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Aug. 20, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 20, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
You just know.
You just know that drive-by's the state-controlled media have been going through their Nexus database.
They have been trying desperately to find any examples of your host.
That would be me.
Over the past two or three years, whatever, claiming Obama was a Muslim.
And they can't find it because I never said it.
But they want me to be the one who said it, and they can't find it.
Folks, I don't know about you, but this is a Friday on Ready for the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
I mean, this week and the past couple days here have been frenetic to um to say the least.
So here we are at Open Line Friday.
Telephone numbers 800 282-2882 at the email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
When we go to the phones, talk about whatever you want, especially today, because I'm I'm ready for you people to carry this baby today.
And I never very seldom say that.
I mean, I have used up, I have exhausted 150% of the half of my brain that I use.
Did I give them the phone number?
Yeah, okay.
They know it anyway.
I mean, it's the same number for 22 years.
You remember all those pictures that we used to get of Obama that the media would take that had the halo effect over him?
You know, and they and these people wonder why.
The media wonders why we think what we think.
There's a picture up on Drudge now that I swear makes Obama look like he has angel wings.
He's standing outside at the top of the stairs, getting on Air Force One.
The door to the aircraft is open, the way he's standing.
You look at it, and it looks like he's an angel.
He got angel wings.
And here are the headlines that Drudge has linked under the picture.
Shock poll, 24% think Obama Muslim.
White House, Obama, obviously Christian.
I'm gonna get into this in a minute, but what's obvious?
What is obvious about, and by the way, as much as the media and the Democrat Party hates Christians, why are they trying so hard to make him out to be one?
I mean, they don't like Christians.
Let's be honest about it.
But now they're hellbent on convincing us that Obama is one.
Uh, and then Drudge has the New York Times Edward Lutbach piece that I talked about yesterday, where Lutbach writes back in 2008 that Muslims think Obama's a Muslim because his dad was, and then AP rumors gained steam, and now all over the media, they're just tied, they're they're they're tying themselves a notch trying to figure out how you people believe this.
Why do you believe how stupid are you?
Who's responsible for this?
How did this whole business that Obama's a Muslim get started?
And they're looking desperately to find my name at the beginning of this trail, and they won't find it.
But they're did you see the picture?
Honest, honest on honest to um honest to Allah.
Uh it it looks, it looks it looks like making it look like an angel.
All right, before we get into detail, and I want to take this seriously, because Bill Burton said it's obvious he's a Christian.
I'm I'm I'm just gonna react here in mere moments.
But first we have some headlines.
Oh, let's do the soundbite first.
Back on July 2nd in Boston, a Nags had a conference, and now gang, if you're new to the program, uh the National Organization for Women, I call them the Nags, the National Association of Gals.
Uh sometimes I call them the now gang.
They had a conference.
They had a nag conference uh uh uh on uh what was uh the state of feminism.
This is the first we're hearing about this, by the way.
I think that's a testament to the state of feminism, and the only reason we're hearing about it is because C-SPAN had some time to fill.
So they played videotape of the NAG conference, uh, the state of feminism at the University of Michigan.
No.
It was in Boston.
The speaker here is the University of Michigan communications professor and author Susan Douglas.
And here's just a portion of Susan Douglas in Boston at the NAG conference on the state of feminism.
To quote from one of our dear friends in the media, social analyst, faux historian, and radio commentator Rush Limbaugh.
Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.
Fortunately, no social movement was needed to allow pudgy, unattractive men access to the top.
They just, I'm living rent-free in so many of these nags heads and these leftist heads.
They got it.
That's undeniable.
Truth of life number 24.
You know, I mean, I wrote that back in 1987, and they're carrying that around, and they make it a focal point of their NAG conference on the state of feminism.
I mean, it's just, it's gotta be.
It's got to be irritating about there, wouldn't you say?
We got pictures to prove it from the NAG conference, July 2nd in Boston, and nobody knew about until C-SPAN.
When did they run it?
Cookie found it.
Uh when did they run it?
