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Sept. 14, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 14, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
What an event that was on Saturday.
In fact, folks, there were more people at that event on Saturday, according to the British press, than there were people who showed up at Obama's Immaculation back in January.
And you will not find that reported anywhere in the state controlled media in this country, but in the UK press, the British press.
It's all over the place.
And there was something else about that event Saturday that is seminal, something that is crucial for me to point out.
And I'm going to do that.
Because it's showtime.
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Barack Obama speaking again as we speak.
As this program commences, he flew to New York to commemorate the crash of the Lehman Brothers.
He refused to fly to New York for the Twin Towers crash.
But he did fly to New York.
I mean, they they they actually used the word celebrate the one year anniversary of the crash at Lehman Brothers.
He's out there doing a speech on financial reform.
And it's amazing every time he's got a anybody going through Obama withdrawal syndrome, not on television enough.
They ought to they ought to rename 60 minutes to 60 minutes with Obama.
He's been on three times this year alone.
Now, for those of you uh listening to the program right now, I have no idea how many of our affiliate stations, if any, have uh bumped coverage of us to carry Obama's speech on the financial sector.
Well, you never know.
There might be some who have done so.
I don't know.
But point is if any have, I'm not I'm not gonna let Obama get away with this.
So those of you listening right now, be aware I'm going to repeat the first half hour of this program, not verbatim.
I'm just going to do it all again.
Once this stupid speech is over with, I may do at the top of the next hour or what have you.
Uh, but the the attempts here to supersede the leader of the conservative movement uh shall not go unanswered by the leader of the conservative movement.
Anyway, a thrill and delight to be with you.
Let's go straight to the audio sound bites, and we'll start here Sunday morning, Joe Matthew, or Joe Klein on the Chris Matthews show.
Um, and uh well, also uh Laura O'Donnell or is uh Nora, Norah O'Donnell was the fill-in host, and she uh she she said she said to Joe Klein uh about criticism of uh of Obama.
Why why is this being voiced now in this health care debate?
Because they're being egged on by demagogues in the Republican Party by boss Rush Limbaugh, and I call him the boss because there isn't a single Republican elected official who's willing to call him out on his lies.
Let's stay with Sunday morning, CNN State of the Union, Howard Kurtz talking to Sam Tannenhouse of the New York Times.
Kurt says, today's leaders, at least in the media sphere, is Rush Limbaugh, and and you don't seem to have much respect for him.
But look, Rush has 600 radio stations.
Howie says 15 million listeners is 22, actually.
His message must be resonating with some people.
In the notorious comment a Rush Limbaugh made that he hoped President Obama would fail, he was actually alluding in a serious way to the way our two-party system works, which is that we have alternating periods of single party dominance, and the in-party, the Sun Party, in the famous formulation, is going to have most of the debate occur within its own ranks, such as we saw with the stimulus package and the health care debate now.
My concern is that Republicans have essentially vacated the field, and conservative intellectuals are not holding their feet to the fire.
The issue of Rush Limbaugh having emerged as the most conspicuous spokesperson for the right was actually identified 15 years ago by Michael Lind, great political commentator.
This is something that's been with us for a long time.
And you don't it's not fifteen years is twenty-one, but uh, you know, who is counting?
Uh 21 years uh Rush Limbaugh is having a merge.
Well, what is his point?
Uh his is his point, these people look at their playing the race card right now.
They are losing this debate, and they're going back to their time-honored cliches and templates, and they do not understand how it is that a Republican Party that's being silent for the most part can can bring all of this to a screeching halt, can cause this much trouble.
So, what's causing the problem?
They want all this passed.
They want Obama to succeed.
What's causing the problem?
I am, in their view.
I am.
This is where they're wrong, and this is the seminal thing that I have to point out to you, but but stick with me on this first, because it keeps getting better.
Then Saturday morning, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, the host Pedro Echevera, spoke with Perry Bacon of State Controlled Washington Post to question to what would you attribute the success of this organization, this rally on Saturday, and what they've done across the United States.
I think that they've tapped into more than the party here as in Washington.
