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Sept. 29, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 29, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, you know, Drudge has his uh lead headline here on the Dutch report page, uh, high alert, new terror threat.
And you go to the story, it's an ABC story, uh credible but not specific threat of new terrorist attack.
Officials in Europe, U.S. on high alert for commando style raids after capture of suspected German terrorists.
Uh is this something really to be concerned about?
I thought the president said we could absorb that kind of thing.
Uh we can absorb he did say this.
He said to Bob Woodward, he said we could we can absorb a terrorist hit.
In fact, we had a soundbite yesterday.
I didn't get to it, but Woodward was on Good Morning America.
Sixty minutes blew him off this time.
That's the first time Woodward Edmund on 60 minutes, he needs to write more Bush books is gonna get on 60 minutes.
So he had to go with a farm team, Diane Sawyer out there, and she asked him about this.
What did you do when the president said we can absorb a terrorist attack?
And Woodward said, I kind of sat up straight.
I I didn't quite know what uh what what that meant.
Well, we all know what it means.
It means we can absorb another terrorist, it's not that big a deal.
We have to raise taxes on the rich.
That's the priority.
Great to have you here, folks.
Fastest week in media already at Wednesday, and uh, I'm Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network of the Limbaugh Institute.
Great to be with you.
I am reading a book.
I got a the author sent me a uh paperback version of the book.
Michael Walsh is his name.
Oh, now I'm having a mental block on the uh it just came out this year.
Um, it is a great, great, great political thriller.
And I I'm I'll I have to get the name.
This is embarrassing.
Uh it's it's just total escapism.
But he's got a great, great, great term for people at the New York Times.
He calls them the bedwetters at the New York Times, meaning all these people hand ringing, all these just constantly afraid of the wrong things, by the way.
The bedwetters at the New York Times I'm gonna steal that.
Uh early early warning, early warning.
It's a second in a series.
The uh the the head honcho character is a guy named Devlin.
Uh, and this is the second of the two.
And I I don't know who the guy is.
He sent me an autograph copy of the uh of a paperback version of the of the second Devlin book, a little note in there says uh uh here's a little book, spend some time uh when you're when you're flying around from airplane reading.
And I noticed that it was the second, so I went uh I have them both on my iPad.
You know, uh iBooks has one of them, and I had to go to Barnes and Noble to get the other one.
Uh I read books on my iPad now.
By the way, folks, I'm running well, never mind.
Steve Jobs will get mad at me.
I've already got Hank Haney mad at me, so I'm not gonna tell you that.
At any rate, it's uh it's it's a it's it's a great term.
Bedwetters at the New York Times.
We've got to go straight to the audio sound bites.
We just have to do this.
Last night CNN The Situation Room.
Wolf Blitzer is talking with Murray Madeline and Donna Brazil about Obama and me.
And Blitzer set up the conversation by playing two clips of me from this show.
And the the subtext here is that Obama is unhappy with my calling him Imam Obama.
Now, I've not heard Obama say he's upset with that.
Have you?
We've not heard Obama react to this at all, but apparently Wolf Blizzard knows that he's upset.
So here's how here's how this all went down.
Rush Limbaugh, among others, has been, I guess, you know, saying things about the president that uh the what the president clearly doesn't like.
I want to play two clips for you, Donna, what uh Rush Limbaugh said on August 19th on his hugely popular radio program and what he said today.
If it was okay and even laudatory to call Bill Clinton America's first black president, why can't we call Imam Obama America's first Muslim president?
George Soros is not pledging all this philanthropy.
He's not trying to score points, he's trying to screw, and he's succeeding at it because he's bought the Democrat Party in Barack Hussein Imam Obama.
Well, no, this is August 19th, and I guess did I say this Soros yesterday?
Maybe It may be.
At any rate, uh, what I said here is indisputable.
If it was okay and a laudatory to call Bill Clinton America's first black president, then why can't we call Imam Obama America's first Muslim president?
I mean, Clinton wasn't black.