Uh aired yesterday.
This is uh this is August the 20th.
It ran on July 6th.
This is the first anybody's heard about it.
How about this AP headline oil spill and Iraq combat over Obama takes a break?
The conquering, successful commander-in-chief can now rest.
Imam Obama, oil spill behind us, combat troops out of Iraq.
They they forgot uh that uh he uh also handled the economy, fixed the economy.
So now you can take a break.
Sixth, sixth break.
Did you know that New York Mayor Bloomberg got in trouble with the Indians?
I did I didn't know this either.
This is from Fox News, the Native American tribe is calling on the New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to either apologize or quit after he said on a radio show that get this now, Governor Patterson, who's trying to rustle up millions in cigarette taxes from the Indian tribes.
He said Governor Patterson should grab a cowboy hat and a shotgun and demand the money.
I said, you know, get yourself a cowboy hat and a shotgun.
If there's ever a great video, it's you standing in the middle of New York State throughway saying, you know, read my lips.
This is what Bloomberg said that Patterson ought to go do.
Put on a cowboy hat and a shotgun and demand the money from the see the Indians are allowed to sell tobacco products without taxes.
And uh and New York strapped for money, wants their share of the Indian tribe's cigarette sales.
So here's the mayor of New York suggesting the governor ought to go up and threaten the tribes with genocide.
Put on a cowboy hat and grab a shotgun to start shooting them up.
I mean, and so now the tribes, Native American tribe, is just all but I think and Dr. Lore is quitting.
Dr. Laura's resigning, and the mayor goes on.
Now, let's get to this Muslim business.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, Joel Achenbach.
Joel Aachenbach, a uh uh an obscure, relatively unknown member of the ruling class, partisan political operative media writes, a uh a blog at the Washington Post are Americans total numbskulls.
God help us.
Now here you have a member of the media, the Democrat Party.
These people don't like God.
They don't like Christians.
This is what's amazing to me.
They're going so far out on the limb here.
Well, I mean, they're hellbent on convincing us that Obama's a Christian and don't even like Christians.
And this guy starts his people, God help us.
I mean, these people, God is a tree.
Could so many Americans really be that dumb, ill-informed, paranoid, gullible, and goofy?
It must be tricky being Barack Obama, winding down the U.S. president's in volatile Iraq, trying to keep Afghanistan from degenerating, pondering war with Iran, even as, according to the latest bulletin, one in five Americans thinks he's a Muslim.
Yes, he's been working so hard, he's tamed the economy, he's tamed Iraq, uh, and the oil spills fixed.
He plugged a hole, and now he gets to go to Martha's Vineyard.
And Mr. Aachenbach is very disturbed at the stupidity of you people.
Uh nearly 20% of you, 25%, depending on the poll, believe that he is a Muslim.
What why why not just believe that Obama's an alien from outer space?
Why not believe he's a Manjurian candidate, programmed by, say, the Chicoms to bring America to ruin?
These are crazy times.
It's also dismaying that so many Americans are opposed to the mosque near ground zero.
In America, you can worship wherever you want, regardless of religious belief.
We protect religious minorities here.
Uh, this isn't merely the law, it's a core value.
Like this guy would know what a core value is.
These are the people that smirk at core values.
These are the people tell us shut up about the social issues.
Um by the way, a brief departure.
This business that the mosque is legal to build.
Is it against the law to let your 16-year-old who just got his license drive the car?
No.
It's perfectly legal.
Would you let your 16-year-old who just got his driver's license drive the family car across the country with a car full of friends?
No.
Does he have the right to do it?
Yeah.
Should he do it?
Ain't no way, Jose.
Good parents shouldn't shy away from these questions.
They would embrace him, make a decision, not based upon a technical reading of the law, whether something is legal.
Should you do it?
These are judgment calls.
I mean, for crying out loud, all kinds of things are legal, but they're stupid to do sometimes.
And that's that's how this falls.
This anyway, this this Aachenbach piece, I mean, this is classic.
