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Jan. 12, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 12, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #2
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So uh the uh the uh this group, African American friends, uh for Harry Reid, big big deal, uh dinner or something on on Thursday.
And I actually think that they should change the name of this group.
Shouldn't it be called light-skinned Negroes Without Accents or dialects for Harry Reed.
The uh the the uh lead spokesman is Donna Brazil at the light-skinned Negroes Without Dialects for Harry Reed event.
Now, this is the same Donna Brazil who, when she was Al Gore's campaign manager in 2000, called the Republican Party the party of the white boys.
She did.
White boy attitude, explained Brazil is I must exclude denigrate and leave behind.
They don't see it or think about it.
It's it's a culture.
She later said of uh of J.C. Watts and uh Secretary of State Colin Powell, they'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them.
Uh both Powell and Watts called her comments racist.
Uh, this is this is this is Donna Brazil, who is the main speaker at the uh light-skinned Negroes Without Dialects for Harry Reed event on Thursday.
I think that this is um I think this is uh Oh, yeah, they'll be serving coffee at this thing.
Uh it's in Las Vegas on uh on Thursday.
Of course they're gonna be serving coffee.
Uh and I I you know, folks, I don't know uh if if uh she speaks the Negro dialect or not.
I'm so confused about all this now that I we just have to wait for Harry Reid uh to clarify all this for us.
Here's Obama.
Um let's see.
Uh I guess next Monday TV one's Living the Dream, an interview with Obama.
I guess they've pre-taped it.
Uh but it's gonna run on Monday.
Maybe it did.
I'm not sure.
If it ran last Monday or yesterday, it was going to run next Monday.
But this is what Obama said about Dingy Harry.
Harry Reid is a friend of mine.
He has been a stalwart champion of voting rights, civil rights.
He's spending a lot of his political capital in the middle of an election to provide health care to every American.
You lie.
And that's gonna have a great impact on uh African Americans and Latinos around the country.
This is a good man who has always been on the right side of history.
For him to have used uh some inartful language in trying to praise me, and for people to try to make hay out of that makes absolutely no sense.
Well, yes, it makes total sense.
Uh spending a lot of his political capital in the middle of an election to provide health care to every American.
That's not gonna happen.
It's not gonna happen.
Everybody, by the way, in the in the political class, the pundit class, think Harry Reed's toast.
It's al it's almost they say it's a foregone conclusion, the guy's gonna lose in November.
So they say Harry Reid um is always on the right side of history.
Harry Reed, always on the right side of history.
Let's go back to April 19th of 2000.
This war is lost, and that the surge is not accomplishing anything.
This war is lost.
And the surge is not accomplished.
Yeah, right side of history.
Harry Dingy, Harry Reed.
Here's a montage.
A talking point uh went out yesterday that Harry Reid's record shows that he's not racist.
Um how do you get a stellar record like Harry Reed?
There's only one way that you can get a stellar record like Harry Reed, and that's to have a D next to your name.
So we put a montage here of liberals praising Harry Reed's record on race.
Senator Harry Reid has an A record from the NAACP.
legislative record in working with African Americans and for African Americans that Harry Reid has.
His very positive public policy record on civil rights.
The majority leader has a positive record in the area of civil rights.
Look at his record.
The kind of uh record that Reed has on civil rights.
Harry Reed's got a pretty clean record.
He has a deep record of supporting black causes, black people, civil rights.
Harry Reid's record.
When it comes to uh Senator Reed's uh record with uh the NAACP, there's nothing racial about this.
Harry Reed's record suggests that he's been uh quite supportive of the interest of African American people.
Harry Reid had a pretty uh impressive uh civil rights record.
Harry Reid his record, and this is a person who has stood for equal justice.
I don't think Harry Reed's a racist.
There's nothing in his record to indicate that.
All right, so the memo went out, and the talking points went out, and it was uh it was Harry Reed's record.
Now, you know, when people are accused of being racist, or when they were accused of racism, one of the worst things that you can do is to say, well, I don't know.
Look at all my black friends.
