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Jan. 12, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 12, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Somehow, you know, I have I've purposely kept myself out of it.
I have not gone anywhere near it, other than a couple of mentions.
And somehow I've I've I've found myself involved now in this uh Massachusetts Senate race.
Um my pictures in an ad, the first attack ad that's been run by this cochley woman.
And I'm identified with George Bush and Cheney and Mitch McConnell as Washington Republican insiders.
And Bush and Cheney are not in Washington.
I'm not in Washington.
Certainly not an insider.
Uh but and and the the Republican is the dirty word in the uh in the in the campaign commercial.
Anyway, great to have you here, folks, as another uh uh uh exciting three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead.
The uh telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
This Scott Brown, he destroyed this Martha Coakley last night in the one and only debate that they're gonna have.
The election is a week from today.
Special election is a week from today.
The polling on this uh it's it's all over the place.
Uh the last I looked public policy polling, the liberal group out of North Carolina has Brown up by one.
Uh the Boston Globe has Cochley up by 15 or 9, whatever it is.
I think the average of the poll shows that Mark Martha Coakley is up by nine.
But I'll tell you, see, it's it's amazing.
This guy blew through a million dollars in one day yesterday.
Uh on a with a fundraising objective was $500,000, and they blew through collected more than one million dollars yesterday.
Uh, and it's just, you know, the Democrats are having to fight for the Ted Kennedy seat in Massachusetts.
And and and Brown had a great line about that in the debate.
It's not the Ted Kennedy seat.
It's not the Kennedy seat, it's not the Massachusetts seat, and it's not the Democrat seat.
It's the people seat.
Let's this this was the highlight of the debate.
Let's just go to it.
Um David Rodham Gurgen was the uh debate moderator uh last night, and they had a loaded question.
Are you willing?
This is David Rodham Gurgen's question to Scott Brown.
Are you willing to sit in Teddy Kennedy's seat and kill health care?
And here's the answer.
You said you're for health care reform, just not this bill.
If this bill fails, it could well be another 15 years before we see a health care reform efforts again in Washington.
Are you willing under those circumstances to say, I'm gonna sit in Teddy Kennedy's seat and I'm gonna be the person that's gonna block it for another 15 years.
Well, with all due respect, it's not the Kennedy seat, and it's not the Democrats' seat, it's the people's seat.
And uh, they have a chance to send somebody down there who's gonna be an independent voter and an independent thinker and going to look out for the best interest of the people of Massachusetts in the way that this bill's configured.
I'd like to send them back to the drawing board because I believe people should have insurance, not just this particular bill, because it's not good for the entire country.
You're talking about an additional trillion dollars of cost, a half a trillion dollars of Medicare cuts, and it's not good.
We need to go back to the drawing board.
Nobody has confidence in this bill.
Rado Rado Raddo Raddo.
He's right on the money about that.
And what a great comment.
Yeah, you're David Rodham Gurgen, I'm sure, that he was all set in his own mind to be the toast of the town when he got back to Washington and hit the cocktail circuit.
Hey, Dave, we really love the way you rammed it down old Scott Brown's throat.
You really have the guts to go in there and vote against health care reform in Teddy Kennedy's seat, and instead, Scott Brown rammed it right down that giant big Adams apple at David Rodham Gurgen has with that answer.
With all due respect, it's not the Kennedy's seat, and it's not the Democrat seat, it's the people's seat.
What a great, great line.
Now, the uh uh moderator David Rodham Gergen uh last night said to um uh I think Martha Coakley uh you'll only vote for the Senate bill.
I'll vote for the Senate bill or some reasonable facsimile of it.
Right.
Excuse me.
It's not going to be the Senate bill.
As you know, it's in conference committee now.
It's gonna come out, the bill is gonna be a compromise, and bottom line is regardless of what version comes out, this bill is not good for Massachusetts.
It's gonna cost us jobs.
