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July 12, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 12, 2012, Thursday, Hour #2
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I just got some um some bites of Joe Biden and ALCP.
I'm looking at him.
I'm not all that jazzed.
But Biden is Biden.
There may be some entertainment value.
He went in there and he was talking about Reverend Wright, how much he loved Reverend Remich and learned from Reverend Wright.
And place erupts in cheer.
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You know, one of the one of the biggest lies that the news media and the rest of the Democrat Party has foisted on us the past 50 years plus is the lie that the Democrat Party is the savior of blacks and all minorities.
You realize Democrats were the ones who started the KKK.
You don't find Republican senators that were members of the KKK.
But Robert Sheetsbird, Democrat West Virginia, was a grand wizard or Kleagel or whatever.
He was a recruiter for the KKK.
The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan.
Democrats were the ones who turned fire hoses and police dogs on civil rights marchers in Alabama.
Bull Connor was a Democrat.
Not just Alabama, all across the South.
Democrats were the people standing in the schoolhouse doors, refusing to admit black students that wanted an equal education with white students.
Was Democrats who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
It was Democrats that LBJ had problems with trying to get the Civil Rights Act passed.
Now the Democrats have the gall to accuse Republicans of working against blacks and other minorities.
As for Biden and Reverend Wright, we don't really care what Biden learned from Reverend Wright.
We want to know what Obama learned from Reverend Wright.
The KKK was a wing of the Democrat Party.
It was the militant wing of the Democrat Party.
The KKK was created to stop blacks and whites from voting for Republicans.
The earliest targets the KKK were Republicans.
I don't know how many of you people are probably shocked to hear this.
This is one of the great reversals of reality that has taken place in this nation's history.
A greater percentage of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act in the Senate in 1964 than Democrats.
And yet look at what everybody thinks.
John Lewis, who, as he describes it, got beat upside the head to Selma March, got beat upside to head by Democrats.
John Lewis marched with Dr. King, got beat up by Democrats, had the fire hoses turned on him by Democrats, had the dogs turned loose on him by Democrats.
Was chased down by the Ku Klux Klan.
It was Democrats that killed him at Till.
Well, it wasn't Republicans.
You'd never know it.
And now, if you are just joining us, I have to share with you the quote of the day, and it comes from Charlotte Stoker Manning, chairwoman of women in the NAACP.
She told the website BuzzFeed after Romney's speech at the NAACP yesterday, quote, you can't possibly talk about jobs for black people at the level he's coming from.
He's talking about entrepreneurship, savings accounts.
Black people can barely find a way to get back and forth from work.
What do you mean savings accounts?
Starting your own business.
Black people don't understand that.
Those things aren't for black people.
Now she wants people to think that this country's so racist and so discriminatory that it doesn't let blacks have savings accounts.
The Democrat Party is the party that engineered all of those so-called predatory loans that led to the subprime mortgage crisis.
Guess who was the target of those loans?
It was blacks.
And they want you to believe that Wall Street bankers came up with the idea.
The idea was Bill Clinton's, feeding off an idea of Jimmy Carter's.
And it was rooted in this notion of fairness.
It wasn't fair that some people should have homes while other people don't.
And black people are being denied the American dreams.
Let's come up with a way to get them in.
Okay, we'll give them mortgages that they can't possibly pay back.
Janet Reno, Democrat, Attorney General Bill Clinton, told banks they would be investigated if they didn't participate in the program.
This is another historical reversal of fact.
Now it's Wall Street banks.
They came up with the program, instituted a program because they're racist and selfish and greedy.
What sensible businessman makes a loan to somebody that will never be able to pay it back?
What wizard comes up with a program like that?
Nobody does unless your government commands that you do it under fear of investigation or threat of investigation.
Now I mentioned Obama, he didn't show up, the NAALCP, and there's a simple reason he's got no story to tell.
He cannot go to the MAACP and engender a bunch of support based on what's happened.