That's one of the worst things you can do.
We've always been told that's one of the worst things you can do.
Yet, yesterday afternoon in Apex, Nevada, a montage of remarks.
Harry Reid naming all of his black friends.
Julian Bond, attorney general of the United States, Eric Holder, the wonderful editorial in the LA Times Today, and a number of things on the Huffington Post.
Uh the highest ranking African American in Congress, Jim Clyburn, Merv Dimley, me and I were lieutenant governors together.
Uh I'm very aware of the fact that the first African American to serve on the federal court in the state of Nevada was a direct worked I did, recommending Johnny Rollinson to President Clinton.
I got a call last night.
From Secretary Salazar, Joe Neal who served in the Senate in the last eight cent longer than any other African American, majority leader of the Senate here in Nevada, Stephen Horse for I he's one of my proteges.
Man, oh man, oh man, folks.
This is you know I I guarantee you there's nobody else to get away with this.
Well, see well, well, I don't know, Julian Bond.
Is he uh high yellow?
So John now what's the light skinned or high yellow?
I've never heard this term interchangeable.
I never heard the term high yellow.
All right.
All right.
Um Julian Bond.
Eric Holder, light light skinned Negro.
Um uh editorial writer at the LA Times.
Uh we have to assume light skinned Negro, highest ranking African American Congress, Jim Clyburn.
Not light skinned, not light.
Uh Murph Dimeley, uh uh.
You got to assume with the name Murphy's light-skinned.
Uh let's see, uh the uh see uh uh Johnny Rollinson.
Say sounds light-skinned too, yeah.
Uh and uh Secretary Sallows is a Hispanic.
Light skinned Hispanic, uh Joe Neil served in the Nevada Senate uh longer than any other African American.
Uh majority leader Joe Neal.
I mean it.
Sounds light-skinned to me.
Uh and I assume, by the way, all these people do not have uh Negro dialects.
If they're light skinned.
Now, don't those two things go hand in hand?
See what Harry Reed's teaching us here?
What a wonderful people say Harry Holder said we're afraid to discuss race in this country.
No, not here.
We're not afraid of it.
Uh uh, Harry Reid's leading a most wonderful discussion on this subject now.
Uh and uh uh allowing uh everybody here to uh benefit from uh his wisdom, uh his knowledge of his uh clean and pure as the white wind-driven snow record.
Uh ladies.
All right, um Harry choked up uh yesterday afternoon, Apex Nevada seems to choke up as he talks about endorsing Obama and says he's not gonna dwell on this.
I am very proud of the fact.
I can still remember the meeting that took place in my office with Senator Barack Obama.
Light skinned telling him that I think he can be elected president.
And uh I'm sure there were others, but he was kind of surprised that uh Democratic leader was calling this new Senate over to suggest that he could be elected president.
I've apologized to the president, I've apologized to everyone that is in the sound of my voice that I could have used a better choice of words.
I've not going to dwell on this anymore.
It's in the book.
I've made all the statements I'm going to.
Okay.
Uh He's not going to dwell on it, but of course we are.
I, you know, we we could say, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that Harry's statements here and Harry's record.
Deep and wide.
Deep and wide.
I know somebody gets it snurly.
Where's my coffee, by the way?
I asked for it an hour ago.
Oh, folks, do you remember this?
Uh July the 9th, uh, 2008.
Uh, the Reverend Jackson, uh, on a live mic that he didn't know was live, said that he wanted to castrate Barack Obama.
You remember this?
Uh U.S. civil rights leader, the Reverend O'Jackson, complained on Tuesday that Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama can seem to be talking down to black people at times, and should broaden his message.
Uh, but the uh Reverend Doc apologized for a crude and disparaging remark about Obama at the weekend while he was speaking into an open microphone he thought had been turned off.
The uh the Reverend Jack uh talking to CNN on Wednesday said Obama has given what amounts to lectures at African American churches.
I said it can come off as speaking down to black people.
The moral message must be a much broader message.
What we we need really is racial justice and urban policy, jobs and health care.