This is ruling class elitism to a T. You people are idiots.
Open idiots, fools, bigots, racists, stupid.
Why in the world would you think Obama's a Muslim?
Why his father was?
His uh one of his mothers was an atheist.
Uh he has said the beautiful sound in the world is a Muslim call of prayer at sundown.
I mean, why?
Why would people think it aunt Zetootti?
Uh why would anybody think this?
Well, you go on and on and on and on.
He says this goes back to the pilgrims.
I seem to recall the backers of the mosques are the good guys.
Mr. Achenbach writes.
They're the good guys.
The backers of the mosques are the ones who preach tolerance.
There should be no hedging on this at all from American leaders.
If we can't allow a mosque in lower Manhattan, we might as well close shop for good and turn out the lights.
A lot of times, poles are deceiving through vague wording or perhaps by not giving people enough information to start with.
For example, the question about the mosque may not have been framed in a way that made clear that this would not be a place to advance the cause of radical Islam.
Jih what does this guy think mosques are?
The divide here.
It's like, remember the brilliant but brief verbal essay yesterday on where we are with the media.
I mean, we really there is such a divide.
We're the enemy.
Their audience is the enemy.
Well, the people who should be their audience, they actually do their work for other journalists and for the regime.
They write, like Aachenbach, I'm sure, wrote this piece, hoping that it would be widely read in the West Wing.
And that it might be highlighted on MSNBC.
What this shows is that disinformation remains powerful and infectious, that large elements of the country distrust the official story about anything.
Who writes the official story, Mr. Akenbach?
You do.
And you, that's the one thing in this piece that's right.
You are damn right.
The vast majority of the American people do not trust you, do not trust what is known as the mainstream media.
You're a bunch of hyperbolic scaremongers.
You pe why do you think we called you drive-by?
Look at what you did in the Gulf of Mexico with this oil spill.
Look at the tourism damage you did, you and your colleagues, over nothing.
Perfect example, drive-by media.
You guys run in there, you create all this havoc.
It's a crisis.
It's a disaster.
And you wait for these, and you want them to be as bad as they can be.
And then when they don't materialize, there you go down the road on to the next place that you're going to strike, while people have to clean up the mess you made in this place, in this case, the biggest mess in the Gulf of Mexico is the one the media made, not the oil.
Speaking of that, a bunch of people say, well, yeah, that damn oil still is there.
The regime is lying.
The regime's trying to get this issue off the table.
And the story actually says an invisible plume of oil, 21 invisible plume of oil can be seen.
Excuse me, invisible plume of oil can be seen.
How is that possible?
So anyway.
The reason, Mr. Akenbach, let me help you out here.
The reason that we are at a starting point of thinking everything is a lie, because of people like you.
We don't trust the fake media.
You are partisan political operatives disguised as journalists.
Thank God we have the new media, we have the internets.
We find out what is true because we won't find out what's true in the ever-shrinking pages of the Washington Post, the New York Times, or any other cable network or newspaper.
Yesterday the White House spokesman Bill Gibbs is gone.
Gibbs is somewhere.
Gibbs got sick.
Or somewhere.
So Bill Burton is the spokesman.
He got a question yesterday.
In answer to a question, he said, and so the president is obviously Christian.
He prays every day.
He communicates with his religious advisor every single day.
There's a group of pastors that he takes counsel from on a regular basis, and his faith is very important to him, but it's not something that's a topic of conversation every single day.
I'm going to analyze this.
Perhaps like Mr. Burton never thought it would be analyzed when we get back.
Hey, media, let me help you out here.
I know you're going out there and you're searching.
You're desperately searching.
You're trying to be the quote-unquote journalist to uncover that moment when I, El Rushbow, long ago said Obama's a Muslim.
The closest you're gonna come is June 11, 2008, when I quoted Moammar Qaddafi.
When he said that Obama is a Muslim.
Moamer Qaddafi, June 11, 2008.
There are elections in America now.
Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia.
His name is Obama.
All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man.
They welcomed him and they prayed for him and for his success.