Um now she is the entrenched uh machine candidate here.
She's attorney general or has been.
I don't I never heard of her until all this got started, but um any rate, she's she's just a uh a sock puppet, you know, for Harry Reid and the Democrats.
And she's she was uh it in the in the to and fro and the back and forth they had yesterday, you know, or last night in the debate, Brown had another good comeback.
Look, you're not a lawyer here, and I'm not under interrogation.
He's totally non-plussed uh by the situation he finds himself in.
And to show you how desperate they are getting, they're running an ad uh that calls uh Scott Brown a dirty word.
Uh the dirty word is Republican.
And this is the ad that shows images of Bush and Cheney, and yours truly, Il Rushbow.
I'm Martha Coakley, and I approve this message.
Who is Scott Brown, really?
A Republican in lockstep with Washington Republicans.
Help block tougher oversight of Wall Street, give more tax breaks to the wealthiest, oppose new prescription coverage for millions of seniors.
Brown even favors letting hospitals deny emergency contraception to rape victims.
He lacks understanding and seriousness.
In times like these, we can't afford a Republican like Scott Brown.
So they're relying here on the fact that there are a million more Democrat voters in Massachusetts than there are Republicans.
And uh Republican is the dirty word, Bush.
That's the first picture you see, Bush and Cheney.
Then it morphs to me and then on to Mitch McConnell and some of the uh Senate Republicans as this dirty word Republican.
And I, you know, purposely, I didn't mention the guy's fundraising yesterday.
And I'll tell you why I didn't have a lot of people email me yesterday.
Rush, Rush, how come you're not helping Scott Brown?
Cause folks.
I saw how it was going.
He didn't need any help.
You know, this is the the thing that that is uh it was like the Tea Party stuff last August.
It happened without a leader.
It was genuine.
It bubbled up.
It was ever vessing, uh, effervescent right out of the grassroots.
And just as this guy's support is, this guy didn't need anybody to out there plugging for him.
And if if uh if I had gotten involved uh and he raised all this money, what would have been said is that it all happened because Limbaugh was asking his mind-numbed robots from all over the country to send the guy a couple of bucks.
Now they can't say that, because I uh didn't get involved.
So they're they're panicking up there.
Uh and I just I think it's regardless how this comes out.
I think it's it's wonderful that that uh they're having to fight so hard to save uh what they call as the uh the Teddy Kennedy seat.
Now, let's go back here.
Um it's uh same December 2009.
This is an ad um from uh Scott Brown featuring former President John F. Kennedy.
For billions of dollars this bill will play in the hands of the consumer.
And our businessman will have both immediate and permanent benefits to our economy.
Every dollar released from taxation that is spent or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.
And these new jobs and new salaries can create other jobs and other salaries and more customers and more growth for an expanding American economy.
Yeah, and now what what what the video of that is really amazing.
Uh you uh the Kennedy starts out the ad with his talking about his tax cuts in the 60s, and then the footage morphs into a clip of Brown continuing to recite Kennedy's speech.
Uh it was uh really good.
You know, this this line here, uh, well, all due respect, uh, it's not the Kennedy's seat, and it's not the Democrats' seat, it's the people's seat.
That line is is pretty much it's it's akin to what uh remember uh Lord Benson and his line at Dan Quail in their uh in their debate back in 1992.
I knew it, Jack Kennedy.
Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine.
And Mr. Vice President, you are no Jack Kennedy.
And the you know, the the war hooping started uh in the hall, and it was just uh, you know, that that line is uh forever etched in uh the memory of everybody who watched it, political scientists.
This this response with all due respect, it's not the Kennedy seats, not the Democrat seat, it's the people's seat, and they have a chance to send somebody down there who's gonna be an independent, but it was just it's it's along it's along those lines.
So congratulations to Scott Brown.
Uh it's it's uh it's gonna be interesting to watch this.
This is a special election is one week from today.
All right, it's changing gears here for a split second.