He cannot ask them to give him four more years of this presidency.
He can't go and celebrate good times with them.
Remember, he's the first black president.
Historical, it was gonna mean so much.
It was gonna be the end of so much and the beginning of so much wonderfulness.
And it's been an utter disaster.
And not one positive thing Barack Obama can say to him.
So he sends surrogates out to make the conventiers feel sorry for him.
Yeah, they're attacking our president.
They're attacking our young guy.
You gotta have Barack's back.
You gotta make sure they don't get Barack.
You gotta protect Barack.
These people, okay, fine.
What's he doing for us?
Well, it doesn't matter.
He's got nothing to say to him.
He's got no good times to share.
He can't promise them anything better because he's not gonna change anything he's doing.
It's only gonna get worse for him.
He's got to finish the job, but he can't tell them that.
Finishing the job is misery for everybody.
But he did send a video.
Yes, the first black president sent in a video.
And this, we have two sound bites of it.
Here's the first of the two.
Good morning, NAACP.
I'm sorry I can't be with you in person this year, but I want to take a moment to thank your board chairman, Rosalind Brock, and President Ben Jealous for their leadership and strong partnership that they formed with my administration.
And I want to thank everybody at the NAACP's 103rd Convention for coming together, not just today, but every day, to bend the arc of the moral universe towards justice.
I stand on your shoulders.
Right.
And then, and then he told them that he's creating ladders to the middle class.
Now that was Romney that went and talked about ladders to the middle class.
Romney is the one who treated them as equals.
Romney spoke to him as adults.
Romney spoke to them as men and women who have the same objectives for their families as he does.
An improved standard of living, more freedom, great quality of life.
That's what Romney went and spoke to him about.
But Obama, he's telling them he is building ladders to the middle class, which of course implies what?
There aren't any blacks in the middle class, which is what these people all want everybody to think.
I will get up every single day and fight as hard as I can for that big, diverse, hopeful, optimistic, hard-working America that we love.
An America where we're looking out for the middle class, an America where we're creating ladders for people who are willing to work hard to get into the middle class.
That's my promise to you.
And if you keep standing with me, if you keep persevering like the NAACP always has, then I know that we can arrive there together.
Thank you so much.
I'm proud of all that you do.
Folks, it's an alternate universe.
It is the Twilight Zone.
I had time to go to George Clooney's house.
I had time to hang around with his girlfriend.
You ought to see that, babe.
She's six feet tall, former WWE.
I mean, you ought to see her moves.
I got to spend time with her.
I spend some time with uh Alex Rodriguez and Cameron Diaz.
I'm all over the place.
I got time.
In fact, I'm going over to Paris.
Well, I don't know if I'm going to be able to get there, but Clooney's going to be raising money for me in Paris in August.
I'll probably go over the Olympics.
I'll watch the swimming.
I'm not going to Martha's Vineyard.
That wouldn't look good, but I've been there the last two years.
I I had time to go to New York.
You know, Michelle and I went to the greatest Broadway play, a couple of nice restaurants.
Um we took both Air Air Force One.
You know that we and we went to Spain.
Well, Michelle went to Spain.
I uh I went to Hamburger Heaven, but uh doesn't matter.
I just don't have time to come to Houston.
I just can't bop into your convention.
I had dinner.
Sarah Jessica Parker's house, oh, I wish y'all could have been with me there.
Anna Winter from Vogue magazine came in.
We had these clods, uh uh members of the public that want a chance have dinner with me.
And uh I'm going back to San Francisco, I'm going back to Beverly Hills.
I got some more uh fundraising due with some movie stars.
I've been to a hundred and fifty-eight fundraisers, and I'm having more fun, I'm eating well, everything is just exactly as I had a match.
I just don't have time to come to Houston.
Now I gotta go because Clooney's on the phone.
There's some problem with Paris that I gotta figure out.
But you keep doing what you've been doing.