There's a range of issues on the menu.
And then I said something I felt regret for.
It was crude, it was very private, very much a soundbite a life, Mike.
I find no comfort in it, I find no joy in it, and that is I wanted to cut his nuts off.
And he even gave a little hand gesture there to indicate how that would happen.
So we're the Reverend Jackson did too.
Oh, yes, that's right.
The Reverend O'Jackson did indeed use the N-word.
What was the context of that?
What was the uh when did he?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, that's right.
That's what he's talking about Obama.
He used the N-word when he said, I want to cut that in-word nuts all.
That's that's what it was.
Exactly right.
You know, um Snurdley and I were discussing this at the top of the hour.
Seems like most of uh President Obama's black friends are uh light-skinned, high yellow.
You got Jeremiah Wright.
You have Valerie Jarrett, you have Eric Holder, uh, and Calypso Lewis.
Colin Powell.
Oh, oh, do you know the UK Telegraph is doing their annual 100 most influential conservatives and liberals?
And they start at number 100, and they publish 20 of them a day.
And they'll get the top 20 on Friday.
So I looked at the hot 100 list of liberals today, and I think at number 81 is Obama's dog.
Bo.
Number 78 on a 100 most influential list is Colin Powell, the most influential liberal list, which the media in our country tell us, of course, he's the quintessential Republican.
A quick timeout back after the guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos.
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And even the good times.
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Charlie Cook.
Uh, this is uh on the Investors Business Daily Blog.
Charlie Cook, we've been talking about him the past couple days.
He's a uh well-respected, highly reputed inside the Beltway of political analyst polster, and what have you.
Writes a newsletter.
And the veteran election analyst, Charlie Cook says the last several weeks have been gruesome and psychologically devastating for the Democrats.
And he says that nine Democrat Senate seats are now in play.
The most endangered after Byron Helmut Head Dorgan's open seat in North Dakota are the open seats in Delaware and in Illinois, followed by Nevada, that's Dingy Harry's seat.
Uh Michelle or Michael Bennett, Democrat Colorado, Blanche, the Lincoln, Democrat Arkansas, and Arlan Spector.
Democrat Pennsylvania and in Dodd's open seat and that of Barbara Boxer, California, puts a total of nine seats in play, and that does not include the January 19 Massachusetts special election, where the uh GOP state Senator Scott Brown may be neck and neck with the Democrat Attorney General Martha Coakley, all told that Charlie Cook predicts the Republicans will likely pick up between four and six Senate seats this fall.
The Democrats currently hold fifty-eight plus two independents, which gives them a sixty-seat supermajority.
As for the House, uh Charlie Cook doesn't think a Democrats have yet reached the tipping point of retirements and other mishaps that could seriously threaten their control, but he says it's close.
And right now it's uh 20 to 30 seat loss that seems most likely for the Democrats in the House of Representatives.
Who's next on the uh on the phones?
Where do we go on next?
We're gonna go to uh line uh uh line two.
Sarah in Decatur, Illinois.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Oh, it's so good to talk to you.
Thank you.
Um I just want to quickly say before I get to my point that um you've really helped me find my voice in college, and I use your stack of stuff every day to help me prepare for what I deal with in the classroom.
Thank you, thank you.
Thank you so much.
I couldn't be more grateful.
Thank you.
Uh my point is is that I've never ever believed that Obama has ever had his own agenda.
Um I've always believed that he was just the perfect person to push in front of the American people to push the agenda of Pelosi and Reed and the such.
And I'm just really confused about the lack of outrage here over these recent what I consider racist comments.
Um I would imagine that someone is educated and someone who thinks so highly of himself as Obama does, um, would be outraged to hear Clinton say that Obama should be getting him coffee.
Is this I guess my act my question is is this all about health care or am I missing something?
I just I don't understand.
Well, look, there's no love lost between Clinton and Obama in the first place.
Nobody's making a big deal about the Clinton comment.
I think for exactly that reason.
They don't want to have a bunch of negative fall that they're focusing on on Harry Reed.