This is going to annoy you and uh anger you as much as it uh did me.
A Navy SEAL accused of the mistreatment of an Iraqi detainee will be tried in a U.S. military court in Iraq.
A military judge in Virginia yesterday set the court martial of petty officer second-class Jonathan Keefe for April 6th at Camp Victory, site of the alleged abuse.
Keefe and another seal are accused of trying to cover up after a third seal allegedly punched an Iraqi suspected in a 2004 a suspected this is one of the Al-Qaeda leaders, one of the terrorist leaders.
They gave him a bloody lip.
And all of this is happening because of that.
Prosecutors said they would not bring the detainee to Norfolk to testify.
The judge ruled that Keefe has the right to face his accuser and moved his trial.
Keefe is from Yorktown, Virginia.
Now, we have we have uh uh a proudly confessed mass murdering terrorist, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed getting a 200 million dollar a year civilian trial in New York City.
But we cannot have a man brought from Iraq so that these preposterously accused Navy SEALs can confront his terrorist accuser.
What is wrong with our judicial system?
Now, I know this is the military uh judicial system we're we're talking about here, but for crying out loud, isn't one of these things that makes you think everything's upside down or turned to 180 degrees out of phase.
Uh Harry Reid wants it all to go away.
Harry Reid, now we got the audio coming up of this.
He's out there in Apex, Nevada, says he's not going to dwell on the Negro and uh Negro dialect and light-skinned comment uh anymore.
But that's okay, Harry, because we are.
We are going to continue to dwell on this, Harry.
Uh, in fact, a little bit of news here from the Hill.com, the Senate's embattled majority leader, is moving ahead with get this, stand by wait for it, and African Americans for Harry Reed event this week, as he uh seeks to weather a political firestorm sparked by his racially insensitive remarks about about uh about President Obama.
The timing of the launch of the African Americans for Harry Reed campaign group scheduled for Thursday in Las Vegas is coincidental.
The luncheon had been scheduled for weeks.
Uh Harry Reid has apologized to virtually everybody that he thinks matters, except the people that he really offended, the American people.
I mean, his comment really say that the American voter is still a racist schlub.
But anyway, he apologized uh for his light-skinned and no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one comment.
Of course, those comments in the uh new book titled Game Change.
You know, folks, we're learning more and more about what's in this book, game change.
And as I go through this, I am stunned.
I am stunned to see how little about Obama is in this book.
There's hardly anything about Obama.
It's loaded with stuff about the Edwards'.
We didn't get to that yesterday.
I still have it in the stack.
But they are finished.
Both of them.
And if you had any doubts about it, what a couple of frauds.
Both of them.
And it's amazing how many.
In fact, we might we might you know here's here's a thought for you to process.
Not that we can do anything about it.
But as you know, ladies and gentlemen, John Edwards called a press conference when it was learned that his wife's cancer had returned.
And all of the pundits, all of the inside people said we hear that we're just gonna drop out of the race.
Remember this?
And then Edwards called the press conference.
They showed up at Elizabeth, and far from dropping out, they said they're gonna keep going.
They're gonna keep going, despite her, oh, listen, they used it as a sympathy play to raise money, campaign money, and it worked.
It worked enough to keep Edwards alive into the Iowa caucuses.
And what happened, he ended up being a spoiler in the Hawkeye Cawkeye, enabling uh uh Uh himself and Hillary to split the opposition vote to Obama, and Obama won the Hawkeye Calcai by importing out of state voters and acorn people.
And if if Edwards had gotten out, that may not have happened.
We'll never know.
We'll never know.
But nevertheless, this this book has got, I mean, remore.
You remember the rumor?
Remember the rumor that there was a tape of Michelle Obama using the word whitey.
Hillary believed it, and Hillary was urging her staff to get it out there.
Get it out there.
And it's Sidney Blumenthal, Sid Vicious, was responsible for perpetrating as many rumors and so forth about Obama as possible.