And they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency.
Moamar Qaddafi.
September 9th, 2008.
Obama's Muslim faith slip, bolstered by Qaddafi.
And we highlighted it at Rush Lindbod.com.
That's the closest I've ever come.
Quoting Qaddafi.
And the reason Qaddafi says that Obama's a Muslim is because Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr. was a Muslim.
And uh in Islam, if your father is a Muslim, then you are.
What your mother was, his was uh an atheist, by the way, is irrelevant.
And that's why Qaddafi was out there saying that Obama's a Muslim.
And so, yeah, I was quoting Moamer Qaddafi.
That's as close as I ever came.
And you can say what you want.
Mr. Achenbach, one more thing.
I'll get to Bill Burton here in just a second.
What you say what you want about this mosque controversy, but nobody has lost their jobs because of it, Mr. Achenbach.
Like they have lost their jobs because of the professional left media's hysteria and intentional lies about the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
We got a we got a drilling moratorium because of your panic because of Obama's agenda.
At least nobody's losing their jobs here over this mosque business.
Ooh.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm, as you know, I'm one who uh uh I follow the news.
In fact, I'm on the cutting edge following the news.
I know what the news are gonna be before it's reported because I know Libs.
There is a new standard in our country for determining if somebody is something.
Well, there are many standards, but one of the latest standards is United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.
The real question here, determining whether or not Barack Obama is Christian, is to ask this.
Does United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald have enough evidence to indict Obama for being a Christian?
Fitzgerald's definition of evidence seems to be evolving.
And so that would be one way that we might direct the media to ask Pat Fitzgerald, if you were going to indict Obama for being a Christian, do you have enough evidence to do so?
Now let's let's go back to um Bill Burton's statement.
By the way, it's a it's a it's a gaggle.
There is no audio of this.
But he was asked a question yesterday by the media, and he said, Bill Burton, a White House spokesman, and so the president is obviously a Christian.
He prays every day.
He communicates with his religious advisor every single day.
There's a group of pastors that he takes counsel from on a regular basis.
And his faith is very important to him, but it's not something that is a topic of conversation every single day.
Okay, let's break this down.
Because this answer, while intending to be thorough and end of story, is evasive.
Very clever and very artful, but Burton's answer is evasive.
The fact that Obama prays every day does not make him a Christian.
Jews, Muslims, every other religious practitioner prays every day.
Some of them multiple times a day.
Some of them have calls to prayer, which are so beautiful that Obama thinks that they're the prettiest sounds in the world.
And then Burton said Obama communicates with his religious advisor every day.
Well, so do religious people of all faiths.
What's a religious advisor?
Don, you have a religious advisor.
You do.
Okay, yeah, you get a pastor.
We all have a pastor, a priest.
A rabbi, we've all got religious advisors.
So Obama communicates with his religious advisor every day.
So what?
Big deal.
He's making his Christianity sound like it's a policy thing.
And he has to have a meeting every day with his Christian policy advisors.
And if it is that, if he is having policy meetings with his Christian advisors every day?
He needs to replace them because they're giving him bad advice.
Because this is the this is the weakest answer to try to dispel a ridiculous problem.
You know, what's fascinating about this is not what Burton says.
It's not all these polls.
It's the fact that we're asking the question about the president of the United States.
There are actually poll who's doing the poll.
Why it ain't us.
The poll is being done by the partisan political operatives known as journalists.
Is Obama a Muslim?
Do you think he's a Christian?
We're asking this about the president of the United States.
And then Burton says there's a group of pastors he takes counsel from on a regular basis.
Well, so do people of all religions.
Take counsel from their pastors.
Most people get by with one, maybe two, but Obama here has a lot of them.
A group of pastors.
And then Burton said his faith is very important to him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Bin Laden's faith is not important to him.
Billy Graham's faith wasn't particularly important to him.
Pope Benedict.
We say it's not very important to him.
What is this?
Obama's faith is very important.
We're supposed to be dazzled by this.
