wisdom.
Saddam Hussein has never accounted for vast amounts of chemical weaponry.
And his council.
Saddam Hussein is determined to get his hands on a nuclear bomb.
But today I'm beyond honor.
Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Mousab al-Zuqawi, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden.
I am deeply humbled.
Leaving Saddam Hussein in possession of weapons of mass destruction for a few more months or years is not an option.
Not in a post-September 11th world.
I am deeply humbled to have the support of General Colin Powell.
So Powell went up there and said everything Obama disagreed with.
Okay, I'm just, it's just a little fun.
There's sort of like our montage with uh Rob Torricelli the torch, denying it all while a lawyer listed all the stuff that Torricelli got.
A gold wash, five thousand dollars in cash.
And I didn't believe my character is being attacked.
Hush money payments to women, blah, blah, blah they were.
It was funny.
Uh, and we did the same thing here with uh with Obama and General Powell.
All right, now when we come back, uh we'll get started the next hour.
I'm gonna get some of your phone calls.
Focus on Biden promising, promising that the United States and its new president Obama will be tested by multiple acts and multiple nations, and he's gonna need our support because they may not do the right thing.
It may not appear to be the right thing, but it will be the right thing.
It's gonna be very, very tough out there.
This is stunning.
And I've been just so confused about the Powell endorsement, though, folks.
I I thought that having uh McCain as a nominee would wrap up the moderate vote, um, especially against this leftist like like Obama.
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