They've really tapped into this grassroots sort of frustration about the growth in government, bailouts, and so on.
They've really captured it.
There's been a strong desire for a more a bigger small government advocate out there that there was a push for that.
And the Republicans here in Washington for a while supported Bush and conservatives that argue supported Bush while he was growing the size of government and versus now the Republicans in Washington have sort of heard the grassroots in some ways and they're acting more, they're opposing everything Obama does and calling it sort of government takeover, the same kind of rhetoric you would hear on a Rush Limbaugh show.
So uh the the general theme uh from the uh from the state controlled media is that the people at these rallies on Saturday are there because of fifteen to twenty-one years of uh conservative leadership on uh by me.
Uh nothing to do with the Republican Party, and they're just I mean, they are ticked off about it.
They are Kanye West drunk, uh disrupting the MTV awards.
They're just they're just fit to be tied.
This is not how this was supposed to go down.
Obama was supposed to sail through.
This this was supposed to happen by acclamation.
We were supposed to be on our hands and feet or on our hands and knees, actually, bowing down and thanking the great one for uh fixing this country.
This country has never been more divided than it is now, contrary to what everybody thought Obama was going to bring.
It was great unity and everyone getting along and end of the partisan divide.
Um now let's go to the P.S. that is this night, and yes, the seminal moment of Saturday still yet to be pointed out by me, and it's a it's a key one, so stick with me here.
But first, Saturday night CNN newsroom, the anchor Don Lemon talking with the author Tim Wise about his new book between Barack and a Hard Place, the anchor says is race a factor.
Is that the elephant in this room?
It is the background noise of a lot of the opposition.
You have Rush Lembaugh yesterday on the air, saying first that community service is the first step toward fascism, which is bizarre even for him, and then almost immediately after that, saying one of the problems with America is too much multiculturalism.
You wouldn't say that unless you were trying to stoke white racial resentment.
And so when you say those things, I want to know when are Republican leaders going to condemn that kind of rhetoric because that's where race is being interjected.
Race has nothing to do with this.
Multiculturalism has nothing to do with race.
This has to do with there being two or three completely different Americas now.
We are trying to save this country as it was founded for anybody who wants to join us.
We don't care what their race, their ethnicity, their religion happens to be.
Community service is the first step toward fascism.
When you take the event of 9-11, they leave this out.
You take the commemorative celebration of 9-11, turn it into a community service day.
9-11's not about community service.
9-11 is about remembering the dead and remembering who killed the dead and what we're going to do to make sure it doesn't happen again.
It's not about advancing President Obama's political agenda.
Now, the Great Seminole Moment, the Great Seminal Moment on Saturday, and Clarice Feldman at the American Thicker, along with uh Rosalind Smith, say this better than I could.
We are witnessing a very rare phenomenon.
The genuine broad-based spontaneous political movement, with no visible charismatic leaders.
Most significantly of all, those in attendance had not relied on any way, in any way, on members of the current political class to get them there, nor had they showed up because their livelihood would be in jeopardy had they not agreed to demonstrate, as is the union way.
And this is exactly right.
We are witnessing a conservative ascendancy here.
And it is happening because the people of this country are scared to death and fed up and see clearly what their future is if they don't try to stop it.
They are doing we had a call on Friday from a guy who called and said, I just want to thank you.
But my wife and I were going to this thing.
It was the first time we've ever done anything like this.
Most people are doing this for the first time they've ever done anything like this.
And he wanted to thank me, and I said, sir, with all due respect, I'd love to accept your thanks, but I haven't told anybody to go to any of these rallies.
I haven't urged anybody to go to this thing Saturday in Washington.
I didn't urge anybody to go to the town halls.
I just, all I've ever said was that what did happen in the town halls on Saturday is something that's going to have to be kept up for four years.
We cannot, because we're you if you're looking for validation from the state controlled media, I say this again.
If you're looking for the media to report on what you did fairly and actually be moved by it, if you're looking for Obama to be moved by it, it ain't gonna happen.
This is uh this and and I think I think people know this now.
But this was this is folks, I cannot tell you how important this is.
I mean, look at, being very honest.