We are supposed to be mesmerized.
We are supposed to be persuaded, convinced.
Wow, who knew?
Obama's faith is very important to him.
Faith is important to millions of Muslims, Jews, Hindus, terrorists, Buddhists, atheists.
Atheism's a faith.
Very important to those people.
Obama's mother was a atheist.
But none of this, none of it relates to the question of Obama's Christianity.
Zip zero nada.
This didn't cut it.
Then Burton calls Obama's Christianity obvious.
Well, um, isn't that the point, ladies and gentlemen?
It isn't obvious if we're polling it.
Let me correct myself.
It isn't obvious if Obama's own media is polling it.
Bill Clinton's Christianity was obvious.
Clinton was in every black church he could find.
Clinton was out there claiming to be the first black president spiritual sense.
George W. Bush's Christianity was obvious.
He talked about it.
He talked about it in ways that defined him as a person.
Clinton did too.
Clinton was also very obvious about it because every time there was a sex scandal, we had him standing in front of the Reverend Jackson and others religious advisors.
And they were having prayer meetings and they were holding hands and so on.
It was obvious that Clinton was a Christian.
It was obvious that George W. Bush was a Christian.
It was obvious that FDR was a Christian.
So obvious that nobody ever asked.
No one even thought to ask.
Is Bush a Christian?
In fact, when they talked about Bush being a Christian, it was to criticize him.
We had stories and articles.
Guiding policy.
When Bush talked about the desire of every human being to be free, that that's part of our creation.
Remember how they cringed.
The same media that now apparently so love and respect Christianity that they are damn well convinced that Obama is one, and they are damn well persuaded that we are gonna believe it.
But Bush's Christianity, hey, they don't like it.
And they don't like right wing Christianity.
They don't like Pat Robertson, and they don't like Billy Graham, and they don't like Jerry Falwell.
They don't like Billy Sol Hargis.
Or Billy James, sorry, whatever it was.
They don't like NASCAR Christianity.
They don't like Christianity talks about pro-life.
They hate it.
The ruling class doesn't want to get anywhere near it.
Now all of a sudden.
It is crucial that we understand Obama's a Christian because it's important to him.
But we didn't have to ask it about FDR.
We didn't have to ask it about Clinton.
We didn't have to ask it about George W. Bush.
Nobody asked Burton, okay, he's got all these religious advisors.
Does he listen to them?
Does he listen to them?
Because he said he never listened to Reverend Wright.
He can't tell you what Reverend Wright ever said, even when he was a member of that church for twenty years.
Did you know that Reverend Wright used to be a Muslim?
Did you know that?
You might have known that and forgotten it, but Reverend Wright used to be a Muslim, and now he's a black theology or black, yeah.
Black liberation theologist, which is uh some sort of Christianity, uh, but he used to be a Muslim.
So nothing's obvious about Obama's Christianity, Mr. Burton, and the telltale sign is that you even have to say it.
We're polling it.
You see, Obama's Christianity is the obvious, the opposite of obvious.
What do you mean by that, Limba?
What do you mean?
How can you sit there and say Obama's Christianity is the opposite of obvious?
Well, glad you asked.
Let me explain it.
He has a Muslim name.
Barack.
Hussein.
Obama.
He had a Muslim father and an extended Muslim family in Kenya.
He was partly raised and educated in Indonesia by a Muslim stepfather.
He has Muslim half-sisters and brothers, one of whom continues to reside in a three by five foot hut in Kenya.
His mother was a self-proclaimed and unaffiliated atheist.
Obama professed no religion and belonged to no church until he joined Reverend Wright's Trinity Church in Chicago.
He did this in his late twenties.
And his mentor there, the estimable Reverend Jeremiah Wright, was a Muslim who converted to black liberation theology, which is a highly exotic,
let's be uh politic here, uh highly exotic form of Christianity in the American, even black American context.
It's pretty exotic.
Obama's great literary intellectual role model was Malcolm X. One of Obama's religious advisors is a Chicago Muslim, Ebu Patel.