It wasn't black then, he's not black now.
Yet he was the first black president, and and Obama says he's not a Muslim, he's a Christian.
So I was just being consistent.
If you Democrats want to say that Bill Clinton was the first black Donald Brazil went along with that.
And who was it that came up with?
Tony Morrison, right?
Uh a black authorette.
Because Clinton understood uh, you know, growing up in the back of an El Camino with AstroTurf in the flatbed back there in Arkansas, he understands what it's like to be black in America.
So she's the first black president.
Well, he never was black, isn't black now.
Obama says he's not Muslim, but so couldn't we say he's uh first Muslim president?
He's for the I'm just extending the Democratic logic here.
And if they don't like Imam Obama, I can understand that.
So we'll just um we'll just we'll call him Ayatollah Obama.
I don't know that Imam Obama might be a little provocative.
Uh Ayatollah Obama.
Why not not Michael Walsh, I know who Michael Walsh is.
Um he is he's he's part of Breitbart's team at Bigjournalism.com.
Uh and Big Media.com, which is devoted to media commentary and create you'll love Walsh's books because he writes them from the standpoint of America, you know, having caved into uh the chicken of things, where a bunch of bunch of wusses that are governed by politically correct uh people at all levels of government.
You love the books.
Um what what is the name of the book I'm reading thirdly?
What did you find the second book?
The title of it is He's already thrown it away and I didn't make Early Early Warning, yeah.
And but the first Yeah, hostile intent, hostile intent's the first one.
And there's a George Soros like character in this book, Immanuel Scorzini.
He lives on a Boeing 707.
He lives on a Boeing 707.
I mean, these are you know, these are Vince Flynn caliber.
They're they're uh they're right up there.
So, all right, there you have it.
Um Obama ostensibly, Wolf Blitzer knows, unhappy with my referring to him as uh Imam Obama.
So then Blitzer said uh to uh Donna Brazil, when you when you hear Rush Limbaugh calling the president not just Barack Hussein Obama, but Barack Hussein Imam Obama, what what do you think, Donna?
Well, first of all, I'm not going to react to Rush Limbaugh.
I think the reason why Rush Limbaugh says those things is because he knows that the mainstream media and others will, you know, salivate and and want to discuss it.
But you know what?
In this polluted volatile political season, unfortunately, those kind of comments by Mr. Limbaugh and others will always attract media attention, and it's a sad statement about where we are today.
Oh, yeah, let's get the violins out.
It's a sad statement about where we are today.
Uh what what she's what she's admitting here is that the media tweak of the day works.
That's what she's talking about.
He's well, you know, Limbaugh knows the mainstream media, they're gonna salivate, they're gonna discuss what he says.
Uh it's polluted, volatile political season.
Those kind of comments are always going to attract media attention.
I mean, the media tweak of the day works.
So Mary Madeline had her two cents.
Blitzer said, uh, are you as appalled at Rush Limbaugh, Mary, as uh Donna Brazil is?
From the very first week of the Obama administration, the Democrats have been trying to demonize Rush Limbaugh, and that they've succeeded only in driving people to his show where they find out that he's not hateful, he's not angry, he's a common sense conservative, and he's a wickedly brilliant satirist.
And when they take this humor-impaired grassy noller approach to uh Rush Limbaugh, they make themselves look bad.
He was calling it making those Imam remarks in satire in response to Obama's support for what was then the ground zero mosque.
And within three days of that, the mainstream press was blaming Rush Limbaugh for the doubling of Americans who are confused about The president's religion.
That's not Rush Limbaugh's issue.
You cannot blame one radio show for the confusion of a third of America.
She's talking about the fact that 20% of American people think he's a Muslim.
And we didn't do that poll.
The Pew people did that poll.
And then they did Democrats trying to blame me.
Well, 20% of the American people think he's a Muslim because I, El Rush will call him Imam Obama, but the poll was taken days before I introduced the Imam Obama term to the American mainstream political discourse.