I have all these sound bites.
I've got uh one to four sound bites to lead this program, and all these jerks in the state controlled media think you showed up Saturday because of me.
Do you know how easy it would be for me to come here and say, yep, I did it?
But I didn't ask one person to go.
I didn't urge anybody to go to this thing.
And you know why?
Because I knew I didn't have to.
I've never asked you to make phone calls to Congress, because I know well, I did it once to demo what would happen if I did.
I shut down the switchboard.
But I don't tell you to write letters, I don't do any well, maybe during the immigration debate was one uh noted exception.
But I know that I don't have to.
You don't need a leader, and Clarice Feldman's exactly right.
You don't need a uh uh a charismatic leader to uh get you out of the house and to spend money to drive or fly to Washington and get a hotel for Friday and Saturday night and show up as part of a two million people crowd on Saturday and then leave the place as clean as you found it, like Dan's bake sale, that some of the pictures after the event, there were no messes just like Dan's bake sale.
Now, one other thing about this.
I was reading in the New York, well, I had it pointed out to me, Ross Douthit uh in his and I hope I'm pronouncing that right.
I really I've never heard his name pronounced.
It's D-O-U-T-H-A-T.
So I'm just pronouncing it.
Do that, doubtfully I'm just pronouncing it as it looks to me.
He had a quote from Frank once.
And Frank Lunz said that um this is not a Republican or Democrat thing, this protest.
People are angry at both parties.
Let me tell you something.
I I I know Frank Lunz, and sometimes I even like Frank.
But he couldn't be more wrong about this.
I'm here to tell you that when the Republicans under George Bush were spending like never before, you didn't have this kind of thing happen.
This is a conservative ascendancy.
This most definitely is a Republican versus Democrat thing.
With Joe Wilson out there taking heat, demanding to In fact, if I were Joe Wilson, what I would say, I'll apologize as soon as Pelosi apologizes to the CIA.
She gets there and lying, I'll apologize as soon as she apologizes for calling half the country Nazis.
He said he's not going to apologize anymore.
Good for him.
This most definitely is a left-right thing.
Or if you don't like that formulation, this most definitely is a capitalist free market economy versus a fascist socialist economy kind of thing.
Or if you want a different formulation, you can say, this is freedom versus tyranny.
This is liberty versus tyranny.
That's what's driving this thing.
It has nothing to do with people upset with how things are going in Washington on the part of both parties.
I I I know that a lot of people want to look at this as uh uh the independence rising.
This is not the independence rising up.
There's some independents out there, there's some moderates.
These are people who are fed up and want no part of the Barack Obama Democrat Party agenda.
Pure and simple.
You cannot tell me that people are showing up protesting Republicans because the Republicans aren't doing anything because the Republicans can't do anything.
The Republicans don't have any power to do anything.
They don't have the votes to stop one thing.
Well, maybe in the Senate till they replace the swimmer, but uh nevertheless, the Republican, nobody's in Washington upset with the Republicans here.
You might have a few people that they're going just because they're they're mad at Washington in general, but I'm telling you, Washington for the five as long as I've been alive has been run by the Democrats.
Washington has been run by Americans left, and now it's in control of the most radical leftist bunch of people ever in our nation's history, not to mention our lifetimes.
And so don't buy this notion that you're a bunch of mind numb robots showing up because some leader got you there, that you wouldn't be doing this without that.
You're doing this on your own, and many millions more of you wanted to be there who, for whatever reasons, couldn't be.
Don't buy the notion that this is a standard people just upset at incumbents kind of thing, because it has nothing to do with that.
This is everything to do with people opposing the one.
Barack Obama and Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.
Now you'll find a lot of corruption on the left, there's no question.
And people are upset with it, but what they're foremost upset with is Obama and what his plans are, taking over the government, socializing health care, doing as much as he can to strip freedom from people and liberty.
Liberty versus tyranny.
That's what was on display Saturday.
On the part of the American people.
It is a Republican Democrat thing, and don't let anybody tell you that it's not.
We'll be back in just a sec.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up here behind the golden EIB microphone at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Now this is important, uh, folks.