But there is pl uh outside the beltway, all kinds of people are focusing on the on the Clinton comment.
But it is that one is more outrageous than the Reed comment.
Oh, it is my opinion.
Oh, by far.
By far.
That's why we spent more time on Clinton yesterday than than we did Reed.
We're getting to Harry Reed today, even though we did Reed yesterday as well.
Okay.
But no, this is this is all about health care.
Clinton uh is not part of the health care fight, thinking he can be ignored right now.
Obama needs Harry Reid in there.
Uh, and and and show you Obama Obama's destroying his party.
Six, four to six, maybe even more seats in the Senate gone.
Twenty to thirty seats in the House gone.
He doesn't care.
It's all about him.
Of course he's gonna praise Harry Reed.
Harry Reid's gonna lose his Senate seat and his majority leader status.
And you know who's out there already running for that?
You know who's already laying the groundwork to become the new majority leader is is uh uh Chuck Hugh Schumer.
Chuck Schumer is out there trying to become the new majority leader.
Yeah, there's a column in the New York Post today's, I think it's the New York Post, upset with Schumer because he's forgetting state of New York issues as he lays the groundwork to become the new majority leader in the uh in the Senate, if uh if they hold on to it, uh the uh the majority.
Now, as to your point about Obama being uh basically a figurehead.
A lot of people have gone back and forth on this, and he may he may be.
I mean, somebody may have uh decided somewhere down the line that here's a guy can't lose.
America's ready to try to assuage its guilt over the original sin of slavery.
You get a light-skinned Negro with no dialect out there, and you put him on a ticket, and bamboo.
If you sound smart, can do it.
But whether that's true or not, Sarah, make no mistake about this.
This is Obama's agenda.
He is not a figurehead when it comes to this.
Obama is animated.
He's not a cool, calm customer, he's a cold calculating one.
And he has a vision of America that is not yours and not mine.
The way he's been educated on this country uh is not the way you and I were educated.
He believes that this country has exploited the world for selfish reasons, that we have plundered the earth of resources that belong to other poor people in poor countries, all to make our lifestyles advanced.
That we have gotten wealthy in unjust and immoral ways, that we have uh uh spread pestilence, that we have caused war, that we have killed billions of people.
This is what he was educated to believe, and it's uh it's it's what he does believe.
Uh and he's got a chip on his shoulder about about this country.
He's out to change it.
When he says he's going to remake America, he means it.
And this is exactly what he's doing.
And his economic plans are falling right into play.
The redistribution of wealth, the prevention of the creation of wealth in the future.
This is uh he he he believes that the real look at I've always said the the way to understand Obama is that he seeks to return the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.
Now, in his view, the rightful owners are unions, working families, which are unions, minorities, women, whatever.
The the uh the evil majority in this country, which in his view has always been white, uh, needs to be taken down a peg.
They have unfairly enriched themselves at the expense of everybody else.
And so he's he's charted a course, and he believes it.
Whether he's a figurehead or not, whether he was selected, he still believes it.
This is his agenda.
This is what he wants for the country, and this is what his policies objectives are.
And lest we forget, ladies and gentlemen, December 10th of 2007.
Andrew Young, who was then a uh supporter of uh, I believe uh Hillary Clinton.
Uh now this used to be on CNN, but they've uh they've taken it down and YouTube's taken it down as well.
But um no, Andrew Young was he was for Obama and he said what show was this on?
Uh Situation Room.
Andrew Young.
He said, I want Barack Obama to be president twenty sixteen.
Not she was for Hillary, I'm sorry.
I want I want Barack Obama to be president in 2016.
Barack Obama does not have the support network yet to get to be president, the Clintons.
The Clintons have.
He's smart, he's brilliant, but you can't be president alone.
Hillary Clinton, first of all, has Bill behind her, and Bill is every bit as black as Barack.
In fact, he's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
Remember that?
Andrew Young.
That's December 10th of 2007.
If you if you read about the Clintons when Clinton decided to run Hillary set up a defense committee, that's what they called it.
You know what it was?