So she's exactly right.
Madeline has nailed it here.
Donna Brazil then said this.
Mary, look, the simple truth is in a Pew study recently, they blame the media.
They blame the media for 60% of the American people not knowing President Obama's faith.
But look, I want to say something.
I try not to demonize people because I want to know what people are saying, not what they're reacting to, but what they're saying.
And the reason why I have tried not to react to everything that comes out of Rush Limbaugh's mouth, uh Sarah Palin's tweet, is because I believe it's irrelevant.
No, you don't.
You don't believe it's irrelevant at all.
It's uh it's penetrating.
And not going to comment on it.
She just spent the whole show commenting after she said she wasn't going to comment.
I know two weeks ago, Donna Brazil was coming after me.
Well, she's always coming after me about something.
Uh but I I I don't know.
I don't know why, or how how is calling somebody an Imam demonizing them?
No, no, no.
Seriously.
I mean, I asked the what's wrong with being a Muslim.
Okay, 20% of the American people think he's a Muslim, so what's wrong with that?
A lot of Muslims in the world.
There's something inherently bad about being thought to be a Muslim.
What's the big deal about it?
It's like what's wrong with somebody being gay?
I mean, well, I don't understand.
What's wrong with that?
What you know, what what's wrong with being a liberal?
I mean, a lot of liberals out there, what's wrong with it?
Imam is simply Arab for leader.
It's all it is.
Not even preacher, not even reverend, it's just a leader.
So how is somebody calling somebody an Imam demonizing them?
Now, do 20% of the American people think Obama's a magic Negro?
Why don't Pew go out and poll that?
And if they if if they don't think Obama's a magic Negro, why not?
We thought Obama told people not to listen to me.
That's not how things get done in Washington.
There's Donna Brazil said, Yeah, Limbaugh's irrelevant.
I don't even talk about him.
After spending 10 minutes talking about me.
Well, obviously, folks, this has gotten under Obama's skin because in Albuquerque, New Mexico yesterday, Obama explained how he became a Christian.
And he explained what Christianity means to him.
And like a lot of people who are religious, he has some misunderstandings about what's in the Bible and where it's in the Bible.
I will explain all of this when we come back.
Right after this brief timeout, the Il Rushbaugh show on the EIB network.
Aren't you hooked?
You know you are.
So I got a note from somebody who said that I uh forgot to mention Hank Haney in the uh opening monologue.
I did not forget uh to mention Hank Haney.
Uh Hank Haney is uh upset with me, as is uh President Obama.
By the way, snurdly Hank Haney is gonna be here uh one day in the middle of October, coming in here to uh to see how I do what I do uh and uh also instruct me on how to do this better.
Uh and he anyway, not just kidding.
But he wants to talk to you.
He wants to do a pre-show interview with you.
Uh, and and if you're willing to do it, I have authorized permission uh for for that yes for that to happen.
Uh I'll let you know when this is uh some sometime in the middle of October.
We're still working on uh on getting the uh on getting the dates.
Uh Ayatollah, you know, Imam means leader uh in in Arab, uh Arabic.
Uh Ayatollah, by the way, means miraculous sign of God in uh in Arabic.
Maybe uh, ladies and gentlemen, maybe uh President Obama would prefer uh that I use uh more Christian terms or Christian sounding terms to describe him.
So, how about the Immaculate Deception to describe Obama and his victory and his uh and his campaign, or the teleprompha?
There's any number of ways that we could go with this.
But clearly, President Obama not happy with all this other 20% of the American people think he might be a Muslim, so he's in Albuquerque, a backyard town hall event.
Was this the the first or the second backyard town hall event?
Did he do another one somewhere?
Or was this uh it seems like there was two of them.
Maybe this is the one, and they're talking about it twice.
Anyway, uh one of the audience members said uh to Obama, why are you a Christian?
I'm a Christian uh by choice.
Um, my family didn't, frankly, the they weren't uh folks who went to church every every week.