There are a lot of phony conservatives out there.
They get a lot of print and then get pr in the New York Times and from the New York Times.
They uh they got a lot of attention on broadcast TV.
Any conservative who dumps on conservatism is going to be loved and uh focused on by state controlled media.
And a lot of these people are more interested in promoting themselves than uh than the cause here.
And so it's in their best career interests to keep attacking conservatives, dumping on conservatism, i.e., the era of Reagan is over and so forth, uh, to pretend that there's something else going on out there, David Brooks, uh Ross Doubtett, uh Frank Luntz.
I mean, they that they they've they've they've they've counted conservatives out there and they've insisted that conservatives change their principles or their message and they're being proven wrong.
So they spin.
Others claim that there's not a world's bit of difference between Republicans and Democrats, and that's about as stupid as it gets.
I'm not denying the Republican Party's lost its way, no question about that, on spending and other matters, but to say that there is uh no difference between the radical leadership of the Democrat Party and the Republican Party is just naive.
It is irrelevant.
These people that showed up Saturday did not show up protesting Republicans.
It is not Republicans that has them afraid for their future.
It's not Republicans, it has them afraid for their children's and grandchildren's future.
It's not Republicans that have them afraid for their jobs.
It's not Republicans that have them afraid for the economy.
It's Obama.
It's a Democrat Party today.
The Republican Party's irrelevant.
The Republican Party's got two or three people that show up now and then and say something, but they don't have the votes to stop anything.
The Republican Party's not doing diddly squat.
People don't pro up, show up and protest people who aren't doing anything.
People show up and protest people who are doing things they consider to be dangerous and destructive.
Now, what some of us have been arguing here for uh a long time is for conservatives to take back the Republican Party from these appeasers and these phony moderates who do not understand or maybe they do and just wish to ignore the radicalism of Obama, and are not willing or prepared to challenge it.
What I'm arguing for here, and what we're seeing is uh the for the rise of conservatism, and there is a conservative ascendancy taking place.
And to deny that is to sabotage what is taking place.
This is all about conservatives ascending.
This is not about people protesting simply Washington, who come at it with no ideological point of view or frame of reference.
The problem with this argument that says, well, you know, it's just the independence rising up, it's not a right-left thing, it's not a Republican-Democrat thing.
The problem with that is that it encourages the creation of a third-party movement which is going to guarantee the reelection of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party across the board.
Now, one way we know that Obamacare is in trouble is that they have launched the race card.
They have come out with this cliche.
Once again, Obamacare is in trouble.
The White House is in panic mode.
The state controlled media is in panic mode, and we have the ultimate tea leaf to prove it.
When all else fails, go to page one of the 50 year old Democrat Party playbook and launch the race card.
It's page one of their playbook.
They would have us believe that there are no legitimate problems with Obamacare.
There are no legitimate concerns.
It's just racists who want to stop the first black president.
I don't know who pressed the launch button on the race card, but you can see and hear and read those who got the message.
Maureen Dowd in the New York Times yesterday talking about Joe Wilson said, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air.
You know, Wilson said you lie.
Maureen Dodd says what she heard was, you lie boy.
Newsweek with a cover is your baby racist.
Your baby at six months learns to hate people of different races.
This is a sure sign that they are in desperate straits and out of ideas.
No, I kid you not.
By the way, those of you on the phones hang tough.
I'm going to get to you quickly here.
Uh just a couple things to do before we go to the phones.
I kid you not, Newsweek magazine, September 14th cover.
Little white baby boy with the headline, Is Your Baby Racist, exploring the roots of discrimination.
The headline of the actual story, see baby discriminate kids as young as six months judge others based on skin color.
What's a parent to do?
Now this is just lies.
This is page one of the Democrat Party playbook.
They're out of ideas.
They're panicking.
They cannot debate the ideas with us, and so for I've been here 21 years, and for 21 years, they have been trying to besmirch and impugn my character and credibility by saying I'm a racist.
And it doesn't work because A, I'm not one, and B, you who listen regularly know it.
The media didn't make me, they can't break me, only you can, and uh that's up to me and you if that happens, not them.
