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July 23, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 23, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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So we had a disaster of a press conference last night, according to the drive-by media that loves Obama.
As I said in the first hour, this was great.
The more we learned about this, whining all night.
We inherit and we inherited and lying about what he inherited.
Lying about inheriting a 1.3 trillion dollar deficit.
Lying about he voted for everything that led to the death.
The Democrats have been running to Congress since 2007.
Obama, with 150 big days working in the Senate in a six-year term.
Well, he didn't serve all six, but he voted for everything that busted the budget.
He voted for TARP.
He voted for all this.
He inherited his own work.
But he still whines about.
I I mean it's just it's you know what?
I think, you know, you and I, uh, ladies and gentlemen, we we see certain things with a casual uh watcher, casual viewer last night, and I'll bet the ratings stink.
That was laborious last night.
But the casual viewer is gonna say, why does he keep blaming them?
Why is he whining?
Why is he keeping we inherited, we inherited, and then to talk about all the successes.
You gotta hear you see, this is what I was afraid to give the audio engineer uh soundbite roster order because now I've decided we're gonna do number 11 here.
We're gonna do this this is let's just do 11, 12, and 13 right now.
This I just watched with my mouth wide open.
This is why I think he, you know, he did the CBO and all these other agencies that say, no, Mr. President, your numbers are not right.
He needs to come up with his own Washington's White House agency to counter the CBO, the Office of Imaginary Information, or OII.
The Office of Imaginary Information, which he can cite.
Listen to this.
This is just I don't know what to say about it.
As a result of the actions we took in those first weeks, we've been able to pull our economy back from the brink.
We took steps to stabilize our financial institutions and our housing market.
And we passed a recovery act that has already saved jobs and created new ones, delivered billions in tax relate to families and small businesses, and extended unemployment insurance and health insurance to those who've been laid off.
Of course, we still have a long way to go.
And the Recovery Act will continue to save and create more jobs over the next two years, just like it was designed to do.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is no job creation taking place.
There is no jobs being saved other than in government.
The economy is not back from the brink.
We have not stabilized the housing market.
But none of that's true.
Not a word of the tax relief in billions of dollars to families and small businesses.
What the hell and what did I miss?
Extended, well, we have extended unemployment insurance and health insurance.
Still have a long way to go.
Here's unemployment numbers.
Barbara Hollingsworth, local opinion editor at the Washington Examiner.
Is unemployment actually much higher, like close to 20%, she says.
Every month the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes six measures of labor underutilization.
That's unemployment.
The official unemployment rate used by politicians in the media, referred to as U3, measures the percent of the civilian labor force that's out of work.
But U3 does not include the so-called discouraged workers who've completely stopped looking for gigs, marginally attached workers who had not searched for a job in the past month, or those involuntarily employed part-time instead of full-time.
U6, as opposed to U3.
U6 includes every willing worker who wants, but is not able to secure a full-time job.
So a state's U6 rate is obviously higher than it's U3.
Much higher.
For example, Michigan, which has the highest U3 figure in the nation, 11%, has an I-Popping 19.2% U6 unemployment rate.
Nine other states, U6 figures, are also above 15%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Here they are.
Oregon total unemployment, 18.4%.
California, 17.7%.
Rhode Island, 17.1%.
South Carolina, 16.8%.
Tennessee, 15.7%.
Florida, 15.6, Arizona, 15.5, Nevada, 15.2%, Ohio, 15.1.
Now, I don't know where in the world you can come out and say, as a result of the actions we took in the first first weeks, we've been able to pull our economy back from the brink.
We took steps to stabilize the housing market.
We passed a recovery act that's already saved jobs and created new ones.
And everybody watching this last time was how come I don't have one?
Where are these jobs?
What are people doing?
And then we find out that we've only spent, what, 5% or 6% of the Recovery Act?
Dr. Peter Robinson: These and not one quite this guy lied through his teeth to the press corps, and not one question disputing any of this.
There wasn't one question about Iraq or Afghanistan.
There wasn't one question.
This is, I mean, Obama says he wants to do a press conference on health care, and they dutifully oblige.
And they ask softball setup.
There are a couple questions that were asked that were somewhat tough.
Where's this transparency?
You promised all these hearings on C-SPAN.
Where are they?
And he uh sort of knocked his way around that.
Uh here is this uh becoming a mantra now, this next soundbite.