And of course, Clinton, everybody's starting to ask now, okay, Clinton was having an affair.
Who?
With who?
These guys obviously know it.
The authors of the book obviously know who it is, and the people in the book who were afraid of Clinton having an affair.
I mean, Cheryl Mills was in charge of managing the whole thing, just like Betsy Betsy Wright was in charge of Bimbo eruptions in the 92 campaign.
Cheryl Mills was uh was charged with keeping a lid on whatever Clinton was doing, but everybody knew it.
They were they were they were convinced it was happening, and a lot of people said, Well, who was the woman?
Because everybody must know who it is.
So the uh and what people are concluding now, since the Clintons have not responded, people are concluding that the Clinton staff, former Clinton staffers are the sources.
We always wondered where are the Clinton tell all books?
They never happened.
Every administration has turncoats that write books after they leave to tell what really went on, but it never happened during the Clinton years.
Everybody's scared to death of them.
Now all of a sudden, sources have to be Clinton, Hillary, and Bill staffers and insiders for some of this data and information to have been um printed in the book, and the Clintons have not responded.
They have not said a word, and uh uh Washington officials, the Democrat Party are concluding that this is it.
This is the end of the vaunted and feared Clinton machine, that it no longer exists.
Oh, by the way, Harry Reed.
African Americans for Harry Reed.
There's a Facebook page to promote uh African Americans for Harry Reed, that event this Thursday.
Uh and the Facebook page lists five fans.
African Americans for Harry Reed, five fans, four of them are white.
Hey, Snerdley, would you grab me a cup of coffee?
You are supposed to fetch coffee.
You go fetch co because you are a Negro.
And that's what Bill Clinton said that Obama was doing just a few years ago.
He's talking to Ted Casey.
Hey, hey, Teddy, come on now.
Come on, man.
You know you don't want to endorse this guy a couple years ago.
This guy'd be fetching us our coffee.
Yeah, that's uh you know, and you know what?
The um I was I was uh I did something last night I haven't done in a long time, since there was no Monday night football.
I decided to really punish myself.
And I watched Monday night cable talk TV.
I'm channel surfing around there, and Lawrence O'Donnell's up there, and he's talking to Eugene Robinson, who was designated the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of the Washington Post, and Lawrence O'Donnell sitting in for uh the Uberdork was asking this guy, and how come there was no fallout from Rush Limbaugh calling Obama the magic Negro?
No fallout.
I didn't even call him that.
It was the LA Times that did it.
I say pretty soon they're gonna say that I'm the one that called Obama a Negro and a coffee fetcher.
And before this, before this is all over, I'm gonna end up being the one who said that.
In the uh in the drive-by-h- You mean the uh Heileman and uh and Halpern?
Who's going after him?
Who?
Oh, bloggers, the leftist blog.
Well, the leftist bloggers are going after the authors now for uh releasing this tidbit on Bill Clinton.
Well, I don't know.
It's fun to it, it's look it.
These people are so arrogant and condescending, they have all this power now that they're not even bothering to put a mask on themselves.
So we're seeing who they really are.
All of them.
They're nuts, they're kooks, they're liars, they're freaks.
They really are.
By the way, I need to correct myself.
There are now more than five fans on the African Americans for Harry Reed Facebook page.
Uh Last night there were only five.
Four of them were white.
Now there are uh eight hundred and sixty-three.
And probably more since I just mentioned it.
Uh eight hundred and sixty-three fans on the African Americans for Harry Reed Facebook page.
Uh 860 of them are white.
It just goes to show how many union people there are when you need them.
They're available.
By the way, have you heard the Democrats' latest panic attack?
Hey, if we don't get health care done, if we don't get it done, it's going to be 15 years before.
Fifteen years.
How about never for something like this?
Fifteen years?
Hell, the health care benefits, quote unquote, aren't going to be implemented for four years anyway.