But looking at this cover is striking for two reasons.
I thought Obama was going to make all this go away.
I thought the election of the first black president.
Actually, I didn't.
If you'll remember, I predicted that exactly what is happening was going to happen.
I predicted that the election, because I remember we had phone calls from people.
Hey, Russia, don't you think it'd be a good idea?
Because then they can never say we're racist again.
They can never say America is a racist country again.
I said, Oh no, it's only going to get worse.
I said, because any cookie, go to the archives and dig this up.
I don't care where it is.
It's last year, late last year, first part of this year, but late last year would be better.
Dig something up out of the archives.
I know I said it a number of times.
Any criticism of Obama is going to be labeled racist.
It's all the left knows to do is to call names and to impugn character.
They do not discuss the substance of issues.
They would have us believe there's nothing wrong with Obamacare.
There's nothing wrong with capping trade.
There's nothing wrong with bailing out the banks.
There's nothing wrong with the government owning General Motors and Chrysler.
There's nothing wrong with any of that.
The only reason people oppose it is because they're racist.
That's laughable.
It doesn't fly any longer.
Nobody is going to buy into this.
And yet they continue to play the card.
This story in Newsweek, apparently being born white automatically makes you a racist.
Which to me is just another example of what obsessive racists, the leftists actually are.
It's the left that refuses to let people be who they are.
It's the left that looks at people and sees categories first rather than individuals.
They see either women or gays or blacks or whites or Hispanics.
It is the left that gave us hyphenated Americans.
It is the left that prefers celebrating diversity to the glory of the American melting pot.
There used to be a distinct American culture that everybody who moved here wanted to be part of.
Now that's not happening.
This is why I say there are two or three different Americans.
And I'll tell you this if uh if children were not constantly hounded about race, it would never occur to them that it was an issue to be considered.
Now, I I You know, I've often said that uh these accusations I'm racist.
And I wasn't I wasn't a racist till the media made me one.
I wasn't a racist till the Democrat Party started focusing on all this stuff, and they called me one.
I wasn't a racist.
There's a guy writing a book about me.
And the last time I sat down and did an interview with him, it was down here in Florida.
He said, I don't think you get it about race.
I said, What do you mean?
Well, you know, there's a lot of people in this country to whom the Constitution doesn't speak for them.
I said, I know Obama's one of them.
Doesn't like the Constitution.
Well, but how would you feel?
I said, Well, this is not 1864.
This is not 1964.
He said, I don't think, but I just I think you've got a blind spot.
I said, No, you're using a liberal cliche.
How long have you known me?
Do you personally think I'm a racist?
Well, I think you've got a blind spot about it.
So I told him some stories about growing up.
I told him about our maid that came in two or three times a week named Alberta.
We called her Bertie.
She was like a grandmother to my brother and me.
And my mom and dad, my mother took her home, and I'd drive in the car.
I went six or seven years old.
And I saw where Bertie lived, and it made me sick.
And I talked to my parents about it.
I said, why does this happen?
They sat me down, they talked to me about the circumstances.
It was my father that enabled Bertie to buy a house outside of that neighborhood and get her a job at the, I think it was the Woolworths.
And I'm telling this author all this stuff, and I don't know if it's registering at all.
And I'm I'm frankly angry, I have to tell it.
I'm I'm I'm angry that I have to say this stuff.
Here's a guy doing a book on me, who I don't know if he thinks so, if he's just asking the question because he thinks readers are going to want to know it, but I didn't become a racist until somebody called me one.
When I started this radio show.
I wasn't a racist up until 1988.
And then somebody called me one.
And ever since I was called a racist, I've been one, according to the peep the media, and yet I never was one, and am not one now.
And all of you are racists.
Simply because you oppose Obama.
Every bit of this was predicted.
Now the thing to do, the thing to do here is laugh at it because Clarice Feldman uh has one more thing that she wants to say in uh in all of this.
He said, everybody, the American thinker, everyone in the political class, journalists, consultants, elected Democrats, and Republicans alike, need to know this.