I understand how easy it is for this town to become consumed in the game of politics to turn every issue into a running tally of who's up and who's down.
I've heard the one Republican strategist told his party that even though they may want to compromise, it's better politics to go for the kill.
Another Republican senator that defeating health care reform is about breaking me.
So let me be clear.
This isn't about me.
They are really getting to him.
They are you never heard Bush talk about this thing in personal terms.
Uh never.
Bush never, he never whined, he never complained.
Here's Obama.
Mean Republican.
I'm telling you, this guy has led a charmed life.
You don't dare criticize him, you don't laugh at him.
Uh he's Barack Obama.
You just don't do that.
And now, wait, the next sound bite, this is another thing I think the average American watching this thing, this is a kind of rub you raw kind of, yeah.
We know you're the president.
He sits to him and says, I am the president.
Listen to this bike.
What I said is that there may be a number of different ways to raise money.
I put forward what I thought was the best proposal, which was to limit the deductions, the itemized deductions, for the wealthiest Americans.
The House suggested a surcharge on wealthy Americans, and my understanding, although I haven't seen the final versions, is that there's been talk about making that basically only apply to uh families whose joint income is a million dollars.
To me, that meets my principle that it's not being shouldered by families who are uh already having a tough time.
It's my job.
I'm the president, and I think this has to get done.
Uh okay, now mentioned earlier that the elements of state-run media that got to be getting guilty conscience in some of these places.
I don't know what else explains this.
Robert Pearr, Peter Baker, New York Times Today experts dispute some points in health talk.
This is pretty brutal here.
Obama showed great fluency in the intricate details of health policy, but experts said some of his points were debatable.
See, the inside the beltway crowd love the fluency.
They love the elegance.
They love Oh, he's so smart.
Even they they marvel at how deceptively he succeeds.
Because inside the beltway, especially in post-Bush era, they just love having somebody that can talk.
Mr. Obama said doctors, nurses, hospitals, drug companies, and the AARP had supported his efforts.
While it's true the AMA has endorsed a bill drafted by House Democrat leaders, a half dozen state medical societies have sharply Criticized provisions.
Likewise, Mr. Obama said Medicare could save large amounts of money by creating an independent group of doctors and medical experts who are empowered to eliminate waste and inefficiency and hold down the annual increases in payments to health care providers.
Far from supporting this proposal, the American hospital association's urging hospital executives to lobby against it.
Of the proposed new cost control agency, Obama said it's not going to reduce Medicare benefits.
What it's going to do is change how those benefits are delivered so that they're more efficient.
The hell does that mean?
Hospitals say the cuts could indeed cut services in some areas, and from teaching hospitals, which receive extra payments because of higher costs.
In seeking to portray health legislation as bipartisan, Mr. Obama said that 160 Republican amendments were adopted in a bill approved last week with the Senate Health Committee.
Republicans said many of the amendments involved technical provisions and didn't alter the fundamental features.
The president said the health insurance companies are making record profits.
America's health insurance plans, the main lobby for insurers, contends that for every dollar spent on health care in America, approximately one penny goes to profits.
Obama said he was not proposing to ration care, just wanted to coordinate it better.
He said he wants to eliminate repetitious tests ordered by different doctors for the same patient.
President continued to take credit for deficit reduction by making a claim that's been challenged by many experts.
If we had done nothing, if you had the same old budget as opposed to the changes we made, the deficit over the next ten years will be 2.2 trillion dollars greater.
In fact, one and a half trillion of those savings are mainly based on an assumption that the United States would have had as many troops in Iraq in ten years as it did when Obama took office.
But before leaving office, Bush signed an agreement with Baghdad mandating the withdrawal of all American forces within three years, so there is no 10-year plan.
So Obama's claiming credit for not spending money that under the policy he inherited would never have been spent in the first place.
New York Times.
AP has won.
Uh a fact check that is even.
I mean, they outline the lies.
Their headline, Obama's health care claims adrift.
That's just a polite way of saying he's lying.
How long do you think it took the uh AP Obama headline writer to come up with that one?
It's I don't I'm not gonna bore you with it.
We'll link to it at Rushlinbaugh.com, but um it's whole thing last night was just it was a sight to behold.
It really was.
What we had last night was arrogance on parade.
You have you have to be arrogant and full of hubris to think you can actually go out and tell those kinds of lies and have them believed.
You must have a really, really high impression of yourself.