Um I mean, my mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew, but she didn't uh raise me in the church.
Uh so I came to to uh my Christian faith later in life, uh and it was because uh the the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead, being my brothers and sisters keeper, treating others as they would treat me.
Now, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh you have to forgive me here, but and I'm I'm not I'm not just if President Obama says he's a Christian, that's good enough for me.
I and a lot of people who do not know details of their own religious belief.
But the golden rule is not a precept of Christianity.
I I hate I hate to point this out, uh, but the golden rule is not emanate, originate from Christianity.
Uh and this brother's keeper business, that's not Jesus.
And I hate to say this, but Jesus Christ did not talk about brothers keeper.
That is from the story of Cain and Abel.
And even that story is misunderstood.
The story of Cain and Abel, my brother's keeper, does not mean I'm gonna take care of my brother or take care of my sister.
The story of Cain and Abel uh Cain killed Abel.
And then he said he had no idea.
He denied it.
He denied killing Abel and then said to God, Am I brother's keeper?
Meaning, what is he my responsibility?
He's not my responsibility.
I didn't kill my brother.
Now a lot of people misunderstand all of this, but the golden rule doesn't come from Christianity, and Cain and Abel is not, I'm gonna take care of my brother, and I'm gonna take care of my sister.
And Jesus Christ has nothing to do with either one of them.
Besides that, and I don't know, I reluctantly point this out, ladies and gentlemen, but Obama's brother is still living in a hut, a six by nine-foot, unair conditioned, no running water, no electricity hut in Kenya, outside Nairobi, somewhere over there, twenty dollars.
A guy lives on a dollar a year, twenty bucks would be the equivalent of winning the lottery.
And Obama has not reached out to keep his brothers, his half-brother.
But I mean, he hasn't even sent a sign over there.
Hut sweet hut, home sweet hut.
Well, and Satutti?
Yeah.
Anza Tuti is in public housing in Boston.
Now there is an Obama relative in Kenya who is apparently uh Queen Bee over there, they just did run electricity and water lines to her hut.
But Mr. Limbo, why are you doing this?
What do you mean why am I doing I prefaced all this by saying that I don't die if he says he's a Christian, that's I'm not gonna argue.
This is there are a lot of people who think they know a lot about their religion that don't.
The um early my my father did the early incarnations of the golden rule are found in the code of Hammurabi, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
Remember my dad telling my brother and I, me, all about justice in the legal system.
Explain, do you believe an eye if an eye of tooth for a tooth?
The code of hammurabi, hammurabi code.
Uh and nothing to do with the Bible or Christianity, nor does uh my brother's keeper business.
Anything to do with Christianity.
There's more sound bites on this.
We'll get to them after this.
The code of Hammurabi is from ancient Babylon.
Many people's first experience of Golden Rule is actually uh like my brother David told me that he first heard of the golden rule when he opened up a fortune cookie at the Purple Crackle Club in East Cape Girard, Illinois, and a fortune cookie had the uh uh golden rule in there as a fortune.
How many of you have seen the golden rules of fortune a fortune cookie?
Now the uh the code of Hammurabi is from ancient Babylon, which is modern Iraq.
Ancient Babylon was modern Iraq.
You can even find the story Cain and Abel in the Quran.
I'm sorry, the holy Quran, as Mrs. Clinton points out.
And so is the Golden Rule.
Uh I know a lot of I've got a lot of emails that the Golden Rule is in the Old Testament, that it's in the New Testament, that it's uh, but it's the code of Hammurabi.
An eye for an eye, tooth or due unto others.
The the the point is the I am my brother's keeper.
There is an effort.
The reason why this is important is an effort by the left to say that Jesus was a socialist.
And they are using this to turn many evangelical people into global warming people.
We are the stewards of the planet and so forth.
There's a there's an ongoing effort here to corrupt Christianity, and this and the Cain and Abel story, classic illustration of how it happens.
Uh Cain and Abel has nothing to do about being my brother's keeper.