Those countless little known people who established the local email lists, uh, organized first one and then two, then three or more chartered buses, held sign-making parties and packed box lunches, as they're not gonna go away anytime soon.
You continue to enact legislation we can't afford and deprives people of liberty, and they're gonna be back, perhaps in even greater numbers.
And that's exactly right.
Now the rally in Washington on Saturday had the right content, it was the right location, but I have a I have a for I I do want to posit an idea for the next series of public rallies.
And I do hope uh that these continue, and I hope that they grow.
Now, I have um often pointed out here that uh that people don't fully react to stories and situations until they see pictures.
As an illustration, I mean, we all know this, but I'll illustrate it for you.
Back when George H. W. Bush was president and uh we had all the uh the starving going on in Somalia.
It wasn't until the New York Times published a front page picture.
This is long before the internet was a big deal.
Internet might have not been a deal for the public back then.
New York Times published a picture of a starving young Somali boy with the insects obligatorily flying around the head.
Everybody had an outrage.
Do something!
Do something!
So we were move a mobilized to uh put the military over there is meals on wheels.
Something about the reality of a situation sinks in when it can be seen on TV.
And make no mistake about it, the Obama people saw it, Axelrod saw it, Axarod's out there saying, eh, these people are not mainstream Americans.
This White House continues to insult you.
This White House continues to run and campaign and govern against you.
Which is going to keep all of you fired up.
I do think, even though I understand it, I do think one of the great and tragic issues of our time is the deliberate withholding of coverage and investigations of stories by the media that would hurt the left's agenda, such as this most recent acorn stuff.
The media is no longer um reporters, they are repeaters.
In fact, over the weekend on what was it?
It had to be Saturday because I was watching football all day.
Saturday afternoon when they found the dead woman at Yale in the wall.
You should have seen the press questioning the local authorities there, as though they were lying through their teeth.
I mean, they weren't accepting anything.
Now, in the old days, that used to kind of make me mad, but I started wondering where is that kind of skepticism of the Obama administration on health care.
The media in Connecticut was going bonkers here, questioning law enforcement as they were giving their theories on what happened finding the dead woman in the wall.
And I say, wow.
It's an illustration of what no longer takes place when leftists run the country.
And I understand it, and I'm not lamenting it, because I know reality.
There have been hundreds and thousands of protests by conservative groups that haven't been covered.
Tiny turnouts by the left that are covered.
You know all this as well as I do.
What about this?
We're looking for a force multiplier.
Yeah, the protest in in Washington on Saturday was great, two million people.
But imagine what a force multiplier it would be if the next one were held outside of local and national television networks and their headquarters where they can't miss it.
Right there, on or next to the properties, housing the TV networks.
Dare them to cover what is right under their noses.
Put the media in the spotlight and on the hot seat.
Don't make them the protest.
Continue to protest Obama, protest health care, protest the loss of liberty, protest the coming tyranny.
Just do it on their property, or as close to it as you can get, being law abiding and all that.
Link the press with the Democrats.
Make them part of it, but not the focal point.
I'm not talking boycotts.
Don't like boycotts.
Just show up where they can't miss it.
Show up in numbers where they can't escape it.
Now these protests should be twofold.
The topics being protested today, with the addition of protesting coverage and lack of coverage, leaders of the media rallies should have a list of grievances by individual stations, make the challenges substantive and adult, and challenge their journalistic ethics.
In fact, we own the internet web domain to drive by media.com.
And I'm thinking maybe drive by media.com might be a way of organizing such a thing.
And I really do think the next time, and I'm not trying to create it.
I want this all to happen spontaneously.
But the next time something of this happens, you know, done Washington, that's great.
We got the truth out.
The British press, the uh so-called alternative media is getting the word out.
We've even, Michelle Malkin even posted a uh found a picture that the uh the nutroots on the left posted and said, This is a fake picture.
This is not a picture of the rally in Washington on Saturday, and it was teeming with people.
It was gazillions of people out there.
Um the nutroots were saying this is the Kennedy funeral procession, because the flags are at half staff.
And uh Michelle Mockin points out, no, the flags are at half-staff over the weekend for 9-11.