You must really believe the people in your audience don't care what you're saying.
They just marvel that they're in your presence and listening to you.
We're talking about an ego here that has no boundaries.
Okay, we'll get to more of your phone calls as well and other exciting sound bites.
Pretty good roster today.
Sit tight, coming back much more straight ahead.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone.
I tell you what, that press conference last night, folks, was so good.
Obama last night was so effective that the top Democrat in the Senate, Dingy Harry, has just said that lawmakers in the Senate will not vote until after August on their health care bill a blow to President Obama's ambitious timetable.
And let me tell you something, Senator Reed.
We will be ready for you.
When you come back after the August recess, we will be ready.
And Senator Reed, your colleagues are gonna go home for the August recess and they're gonna have meetings, town meetings, and they're going to hear a barrage like they haven't heard.
They are going to hear questions at town hall meetings from constituents and voters who know more than their senator knows.
They are going to hear it full force.
Remember, though.
Remember the dingy Harry was talking to Obama, and Obama said, you know, Harry, I have a gift.
Meaning his ability to speak and be persuasive.
It was so persuasive last night, no health care vote in the Senate until the fall.
Senator Durbin alluded to this last night in the story in the Hill.
Over in the House, Nancy Pelosi says I have the votes.
The leader of the Blue Dogs, the guy from Arkansas says, no, she doesn't have the votes.
And if they had the votes, they wouldn't be pressuring us the way they are.
So the health care vote delayed until the fall.
We will be ready.
When they get back to continue this.
Back to the phones to Chicago.
This is Ted.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Okay, just a question.
Um Obama keeps talking about how all these uh people, you know, they they lost their job or they can't afford their insurance or whatever.
Somehow they're in financial straits.
But don't we already have programs like Medicaid and public aid to cover people who don't have any money?
That's right.
Everybody gets coverage.
Everybody, well, everybody gets health care in this country.
I had a story yesterday about young people who either got fired laid off or part-time work and they don't have health insurance.
It was horrible.
It was an AP story.
It was designed to spur sympathy.
And if you read the story, they all got treated nevertheless.
It was just tragic they didn't have any insurance.
You're exactly right.
Medicaid is for the poor.
Uh uh, and Medicare is for the elderly.
And the the promise is free for you.
You're poor.
It's free for you.
Both programs are bankrupt.
The Obama plan builds on both of those programs.
And so the the idea.
See, this is this is why I think this whole your question, Ted, is is exactly why the premise of this whole question is not the right one.
And I, you know, I I did a long interview on camera with Greta Van Susterin this morning, right here in the uh uh at the Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I was unleashed, they're promoing it that way on Fox.
It was on fire.
And I said the whole premise here is well, we don't have anything structurally wrong with our health care.
It's the best in the world.
We don't need to tear it apart, rebuild it, maybe tweak it around the edges.
And of course, Greta was a somewhat a guest, you don't think there's anything.
No, compared to the rest of the world, we've got the but nobody leaves this country, Greta, to get treated.
They come here.
And I pointed out to her, and I could see her, this this her eyes kind of got wide here.
I said, look, they really care about the uninsured.
We just spent close to a trillion dollars on the stimulus six months ago.
I ran the numbers, Greta.
Twenty-nine billion dollars would cover the genuinely 12 million poor people in this country that don't have health insurance for 29 billion dollars.
And then if 29 billion will cover 12 million, then you can uh you can run the numbers.
So we could for one year have covered these people with chump change from the stimulus.
Now, if it's so important to cover them with health insurance, why the hell didn't we?
Why are we going all I 90% of the American people have health insurance?
What are we talking about here?
We're talking about people's fear, and that's why there is insurance.
You got a policy, you pay a premium based on the amount of risk that you want to take or that you can afford.
The problem is, of course, as we know that for 50 years, the kind of well, yeah.
Yeah, 50 years.
The concept that health care should be free and you have to pay for it has been growing and growing and growing.
And don't forget, folks, every day we are bombarded with something new that's gonna kill us.
From global warming to sharks to scorpions that end up being stowaways on airplanes to the latest uh food additive or food that could kill you.
Everybody's obsessed with health, they're out there joining health clubs.
We've got the most obese people in the world who are drinking this and eating that and so forth, and everyone.
We've got a population that is inundated.
Chinese food's gonna kill you, trans fats are gonna kill you, second-hand cigarette smoke's gonna everybody's thinking they're gonna die.