What was what was happening was Cain was in trouble for killing his brother.
That's the story of Cain and Abel.
Now I'm I'm only pointing this out because I'm I'm just I'm reacting to um what the president said.
He's explaining to people why he's a Christian.
That his grandmother didn't take him to church, and it was a choice he came to later in life.
Here's more.
Um and this is where this is where Obama now says that that public service is part uh of an effort to express his Christian faith, that that that Christianity is socialism, that Jesus Christ was uh was a socialist.
Uh Jesus Christ was apolitical.
He got involved in no political ideology whatsoever.
Anyway, here's here's the next soundbite of uh of a President Obama.
I think also understanding that Jesus Christ dying for my sins uh spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, uh, and that uh you know we achieve salvation through uh the grace of of God.
But what we can do, uh as flawed as we are, is still see God and other people and do our best uh to help them find their you know their own grace.
And and so that's uh that's what I strive to do.
That's what I pray to do every day.
Uh I think my public service uh is part of that effort uh uh express my Christian faith.
Right.
Um how how how is his Christian faith guiding the way he's dealing with Republicans?
I mean, he's urging everybody not to listen to Republicans, don't don't uh uh don't don't make uh arrangements uh with uh with Republicans.
Uh now his explanation here, I'm just being factual.
His explanations you're hearing here do not match what he said in dreams from my father about why he's Christian.
They don't match.
So we're just putting it out there.
Ladies and gentlemen, I've I've heard a lot of people explain why they are Christians.
A lot of people who don't know why they are try to explain why they're Christians.
A lot of people who do know why they are explain why they are Christians.
Uh and I know this this explanation Obama just gave had to be very, very tough because he doesn't think he's flawed.
But he had to admit that he's flawed, as we are.
Well, he didn't say we all are.
He said we are, meaning us.
Uh very tough for Obama to admit that he's flawed, but he did so in this case.
Uh now, no discussion of religion can be complete for Obama without a shout-out to the atheists.
I'm also somebody who deeply believes that the part of the bedrock strength of this country is that it embraces people of many faiths and of no faith, that this is a country that is still predominantly Christian, but we have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and that their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own.
And that's part of what makes this country what it is.
Okay, so I'm a Christian, but but but don't hold it against me.
Because I understand a lot of people aren't, and they have their own pathway to grace.
They clear the forest in their own way.
I'm perfectly fine with whatever anybody else wants to be.
Kind of like Mario Cuomo, huge Catholic, believes every shred of Catholicism that there is.
And then they asked, well, uh uh Governor Cuomo, if if you are uh devout Catholic, then how can you be pro-choice?
Well, I said in big speech to Notre Dame, uh Governor Kumo said, I I can't impose my religious views on other people.
But of course, he had no trouble imposing his political views on everybody.
And a political view happened to be pro-choice.
He was fully willing to impose that, or his view on taxes or whatever, he's perfectly willing to impose that, but his religion, no, I'm not going to impose my religion.
And this was thought to be brilliantly scholarly, as a way of slithering out of the apparent contradiction.
Now, here's Obama, chapter 14, page 131, Dreams of My Father, when I asked for other pastors to talk to to help with his community organizing, several gave me the name of Reverend Wright.
Uh the same minister, Reverend Phillips had mentioned a day at his church.
Younger ministers seem to regard Reverend Wright as a mentor of sorts, his church a model for what they themselves hope to accomplish.
Toward the end of October, I finally got a chance to pay Reverend Wright a visit, see the church of myself, small sign spiked into the grass, free South Africa in simple block letters.
Reverend Wright had grown up.
Now he didn't say any of this to people Albuquerque.
No, his grandmother, or his mother, or who never took him.
He never said a word about Reverend Wright mentoring him.
And you know what the thing that animated Obama has said this.
The thing that animated him the most that of all the things that Reverend Wright ever said, Reverend Wright, when he when he came out with this bit uh that cruise ships throw away more food in a day than shows up in Haiti in a year.