If this does pass, what is this 15-year business?
We're shooting for never in the EIB network.
Lots of news about small business today about how uh unsettled small businessmen are over things uh happening.
In fact, there's a there's a uh hang on, the printing something out here just has got a great great line here at the end.
This is uh economic report from uh Market Watch.
Uh small index, uh small business index fell in December.
Firms are shedding jobs, cutting inventories amid weak sales, U.S. small businesses still shedding jobs, cutting inventories uh according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses.
Uh, the NFIB Small Business Index fell in December to 88 point zip from 88.3 in November, the lobbying organization said small business owners remain pessimistic, and that's totally understandable.
Hell, everybody else is too.
Profits are down, few owners say that now is a good time to expand.
You know, Bomb's out there, you know, beat up on the banks to lend.
Oh, and Obama's now thinking of levies.
The AP in its headline levies on banks.
And bonuses.
He's going to continue to target tax increases on people he thinks that you hate Wall Street banks, Wall Street people, uh, big banks not on Wall Street, all for the purpose of redistributing wealth.
And uh the small business people bankers in there, he said, you guys got to start lending.
The banker said, nobody wants to borrow, Mr. President.
They don't know what the the the the lay of the land's gonna be uh next year and beyond based on your policies.
So profits are down, few owners say that now's a good time to expand, sales are weak, more firms are cutting prices than raising them.
Inventories are still too high, capital spending plans are on hold.
More businesses are reducing jobs than our hiring, credit conditions remain tight.
The political climate is negative.
According to 830 business owners who responded to the NFIB survey, nearly half the businesses responding were in retail and construction.
Listen to the last line of the story.
Hang on just a second.
His first name.
Uh well, I gotta go back to the who is this guy.
Well, I don't know who this guy is.
I only have his last name.
At uh at at oh, here it is.
So why hasn't owner optimism soared like it usually does at the end of a recession, especially one that cuts so deeply into our economic fabric?
Asked William Dunkelberg, the NFIB chief economist.
The answer is hope and change.
There's little hope, and the change that's being delivered is far from encouraging.
Washington is offering nothing but higher taxes and fines and fees and more regulation.
Confidence in our political leadership has tanked, said uh William Dunkelberg.
And he's exactly right.
It has tanked.
Little hope.
The change that's being delivered is far from encouraging.
Washington offering nothing but higher taxes, fines, fees, more regulation.
Uh in this climate, there is no recovery.
And of course, ladies and gentlemen, this is, as I continue to say, being done purposefully.
Nobody in their right mind would continue this.
Bill McGurn with a piece today to Wall Street Journal.
They're targeting a second stimulus, but they will not use the word.
They will not use the word stimulus.
They're going to start talking about job creation, targeted, what is it?
Targeted uh uh targeted spending, targeted ideas, targeted investment.
That's going to be the new lexicon for what will be the second stimulus.
If there is indeed a second stimulus, don't anybody ever doubt me that this is being done on purpose.
In the face of one year's worth of evidence that it's doing the exact opposite of what they promised, to double down on it.
Uh i it under the premise we haven't done enough.
Uh is just it will be unmistakable at that point.
By the way, you know, yesterday, uh, ladies and gentlemen, snurdly you didn't hear this because Snurley was flying back from his vacation.
But yesterday I was I was uh uh ruminating here on a on a potential movie when Harry met Robert.
Um and and I I went through um various scenarios that could take place uh in this uh movie.
Harry meets Robert Byrd, uh so forth.
And and we've actually come up here with a with a with a storyline presentation uh that uh might provide here a jumping off point to actually produce this thing.
Reverend Sharpton with the bullhorn wherever he happens to go.
Mark McGuire came clean all day yesterday and last night on his uh steroid usage and human growth hormone for ten years, and he admitted that uh he used the substances during his uh record breaking home run season of uh of nineteen ninety-eight.