Everybody's thinking they're gonna get sick.
They want health insurance.
They want catastrophic health insurance.
It's just it's all of this stuff is interlinked in order to create the demand for bigger government.
Which is somehow magically where the solution to everything lies.
Which of course is a lie.
There are very few solutions to social problems in big government.
Thanks for that question, Ted.
We got 10 minutes of an answer out of that.
It's the most listened to radio talk show in America.
Has been for about 20 years.
Well, but I don't know, when we first started, we can't say it was the most listened to.
I mean, it took us a year to get up there to around 150, 200 affiliates.
But yeah, 20, 21 years, 21 years on August 1st.
Uh Joe in Key West, Florida.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Rush, let me tell you it is a pleasure to be calling you from the Democrat People's Conch Republic.
Yeah.
And uh, you know, the more you go through this, uh, health care porculus bill, the more it stinks.
I'm looking at page 1000 where they have the national medical device registry.
And it's just stunning to me that the government would want to know about every class two or class three medical device.
That's life supporting or life-sustaining, that is or has been used in a patient.
Is or has been used.
Not what they've paid for, but what anybody has paid for or has ever had placed in them.
And I'm just waiting for the day that the Acorn representative comes by to tell me I have to register for insurance.
And they get paid for that.
Yeah.
Well, you will have to register for it.
And if uh if you're if you're poor, and if uh you're in a situation where you don't want to buy insurance and you don't want to be on Medicaid, you have to go on Medicaid.
But this is in the No, you don't.
No, no, no, you're just or you can pay a fine to the IRS.
Well, yeah, up to the amount of what your uh what your uh premium would be uh or $2,500.
But the for the government to get this intrusive into my life is is just stunning to me.
You know, I I'm glad you're reading it.
I'm glad you're seeing these things.
I am waving the red flag.
I got the sirens going and the lights blinking.
This isn't about health care, and it's not about these um these these what the devices you're talking about.
These details illustrate what this is about.
Regulating your behavior, the government keeping tabs on what you are doing, and whether what you are doing is going to cause problems for you and them with health care expenses.
This the simplest way to understand this is that it's not about health care.
And that's why Obama won't get into any details here.
That's why he's lying.
Oh, yeah.
Hey, you're gonna get increased coverage, uh, more efficient treatment, isn't it gonna cost you anything?
A couple millionaires are gonna pay a higher tax rate, and it's it's gonna be it's gonna be a panacea.
And it's I mean, if you like if you're a Medicare or Medicaid patient, if you like dealing with it, fine and dandy, you can have it, and it's gonna, it's it's gonna get even worse.
All the forms.
I want to, before before we get too far into program, I want to I want to go to this business last night of Obama calling the cops in Cambridge, Massachusetts, uh, saying they acted stupidly.
Because I think what we learned last night, ladies and gentlemen, is that President Obama did, after all, listen to Reverend Wright all those 20 years.
He said he said, Yeah, I was a member of the church 20 years and I sat there.
I didn't hear any of that.
I think he heard it all.
That question he got from Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times.
That's when he came alive.
The rather press conference, he didn't even want to be there.
This is he knew that they're in trouble, so he goes out there and uh tries to dazzle everybody with his professorial insights and capabilities and elegance and all that.
But when that question about Henry Lewis Gates and the arrest in his home came up, why there was passion, excitement, animation, fire.
He came alive.
That question was, Mr. President, recently, Professor Henry Lewis Gates was arrested at his home in Cambridge.
What does that incident say to you and what does it say about race relations in America?
A loaded question if I have ever heard this is a liberal idyllic panacea.
Cambridge, Harvard.
And so now we've got racist cops profiling.
A distinguished Harvard professor, who to my eye, every time I see this guy on TV, I see somebody enraged.
I see somebody angry.
He's a liberal, they all are.
Here's Obama's answer.
I should say at the outset that uh Skip Gates is a friend.
Uh so I may be a little biased here.
Uh I don't know all the facts.
What's been reported, though, is that the guy forgot his keys.
Uh Jimmy's way to get into the house.
Uh there was uh a report called into the police station that there might be a burglary taking place.
So far, so good.
Right?
I mean, if I was trying to jigger in, well, I guess this is my house now, so it probably wouldn't happen.
But let's say my old house in Chicago.
Um, here I'd get shot.