A white man's greed rules a world in need.
That's Obama said that resonated with me.
As though, of course, the problem, the reason why there's no food in Haiti is because the cruise ships are throwing it away.
Had nothing to do with the fact that a bunch of communist dictators and authoritarians had run that country and had deprived people of food and had deprived them of an economic political system that would have produced wealth.
And given the opportunity for no, no, it was the cruise ship's fault.
It was capitalism's fault.
That's what that's what Obama has said was really instrumental in guiding him to Reverend Wright.
That whole notion, white man's greed runs a world in need.
The cruise ships throw away more food in Haiti season a year.
We didn't hear any of the reverence for the Reverend Wright from Obama.
And in fact, again in Albuquerque, during a QA, audience members said, as far as the mosque in New York, I'm a Christian, but but we base our faith on free will.
And that's what we're founded on was freedom.
And I just think thank you for taking a stand.
I appreciate that.
You're exactly right.
We were founded on freedom of religion.
That's that's how this country got started.
That's why people came here.
Because there were a bunch of other folks who said you can't worship the way you want.
And we have to constantly, I think, reaffirm that tradition.
Even when it sometimes makes us uncomfortable.
So here you have the politically correct way of proving your goodness is to sacrifice everything you believe and be in deference to somebody else.
In other words, let them whipsaw you, let them slap you upside the head, let them turn you over to me and spank you just to show you're fair.
Reverend Wright had grown up in Philadelphia.
This from the book.
The son of a Baptist minister.
He had resisted his father's vocation at first joining the Marines out of college, dabbling with liquor, Islam, and black nationalism in the 60s.
He learned Hebrew and Greek, read the literature of Tillich and Niever and the Black Liberation theologies and theologians, and afterward in the parking lot, I sat in my car, I thumbed through a silver brochure I'd picked up in the receptionary at Wright's church.
It contained a set of guiding principles, a black value system that a congregation had adopted in 1979, a sensible heartfelt list.
For Reverend Wright and the Trinity Parishioners, the principles in Trinity's brochure were articles of faith no less than belief in the resurrection.
So that's fine.
That's what he wrote in the book about Christianity and how he arrived at it.
In Albuquerque, not a word of that.
Inspired her to want to find out what Christianity was all about.
So as for Reverend Wright, are these the precepts that Obama is referring to when talking about those who have guided him spiritually?
Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.
Hillary ain't never been called the nigger.
Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky.
He was riding dirty in white America, US of KKKA, black men turning on black men.
I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it.
Not God bless America, God America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.
God America!
And now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards!
America's nations coming home to now we got a big terror threat out there, and it's not that big a deal because we can absorb it.
We can absorb it.
Now here is this is Obama, the audio book version of the audacity of hope.
Senator Obama talking about a sermon by Reverend Wright.
Painting depicts a harpist.
Reverend Wright explained.
A woman who at first glance appears to be sitting atop a great mountain until you take a closer look and see that the woman is bruised and blooded, dressed in tattered rags, the harp reduced to a single phrase string.
Your eyes then drawn down to the scene below, down to the valley below, where everywhere are the ravages of famine, the drumbeat of war, a world groaning under strife and deprivation.
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere.
That's the world on which hope sits.
And so it went.
A meditation on a fallen world.
That, my friends, that is what Obama has said, moved him the most in terms of guiding him to Christianity.
Those words of Reverend Wright.
So what?
What?
I know he said he wasn't listening.
I know.
He's in the 20 years he didn't hear any of this stuff.
But we didn't believe that.
And now he quotes it, of course, in the book, The Audacity of Hope.
So we know we heard it.
We know we heard it.
Now I know a lot of you people are probably uncomfortable.
Rush challenging somebody's religion.
No, no, no, I'm not the man's president of the United States.
I'm just, he says a bunch of things here.
He explains why he's Christian, and I'm simply what we do here on a daily basis, factually analyze, and uh and comment.