The interesting thing he said was that he doesn't believe taking the steroids and the HGH had a thing to do with his home run production.
Uh it didn't it didn't even cross his mind, he said.
He said that uh uh he just wanted to stay healthy.
He got tired of being on the disabled list, tired of being injured all the time, tired of going to rehab, uh, and he just wanted to feel normal.
And that's why he took the uh took the steroids.
Now, I don't think this surprised anybody.
Folks, it's I mean it follows baseball that followed any of this.
Uh Mark McGuire confessing he took steroids would be like Obama confessing that the stimulus bill is actually a slush fund.
Everybody knows that too.
Um anybody surprised about McGuire would be surprised about Obama.
Uh it's it's like being surprised that emails from so-called climatologists contained admissions they were hiding and denying the decline in global temperatures, or that Obamacare is really about the control of every aspect of our lives.
Like being surprised that the Fort Hood massacre and the Christmas Day bomber were part of a massive ongoing coordinated effort by Muslim extremists.
It's like being surprised that the surge worked.
Um we don't need an admission by Obama or any other statist.
Years to come to know the uh to know the obvious.
So it's it's uh anyway, a lot of people are uh I was watching, I was watching the sports media last night.
As I was saying, I was channel surfing all around, and I found it fascinating to listen to the sports media discuss whether or not this hurts or helped McGuire's potential to get into the Hall of Fame.
And uh they actually debated it.
Well, I think it's very good.
It's really, really good for him.
I don't know about the Holophema.
I'm uh yeah uh I don't know.
I I don't know how there's any question about this.
You have the sports media leading the way against steroid usage.
The sports media was all over.
They cared twenty times more about it than the baseball fan, average baseball fan did.
To think that they're not gonna turn around because he admitted it and vote him in when he's admitted basically to cheating, I don't.
Well, you know, time can can heal a lot of things.
But I I've I I thought it was uh fascinating to watch these guys ruminate about this.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, Obama's approval rating is dipped to a new low in the CBS New York Times poll.
Obama's job approval rating has fallen to forty six percent in the CBS poll.
That rating is Obama's lowest yet in the CBS news polling, and the poll marks the first time his approval rating has fallen below the 50% mark.
Forty-one percent now say they disapprove of Obama's performance as president.
Last month the CBS News poll 50% approved of how he was doing his gig.
Mr. Obama still receives strong support from Democrats.
80% of them approve of his performance, but his approval rating among Republicans is only 13%.
More importantly, Mr. Obama's approval rating among independents has declined 10 points in recent months, now stands at just 42%.
The president's marks on handling health care.
Just 36% approve.
And that dovetails with uh with Rasmussen and pretty much all the other polls.
Just 36% of the American people approve, and yet the Democrats proceed behind closed doors, governing against the will of the American people.
Nobody.
36% is nothing.
36% The way to look at this is 54% want no part of it.
54%, and yet they proceed on, and Obama talks to people as though we're the ones that want it, and the only problem are the uh arguing warring factions in the House and the Senate.
Just exact options.
By the way, Bush's approval numbers.
It took years for the drive-by's and the Democrats to get Bush's numbers below 50%.
It took years of constant, nonstop, venomous, unrelenting Democrat bashing.
And of course, not much of a defense from the Bush White House.
Here you've had the drive-by media.
And for all of you who think the media is unconquerable, for those of you who think that the media gets everything they want, and we can't stop them.
The media has done everything possible to boy this guy.
They have done everything they can.
They have become repeaters.
They are propagandists.
They're not journalists.
They are propping this guy up.
They are supporting him every which way possible, and still.
His approval number has fallen to 46%, all by his own self.
He has accomplished this all by his own self in just 12.
Well, I was going to say short months, but they seem very long at times.
Spencer Davis group.
We get back into the programming portion of the Rush Limbaugh program.
By the way, that debate last night between Martha Cookley and Scott Brown.
There was one serious gaffe, and it was made by Martha Cookley when she said there are no terrorists left in Afghanistan.