Imam Faisal Abdul Roof, or Rauf, however he pronounces the last name.
The controversial Muslim leader behind the plan to build the Islamic Center and Mosque a couple blocks from Ground Zero wrote the afterword to Ebu Patel's 2006 book, Building the Interfaith Youth Movement Beyond Dialogue to Action.
So the Ground Zero Mosque Imam wrote the afterword to Obama's religious advisors book.
The religious advisor of the Muslim.
So, Mr. Burton, Obama's Christianity is the opposite of obvious.
You have to dig deep here to find it.
Now, having said all that, none of what I have said means that Obama's a Muslim.
And none of it means that Obama's not a sincere Christian.
If he's going to say that he is, fine.
We will accept that he's a Christian.
I still find it amazing we're polling it.
And I have to laugh.
Have you seen the latest examples of the media trying to convince us that he's not a Muslim?
Pictures of the beer summit.
Pictures of Obama with a brusque.
See, he can't be a Muslim.
He's drinking beer.
You know the Muslims don't approve alcohol.
They're going to great length.
But he's not obviously a Christian.
We have to take that on faith, if I may use the word.
We have to accept his Christianity on faith.
The belief that he's telling us the truth because his Christianity is not obvious by any intellectually coherent definition of the word.
Quick time out.
I'm a little long here.
Well, no, the reason why some people are confused is Obama's spent 20 years listening to a racist bigoted preacher who has a special place in his heart for the nation of Islam who used to be a Muslim.
It's not obvious, Mr. Burton, that your guy is a Christian.
Back in just a second.
Now here's the point.
On a lot of things, a lot of personal things like religion.
I have no idea what Barack Obama believes.
I mean, this NASA mission to make Muslims feel good about themselves.
And they had to walk that back.
I mean, that that was a head scratcher, wasn't it?
New purpose of NASA is to outreach for Muslims to make them feel good about math and science.
See, I think Obama is aloof.
He's disconnected, he is condescending, he's stubborn, he is devoted to outmoded failed economic ideas.
He is destroying this country, whether by accident or by design.
He's an elitist who thinks he's smarter than everybody in the room.
I think there's a personality quirk to understand Obama.
And I've I've referenced this countless times.
This is the guy who, if he ever got a C, the professor would turn it into an A. This is a guy who has been told how smart he is all of his life.
And he has believed it.
He's so much smarter than the rest of them, and then the stupid idiots in the media say, yeah, we're just not quick enough to keep up with Obama.
He's gonna have to slow down for the rest of us.
Give me a break.
He's not smarter than anybody else.
Depending on how you define the term smart, he could be stupid.
How in the world can anything that Obama's doing regarding economic policy, growth, American exceptional, how can any of it be called smart, much less brilliant.
He's aloof, he's disconnected, he's elitist, he's condescending, he's arrogant.
He doesn't hold news conferences, he apologizes for his country.
He doesn't understand this controversy about the mosque at ground zero, or worse, he does understand it, and just giving us a thumb in the eye.
hell.
He's anti-free markets.
He's anti-individual.
He doesn't think individuals are capable of taking care of themselves.
The government has to grow and do it for everybody.
I know he's a statist.
so I know he's inexperienced, I know he has horrible judgment.
And I don't care about his religious beliefs, frankly, unless he's lying about them.
It doesn't matter to me.
Because like the Tea Party, we got a hell of a lot more problems with Barack Obama than whatever his religion is.
I mean, he's confusing.
We're gonna play that Tom Brokaw Charlie Rose Bite again today.
Who they admitted they don't know much about him.
Nobody knows anything about him.
We're having to ask people in polls whether or not he's a Muslim for crying out loud.
Ladies and gentlemen, electing Barack Obama president is the equivalent of marrying somebody without knowing a damn thing about him.
Until the next day.
And that usually happens when you're drunk and in a place like Las Vegas.
And when that usually happens, you're going for a quickie divorce.
But we can't do that.
So we're kind of stuck with this.
The media.
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