I didn't bring it up.
Fuck.
I'm minding my own business here.
Hey, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh serving humanity while having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have all at the same time.
Last night on Hardball with Chris Matthews, the guest is Roger Simon Politico.
They had a discussion about why Obama's out there talking about his Christianity.
And uh Matthew says he talks about his mother uh being raised in an atheist family, basically for all practical purposes, trying to find his religious faith, and he did.
I I would just hate to have this be called a headline because we've known this about him for a long time.
Now he's forced to come out with it.
I think some adversarial media will now say he's saying things that are new to us.
There's nothing new here.
Tell what Matthews is saying.
Why is he talking about this?
His party's about to get shellacked.
His party's about to get creamed in November.
Because of his policies.
And what's he doing out there talking about this Christianity stuff?
And Matthews is covering up.
Well, we know about this.
There's nothing new.
We know he's a Christian.
We know his mother was an atheist.
We know his mother was a hippie.
Why is he bringing all this up?
Ask Roger Simon.
Roger Simon said this in response.
Did he really have to throw his family under the bus to make this point?
I mean, you know, his family didn't go to church, but he went to church.
To me, this is the worst thing he's done since comparing his grandmother to Reverend Wright to make a point about everybody racial.
Now, I mean, this disturbs me.
How far do we go in politics to get a few extra votes?
I mean, he's a Christian, fine, so he's a Christian.
Yeah, and then they're fraying away out there on the edges.
So Roger Simon's throwing his family under the bus here.
Family didn't go to church, but he did the worst thing he's done.
And Matthews, oh, come on, come on.
Matthews and Feynman, later on in the program, have this discussion about Obama and Simon and Christianity.
I don't agree with that.
I don't know.
I'll give you a I don't agree with that at all.
Not at all.
I don't agree with that.
I think it was true because I know his background was his mother was kind of a hippie.
Our mother wasn't a she was a free thinker.
She wasn't a churchgoer.
That's all we say.
He wasn't saying his mother wasn't spiritual.
He was building around.
Man, oh man, everybody discombobulated out there.
Howard Feynman says, oh no, I don't agree with that.
I don't agree with Matthew.
I don't agree with that.
I don't know.
Roger, you're full of crap.
Why do you bring this up, Roger?
Can you imagine what happened after this show was over?
Feynman and Matthews ganging up with Roger said, What the hell?
Don't you know you're just feeding the limbs of the world out there, throwing his mother under the bus?
Worst thing he's ever done since comparing his grandmother to Reverend Wright to make a point, which he did.
You remember that, Dawn?
You remember what he did?
That was in the famous race speech in Pennsylvania was outside Philadelphia.
And he said that is his grandmother or mother, whatever, was a typical white person.
Grandma was a typical white person.
Saw black guy and said, oh, and crossed the street and ran the other way.
Typical white person.
Whoa my God, Obama's throwing his grandmother, who raised him under the bus here in order to save Reverend Wright.
Roger Simon says, Yeah, now he's compounded.
He's thrown his mother under the bus.
Now she's an atheist.
Why is he doing this?
And it is a good question.
His party's on the verge of getting shellacked, at least according to the polls.
And what's Obama out there doing here?
What's he doing?
Well, He's a narcissist.
Something obviously bothers him about this.
And party doesn't matter to him.
Remember, I think he's actually looking forward to Republicans running the House so that when 2012 comes along, he can run against them rather than uh his own party.
Be right back.
You know, PJ O'Rourke is uh is still around.
P.J. O'Rourke's still around.
And PJ O'Rourke can still nail it now and then.
He can still be funny.
And he did last night.
It was not a good night for Matthews last night on Hardwall.
It really wasn't.
Uh, because after all this Obama religion stuff got thrown back in Matthew's face, he started in on Christine O'Donnell and uh and what he thinks are sophist statements on evolution.
And P.J. O'Rourke just sent Matthews to the showers on this one.
We'll play you the audio when we get back.
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