Okay.
Now, I have a specific thought about this.
You well, what do you think my specific thought is, Sturdley?
Why do you think Obama's nobody gets shot when they find them when they shouldn't be on the White House grounds?
Nobody gets shot there.
I mean, it's the last last resort.
They got secret service, they know when so they captured it.
He says he would get shot.
That's right.
I'm a black guy.
Uh in fact, grab sound bite three.
I didn't want to use this, but I'm not gonna use it.
I'm a black guy, I'd get shot.
Don't doubt me on this, folks.
Don't doubt me, I'd get shot.
He's laughing, and they're all laughing.
If I tell a joke about somebody getting shot on this show and I laugh about it, I will not hear the end of it for I don't know how long.
Let's go back to February 11, 2007, 60 minutes, Steve Croft interviewing uh Obama and Michelle My Bell, Obama.
Croft said, Michelle is a tough question to ask, but a number of years ago, Colin Powell thinking of running for president, his wife Alma really didn't want him to run.
She was worried about some crazy person with a gun.
Is that something you think about?
But I don't lose sleep over it.
Um, because the realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station.
You know, so you you know, you can't, you know.
You know, you can get shot going to gas station.
Last night he says if he tried to break in the White House, he gets shot.
And cops up there acted stupidly in Cambridge.
You know, Skip Gates.
I don't know the facts.
I don't know all the facts, but I know the cops acted stupidly.
In the next bite, he continues saying again he's ignorant of the facts.
I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that, but I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry.
Number two, that the Cambridge police uh acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.
And number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident, is that uh there is a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos uh being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately.
And that's just a fact.
Okay.
So I've I've long thought that there's a chip on the shoulder here.
Uh and that there's a little anger out there and uh at the at the country, based on who his mentors, associates, all that were.
Gates was not stopped.
This was not a profiling case.
Let's review what happens.
Best of my knowledge, a neighbor sees Gates.
Okay.
Okay.
Oh, okay.
A friend and driver of the car, in addition to Gates try to get in the house.
Gates and one other person.
And some neighbors, whoa, what was this?
Does it look right?
And they called the police.
And my first reaction would be thank the neighbor for looking out for me.
But I guarantee you, the neighbor's also gonna be for this is all over a racist.
In Cambridge now.
We're talking Harvard, Cambridge, we're talking idyllic liberal setting.
May as well be Duke.
May as well be the lacrosse team here.
May as well be that dancer.
Gates and a friend break in, and the cops show up, and then apparently all hell breaks loose inside the house, handcuffs and so forth.
And uh Obama doesn't know what all went on, and we don't either.
There are five or six different versions of what went on in there.
We still really don't know.
Bill Cosby has come out today in Boston.
He can't believe the president would say what he said about this, admitting he doesn't know all the facts.
So the Obama wasn't quite through.
After taking this incident where Gates was not stopped.
He was not pulled over.
He was the cops were called there by somebody in the neighborhood.
This was not a profiling incident.
Here's more from President Obama.
When I was in the state legislature in Illinois, we worked on a racial profiling uh bill because there was indisputable evidence that blacks and Hispanics were being stopped disproportionately.
Uh and that is a sign, an example of how, you know, race remains a factor in the society.
That doesn't lessen the incredible progress that has been made.
I am standing here as testimony to the progress that's been made.
And yet, the fact of the matter is is that you know this still haunts us.
Yep.
Uh wasn't supposed to.
We're supposed to be beyond all this now, right?
Post partisan, post-racial.
So last week we dump on the white firefighters.
This week, from the Oval Office, let's Obama's buddies at Acorn have been dumping on the white firefighters in New Haven.
This week from actually the East Room, we now start dumping on cops.
The cop in question, Sergeant James Crowley had this exchange with uh an unidentified reporter.
Mr. Gates has asked him for an apology.
What is your reaction to that?
There will be no apology.
Does it?
Is this now and ever?
No apology.
Yes.
No apology, didn't do anything wrong.
Uh and we all we've heard now this guy gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to um Reggie Lewis of the Boston Celtics who'd had a heart attack.
He's black.
Cop is even citing this.
I didn't see anybody.
He saw a human being in distress.
Um, a neighbor in Cambridge, a neighbor of a neighbor Professor Gates.
This is quick.
It's five seconds long.
I would have to say, you know, he was uh as the police report said belligerent.