It was go around and neutralize all the women he'd ever been involved with.
She got her friends to be the defense committee to protect him from the attacks.
But Bill's probably been with more black women than Barack has.
So I mean, the the uh the notion here that these people are just innocent and have no what uh racial uh uh thoughts, motivations, the records are clean, and so it's all a big sham.
Here's Jim Clyburn, who is the uh uh the the head honchos, the grand poo bah, the congressional black caucus, and he was on MSNBC last night.
He was asked, Do you think Republicans are really concerned about racial insensitivity?
I don't know why people uh making such a fuss about this.
What is a big fuss about the word Negro?
Uh I support the United Negro College Fund.
Uh I support the National Council of Negro women.
We still use those two terms uh because they have been a part of our history for a long time.
And so I don't know what all this fuss is about.
Harold Reid is one of the most stand-up guys I've ever met uh in my life.
You looked at his record.
He has a record uh that I think all of us uh in the African American community uh can be proud of and can support.
Quit Trent Lott said uh was not deserving of his resignation.
I said it then, and I still believe that.
And uh okay, so uh uh uh uh I'm now I'm s I'm just confused.
I'm confused because Mr. Clyburn here says what's all the fuss over the word Negro.
Uh but then, as I mentioned, fill-in host Lawrence O'Donnell on uh on Mess NBC last night, talking to Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post.
I'm trying to remember all of the Republicans who rushed to the microphone to condemn Rush Limbaugh for calling Barack Obama Barack the Magic Negro.
I'm trying to remember if Senator Corny from Texas rushed up to the microphone to condemn Rush.
Can you think of any Republican senators who condemned Rush Limbaugh for that?
You know, they're not springing to mine.
Now I'm not gonna say that there weren't any.
I'd have to go back and look at the clips and see uh, but but I don't recall a similar outpouring uh in that occasion, Lawrence.
Unbelievable.
This is why I said at the top of the show.
Before this week is out, I will be the one who uttered the words light-skinned and doesn't speak uh Negro dialect when he does.
I'll be the one that said it.
Before the week is out, I'll be the one that said it, not Harry Reed.
And they'll be asking, why have you not condemned Rush Limbaugh for what he said in repeating what Harry Reed said?
And Harry Reed will condemn me from the Senate floor.
I did not make up the term magic Negro.
It was a column headline and the subject of a column by a black columnist, the LA Times.
You people all know this because talking about what Harry Reid just said, the whole point of the magic Negro column was it's a it's it's a Negro that doesn't make white people nervous.
The magic Negro.
Uh uh, we just put all of these together into a terrific uh parody tune sung by the Reverend Sharpton.
There's a reason we had Sharpton sing it because he was upset that Obama was getting all this praise.
Biden had gone out there and said, Finally, we got a clean, articulate black guy in our party running for president.
And Sharpton was offended by that.
And uh and and well, I don't know if he uses Negro dialect.
That's for Harry Reed to determine.
I wouldn't know.
Don't pin that on me.
Russ Feingold, this is a guy.
I I uh you gotta hear this.
He is wrestling with himself over whether or not Harry Reed should resign.
He can't figure this out.
He doesn't know what he ought to believe.
He was on WTMJ Channel 4 in Milwaukee.
Unidentified reporters said, what about Harry Reed's racially charged comments?
Very unfortunate should never have been said.
Uh I really am disappointed.
Will you call for his censure?
I'm gonna go meet with Senator Reed and my Democratic colleagues and talk about what should be done.
I he keep it wasn't through.
I'm thinking about that, and we're gonna be getting together as a caucus next week, and that topic will come up.
I have not decided whether these comments merit that or not.
They're very unfortunate.
They should have never been said.
Uh so I need to think about it.
He was asked if if Reed needs to resign.
Can you believe he's struggling over this?
Struggling to be the good liberal.
Got to be the good liberal.
Means he can't, he's got to be open-minded.
He's got to recognize how horrible this was.
He's got to recognize it.
Should not have been very unfortunate.
He's really disappointed, but he doesn't know what ought to be done about it.