And commemorating the community service.
Now the picture was genuine.
They know.
They know what they're up against.
Olympia snows out there today saying no public option in the House Bill, it ain't gonna happen.
It will not be the case.
So there's um there is momentum here.
I'm a little long.
I've got to take a break, and I promise I'll come back and uh get some of your phone calls.
Plus, let me look here.
Okay, grab grab number some by 23 before we go to the break, February 22nd, this 2008.
This is what, sixteen months ago?
Sixteen months ago, said I. If Obama gets elected president, wouldn't it be good to just get this done, Russia?
We can end the civil rights squabbles that were having it wouldn't do that.
Folks, it wouldn't do that.
It might even exacerbate them.
Let me explain how.
And I go on to explain to people how it is that criticism of Obama will result in more charges of racism at the race industry will gin up.
Speaking of the race industry, the uh uh Reverend Jack in North Charleston, South Carolina, just this morning told a South Carolina audience the federal bailout has failed to create jobs in America.
Now, this is only obvious to everybody, but the Reverend Dak saying it has added impact to his audience.
As promised, it's now time to go to the phones.
We'll start in Chicago.
This is Patricia, and uh nice to have you here, Patricia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Um, been a long time listener, first-time caller, public school teacher back from Washington, D.C., the most electrifyingly exciting experience of my life.
I have gotten tons of emails over the weekend, people saying the same thing.
Yes.
Um I went with my brother, who is a retired firefighter, assistant fire chief.
My first observation is the numbers.
I could not I could not see the end of the sea of people.
It was a tsunami.
It was like watching a um erupting volcano.
Yeah, and it was peaceful, and there were some of the funniest signs I've ever seen.
One guy had a sign.
One guy had a sign that said, uh, doesn't matter what this sign says, they'll say it's racist anyway.
Just an absolutely fabulous sign.
And people were making some of the most creative signs out there.
It was there was uh what's the uh oh there was a picture of George Washington.
Picture George Washington uh with a with a bubble like in a cartoon with George Washington saying WTF.
What the is happening to our country?
It was fabulous.
And when it was all over, it was clean.
Just like Dan's bake sale.
Now the UK press, you talk about the numbers, folks.
I saw the drive-by's, they took tens of thousands of people.
Eventually somebody got the number uh pretty close to being right, but the UK media is saying two million.
Others in the conservatives are you know it's just tough to estimate.
We know you you do the best you can with previous crowds and what they have said.
Um but uh you look at the pictures and you try to estimate the grid, the number of people.
Doesn't matter, the place was teeming.
And it makes no surprise.
State control media would try to diminish it.
Warren, New Jersey, Gene, hello, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
I was not only in the march, I was part of the contingent that actually led it up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Um anyone who sees the YouTube video will see a group of uh looks like continental war uh soldier reenactors with a fife and drum corps.
Um I was one of the people that helped organize that to lead the parade, and we were supposed to meet up there at eight.
What a lot of people don't know is that the crowd was for the march were supposed to meet at Freedom Plaza at nine o'clock in the morning.
The reenactors were supposed to be there at eight o'clock.
I got there at 730.
When I got there at 730, there was over a thousand people in the plaza.
You mean to tell me a thousand racists showed up an hour and a half early?
I like to think of them as a thousand patriots.
Um and and they just kept pouring in.
Now the the parade itself, the march itself wasn't scheduled to begin until 1130.
But by 10 o'clock, there were several thousand people, and they were still pouring in.
I could see them coming in from every avenue leading to Freedom Plaza.
And the the district police were they they they were going crazy.
They didn't know what to do.
Traffic was being blocked, Pennsylvania Avenue was being blocked.
I know a lot of people, a lot of people on the ground in Washington were stunned by the size.
You weren't, and I wasn't.
Look at I know the rage that's that's cur curdling up, bubbling up out there, and it's real and it's not going away.
You know those those pro-amnesty rallies, uh immigration uh were they called racist?
Were those people called racists?
I mean, and La Raza organized and sponsored those rallies.
Were they called racists?
Of course they weren't.
Okay.
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