He was belligerent, talking about Gates.
Now, here's Charlie Ogletree, Harvard professor, Gates lawyer on ABC's Good Morning America.
Uh the uh uh question, what was your client's reaction to the president's comments tonight?
He was simply pleased that Barack acknowledged that he was a friend, and that what he had read and heard and and understood to have been reported that Professor Gates did not violate the law by being in his own house with identification saying that he was there lawfully.
Was he charged with that?
He wasn't charged with being he wasn't wasn't stopped, and he wasn't charged with legally being in his house.
He was charged with disorderly conduct.
There's something went on in there.
I mean, they they dropped the charges, but something went on.
Now Gates not through.
Last night, Black in America on CNN, host Soledad O'Brien, asked a question originally.
They they put the handcuffs behind your back.
They put the handcuffs behind my back, and I told them that I was handicapped, I used a cane.
They had a debate.
There was a black officer there who was very sensitive.
He persuaded them to move the handcuffs from around the back to the front, and took me to the Cambridge police station and booked me.
Fingerprints, mugshot, which has now been all over the seen it a lot that made me realize was how vulnerable all black men are.
How vulnerable all people of color are, and all poor people to capricious forces like a rogue policeman.
And this man clearly was a rogue policeman.
This is how it starts, folks.
This is how it starts.
I don't know how many poor people live in Cambridge.
I don't know.
This is this makes it sound like this happens in Cambridge all the time.
Make it sound like all this profiling going on at Cambridge all the time.
But this is how this stuff starts.
That stuff is he's it's no accident that he's saying this and characterizing it this and now making this a national cause.
A national issue.
Same show, Soto.
Black in America on CNN, Gates wrapped it up with this.
My lawyers and I are considering what further action because what is this?
Does that mean lawsuit?
Um perhaps because this is not about me.
This is about the vulnerability of black men in America.
We've got a new mantra here.
Nothing's about these guys.
Gates is not about me gonna sue for all black men in America.
It's not about me.
I mean, that this is a change of subject.
This this is this is this is suspect to me.
It isn't about me, it's about all black men in America.
I gotta take a break, folks.
We're a little long here, so sit tight back in a moment.
Okay, folks, I have been gingerly dancing around the Gates business, but I've decided here that I'm gonna tell you what I really think about it.
In the first place, what we now know is that Gates was not arrested sipping tea sitting on his sofa legally in his house.
He followed the police out of the house screaming at him.
How else would neighbors know he was belligerent?
That's when he was arrested.
He wasn't sitting in a couch sipping tea daintily.
He was screaming at the cop there to help protect his property.
I've also learned that Gates' house had a history of having been broken into.
This is why the neighbor called.
There's a lot of break-ins in this neighborhood recently.
In fact, there was damage done to Gates' door.
Now, here's what I think.
The cops come and find out at your house you're legally there.
There's no reason to arrest you.
Something happened.
Well, you know, he follows him, I think.
I think Skip Gates wanted to be arrested.
And provoked the cop.
The only person who should really come under any scrutiny about the cops being there is Gates' almost certainly liberal neighbor.
I mean, we were talking Cambridge here.
These houses are kind of close together.
The neighbor didn't recognize her own neighbor, didn't recognize Gates, call the cops.
When you live in a neighborhood with houses right next to each other, normal people recognize their neighbors.
But the neighbor, no doubt being a liberal, probably racist, saw what she saw.
Once the cops show up, Gates instantly saw opportunity for Capitol P publicity.
Chance to get out from the shadow of his uh former colleague, Cornell West.
There's a rivalry there between those two guys.
I mean, you have to go out of your way to be disorderly to get a to get arrested.
I mean, especially after it's been established you are the owner of a house.
And by the way, sturdily, let me check.
We all know who Henry Lewis Gates is.
Do you know what department he teaches in at Harvard?
What's his what's his department?
African American studies.
What is African American Studies?
It's an entire department devoted to creating racial friction.
All of his academic writings are about racial issues.
Something about this, and then Obama jumping that question last night.
Cops acted stupidly.
This is how unfortunate things start and grow and snowball, and I'm not comfortable with it.
Yeah, you had an obnoxious citizen challenging the cops to arrest him, and in essence they did.
And there's a picture of black cops standing right there.
One thing here for Obama, what he did last night, this is not a force for positive race relations in this country.
He's dealing in stereotypes.
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