That they've all gone to Pakistan and uh and Iraq, something.
There are no terrorists, no Taliban, no Al-Qaeda left in Afghanistan.
Now that's that's big.
I mean, that that you can talk about all you want about stupid, idiotic, uninformed people.
That that is just misstatement.
I mean, that's ignorant.
That is pure ignorance.
Uh, and and it's I'm I'm I know where it came from.
I'll bet you 10 to when it came from her debate prep, where she was supposed to sit there and praise Obama's efforts here.
Uh and in in doing so, oh, yeah, we're no terrorists left there.
We have Obama's oh she didn't say Obama.
I'm just saying that's probably what the prep was.
If it comes up, you know, Obama's doing a great job, no terrorists left in Afghanistan.
That's that's reminiscent of Gerald Ford uh 1976, saying you're no communists in Poland.
Uh, when of course it was uh was being run by communists.
Okay, to the phones we go to Albert in Bedford, Texas.
We'll start with you today, sir.
Albert dropped off.
Oh no.
Oh no.
Tell me what he was going to say.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Uh uh, but it was Bill Clinton that said it, not Hillary.
Bill Clinton's never been a senator.
Old Albert from Bedford, Texas, was going to say that what Bill Clinton said of Teddy Kennedy was not racist.
Because that's just the way it is in the in the in the Senate.
Junior senators uh that makes no sense.
Bill Cl Bill Clinton said to Ted Kennedy, hey, come on, Ted.
I mean, a few years ago, this guy'd be fetching us coffee.
But Bill, you Bill Clinton anybody want that's why I wanted to take the call.
I wanted to hear how that is not racist.
I saw I saw Willie Brown last night.
Willie Brown was uh was on was on one of the cable shows, and he and and I was surprised at how little attention the Clinton comment is getting.
Even uh uh on Fox, it didn't get much comment.
Everybody's focusing on what Harry Reed said.
But this this Clinton comment, come on, Ted.
I mean, you know, a couple of years ago, we'd be f this guy be fetching us coffee.
Um hardly any attention paid to that at all.
Willie Brown said, there's not a racist bone in Bill Clinton's body.
Not a racist bone in Bill Clinton's body.
How can you say that after the campaign of 2008, the primary campaign for crying out loud, the Democrat Party was full of nothing but racism and bigotry and debating whether or not Obama was authentic.
Anyway, these people are good at circling the wagons.
They do not throw their own people uh overboard.
Fort Collins, Colorado.
Ed, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Good morning, Rush.
Uh, maybe it's afternoon where you are.
Um so Harry Reed probably has a lot of black friends.
In my life, I've had lots of black friends, and I presume you have too.
In a previous city in which we lived, we discussed these race issues openly.
And and my black friends were telling me that high yellow blacks did better.
They got better dates, they got married, uh, better companions, they got better jobs, they got quicker promotions, and they used um Colin Powell as an example of that.
And and so wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, just to say what's the term high yellow?
High yellow, yeah.
And I've been blessed with a lot of black friends that we can talk openly about race without it being racial or racist, and and that's the term they use to describe light-skinned black.
Uh so Rush uh Harry surrounds himself with people like this who are talking like this, I presume.
I don't think it's a secret code.
It certainly wasn't in my experience with my black friends.
So that so that he heard that term.
He's felt that term in his associations.
So he stupidly used it in his book without some kind of footnote or explanation.
Well, no, he was no, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
He didn't write the book.
He said it on deep background to uh to some friends who then told it to the reporters and so forth.
Um we can argue over whether it's uh racist or not.
It look it.
I'm not gonna let the double standard uh survive here.
It's racist.
It's racist, period simple.
I gotta go.
I'm long.
You know, shouldn't this group uh African American friends of Harry Reed shouldn't they call that group light skinned Negroes Without Accents for Harry Reed?
Why uh let's be accurate here.
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