Because he's got to portray himself as open-minded and uh and thoughtful.
Now, in Albany, New York, after a speech to family planning advocates, meaning pro-abort people, New York Governor David Patterson said this about Dingy Harry.
I thought the comments not only were were reprehensible, but it's amazing that they could print a whole book.
And so many people saw it.
Nobody noticed that this ill-chosen remark was in the book.
What?
Everybody's noticed it.
Everybody what is he talking about?
Nobody noticed it.
They printed a whole book that so many people saw nobody noticed this ill-chosen remark was in the bo.
You know what I think he meant to say?
What I said yesterday.
How do these guys sit on all this stuff?
All this stuff.
These are two journalists, all of this dirt on the Democrats, and they sit on it all through the campaign.
They bury it for the sake of what?
No, winning an election, yes, but they saved it for the sake of profit.
They saved the information for a book which is being sold for cash money.
They saved it, they withheld the news for profit.
They don't like their own news organizations earning a profit.
They don't like big oil earning a profit.
They don't like big pharmaceuticals earning a profit.
They don't like Walmart earning a profit.
But when it comes to them, they gotta make a profit.
So yeah, it was about steering an election, but it was also about saving the dynamite for the sale of a book.
Uh Doug Wilder.
By the way, um the uh has a has an effect named for him, the uh Wilder effect.
Uh Doug Wilder, the former governor of Virginia, he was on your world with Neil Cavuto.
And Cavuto said, enough Republicans say Harry Reid should resign.
You say no, but you draw some distinction.
What do you mean?
I think his remarks were reprehensible, uncalled for.
And they were not a spur of the moment thing, Neil.
It wasn't anything that's oops, I'm sorry I said that.
This was in a book.
Which means that you you had a chance to correct it, edit it, uh, do whatever you will with it.
But for read to suggest that there is a difference so prevalent in the African American community that it should be spilled over, otherwise for people to see in terms of skin color.
That if you're dark-skinned and if you have a thick dialect, uh, that uh it makes you less uh acceptable or less attractive.
To say that and to say that it's uh it's okay to say it is wrong.
Well, so there's a uh a wide divergent pattern here on uh on the uh opinions here of Dingy Harry.
Uh that we should point out that uh that the Governor Wilder is light-skinned, and uh does not have the obvious Negro dialect.
Folks, I have found it.
I have found a group of people in Washington who are working to create jobs.
There is a group seeking to do that.
It's the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donahue warned that the U.S. faces a double dip recession because of the taxes and regulations under consideration by the Democrat Congress and President Obama.
Congress, the administration, and states must recognize that our weak economy is simply could not sustain all these new taxes.
Regulations and mandates now under consideration, it is a sure fire recipe for a double dip recession or worse.
Donnahu said this in a speech, providing the chamber's outlook for 2010.
He's exactly right, and that's why I say it's being done on purpose.
Here's a quote from the uh from the piece.
The business lobby has set out a goal of creating 20 million new jobs over the next 10 years.
How many new jobs did Jennifer Granholm say she's gonna create in 10 years in the green?
Forty?
400, 40, what was it, 400 jobs, 40 jobs uh in in the green uh technology area?
Big whoop.
Uh another quote: the chamber would be more involved in a 2010 midterm election than it has been in any other before, and it will hold accountable lawmakers who vote against the group's priorities.
The U.S. chambers ticked off.
Obama went after them out there, and the big media went after them, and they're getting back in the game big time doubling down.
So there is a group in Washington, D.C. working to create jobs.
Here, by the way, the audio sound bites of uh of Andrew Young from uh from 2000, uh former UN ambassador, uh governor uh of uh of Georgia, uh, and is uh is on CNN audience members says two words, Barack Obama, would you care to comment?
I want Barack Obama to be president in 2016.
Barack Obama does not have the support network yet to get to be president.
The Clintons have he's a smart, he's brilliant.
But you cannot be president alone.
Hillary Clinton, first of all, has Bill behind you.
And Bill has ever been as black as Barack.
He's probably on more black women than Barack.
All right.
Well, there you have it.
Andrew Young.
Uh again, uh, would you say light-skinned?
Definitely light-skinned.
I'm I'm turning, in case you're wondering, I'm asking the official Obama criticizer to determine for me whether these are uh light-skinned Negroes that we're talking about here.
Uh and the official Obama criticizers not light screened.
We uh screened uh skinned.
Um would you agree with that?
Okay, okay.
Oh, a official Obama criticizer is offended by Harry Reed's remarks.
Right.
Uh because you are not light-skinned, is that why you're offended?
Uh let's okay.
Let's let's hear from the official Obama criticizer uh uh both snerdly.
Uh we got the technical set up to uh to do this.
Are you ready to go?
All right, he's uh calling you at the what did you say he's calling?
I said uh Harry Reed, uh, sir, has officially uh in not so many words called those of us that are not light-skinned darky ebonics.
And I don't appreciate that.
You know, I mean, this is America.
This is 2000.
We're supposed to be in a post-racial uh harmonious environment, and here you have the Senate leader basically has put divided black people amongst themselves, has said that some of us are better because of the light color of our skin, and some of us are not good because we are dark, dark keys.
I don't appreciate it.
Why, this is a throwback to Jim Crowism.
The light-skinned ones get to go in the room and drink out the fountains.
You Darkans, stay away, you're not allowed.
I don't think this is appropriate.
I think it's mean spirited.
I don't understand Eric Holder saying that this is well, he's light skinned, so I guess he gets a pass.
I don't understand President Obama not standing us for us dark ones.
What is this country coming to when us people of the sun?
We dark people cannot be appreciated in the light of day by the light-skinned people.
What has happened to America?
And that is the official Obama criticizer.
I admit I had not looked at it from that perspective.
I I had not looked at it from the perspective that Obama, by um uh basically uh exonerating Harry Reed, had essentially thrown um uh dark-skinned uh Negroes overboard.
When I I really I I appreciate your perspective on that because I had not looked at it.
You are personally, as an American, you're personally offended by this.
As a dark-skinned American.
And you feel left out.
Yes.
As a dark-skinned American.
No, it's all it's all.
You know, it's uh you you feel thrown off the back of the bus, in other words.
Under the bus with Obama's grandmother.
Under the back of the bus, yes.
Oh.
Um snerdly, the official Obama criticizer, a brief time out while we all gather our thoughts here.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, we'll be right back.
So I got this uh email from a friend, and the email from a friend is from a friend.
And the friend asked her friend, uh, how are you doing?
And the response was, you can pray for my sanity.
My home computer assumed a room temperature last week.
A new one won't arrive for days.
My husband's work laptop is my link to email, but all of my client files and correspondence, research sites, photo references.
They're just out of reach.
But they are safely enveloped in the vapor of my beloved carbonite.
In the meantime, I'm ironing, sewing, reading, writing, and cleaning.
There's a woman who lost it all.
Her hard drive, her whole computer bit the dust, but she's backed up on carbonite, just as you can be.
Carbonite securely, safely, backs up everything automatically, off-site, online, whenever you're connected to the internet.
It does it in the background.
You don't even see it.
Fifty-five bucks a year for your PC or Mac at Carbonite.com.
And if you use offer code RUSH, a genuine 15-day free trial, and uh free two months.
So it won't be $55 a year.
And even if it is, even if it was, it's more than worth it because you are going to lose your data.
At some point, ladies and gentlemen, your hard drive is going to die on you, and you better hope you're backed up when that happens.
Um, let's see, not enough time to be fair with another caller here, and there's nobody up there on the call board that I want to be unfair to.
Uh, is there?
Don't think so.
I'm not going to throw that one off on the official Obama criticizer.
However, get this from a shocked Reuters.
The latest budget plan from California Governor Schwarzenegger would force 200,000 children off of low-cost medical insurance, end in-home care for 350,000 infirm and elderly citizens, and slash income assistance to hundreds of thousands of more.
And that's the best case scenario.
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