We're going to be just fine.
We're going to be just fine.
Your guiding light, their times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, and decay, even the good times, too.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
And folks, we have an SUV update.
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Some of the great stuff from the Great Archives is starting to repeat itself in the news.
It's coming up soon, but in the meantime, John in San Diego.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Al Russo.
How are you doing?
Good.
Thank you, sir.
Since we spoke last.
Hey, I was watching the speech last night on C SPAN, and uh I was very curious as to how Romney started talking about being a remote.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Did you call it CTRAP at first?
No, C SPAN.
C SPAN, okay.
And uh uh I thought it was interesting how Romney started a speech talking about being the Republican um governor of Massachusetts with only a 14% registered uh Republicans in it.
Right.
So I'm going, okay, where's this gonna go?
Well, the more he spoke, um the more enthused I became of the way he was speaking to them, treating them like adults, treating them like what every time he mentioned the middle class, he didn't say the black middle class and you.
He said I will do things for the middle class that will also help black Americans.
I mean, how many times did he tie those two together that whatever he does that's good for the country is good for everybody?
It's not just good for them, and I should say us, because I am a conservative black American and been a listener to years for 20 plus years.
Um, you know, it's good for everybody.
He didn't break them down into the to the class like the Democrats are gonna be.
So as he the more he spoke, I was saying to myself, Romney needs to stay engaged to this group.
Every place there's a large black group between now and the election, he needs to go to speak.
Because the reason why he only needs eight percent of the vote.
John, it sounds to me like if I were uh asked to analyze your point, it would be this.
Uh it seems to me that you're saying that Romney spoke to the NAACP as if they were not black.
Yeah, do you think we're human beings?
You're human.
You're you're just like you're like every other American.
You want an opportunity, you're gonna get an opportunity in my America.
It's not because you're a special class, it's because you're an American.
And I'm gonna do what's good for this country, therefore you're gonna benefit too.
You know, and like I said, he only needs eight percent of the vote.
If he gets eight percent of the black vote, Obama's done.
If he gets twelve, if the Republican gets twelve percent of the black vote, the Democrat Party In this country is over with.
Romney needs to stay in front of him.
He needs to stay engaged.
He needs to siphon off 10% of the vote.
Well, that's true.
I don't know about the percentages.
12%, certainly.
I think it would only take 5%.
If he could take 5% of the black vote, that'd be the end of Obama's chances.
With everything else being equal, that would be a uh a huge dent.
Well, it's an interesting uh uh it's an interesting proposition of this this idea, keep speaking to uh uh groups that don't support you.
Uh I thought yesterday that he was taking the occasion of this speech to make a broad-based but very uh condensed policy speech, because he knew he was going to have an audience above and beyond this group.
All the media is there, they're salivating, they're waiting, they want to see this group just chew Romney up and spit him out.
That's why they're there.
So Romney knows they're gonna be there.
And they know countless cameras and microphones are gonna be there, and the tape is gonna be rolling.
And he took advantage of this opportunity to speak to those people as though he was speaking to any other group of human beings.
And as we've as we've been told this is uh somehow it's it's it's helpful uh for the uh independent vote.
I look, I understand that theoretically, as you know, I have a little bit of a problem with it being necessary, but I understand it as as far as the uh as far as the theory goes.
But still, it seems now, after what, twenty-four hours.
It seems that the sands are shifting here, and the perception is that this is a big win for Romney yesterday.
Whereas some people thought it was uh not so hot, not so cool.
What I I'll just tell you what I said earlier.
I I think because of his approach to the group yesterday, because of what you said, he didn't speak to them as though they were of any particular race or ethnicity, spoke to them as human beings.
He treated them as equals.
He empathized with them.
We got the same desires in life as human beings, and this is what I'm gonna do as president to try to make it all happen.
I think that across the Democrat Party there was a collective uh-oh, combined with the fact that Romney looked good, and he he didn't break down during the booze, he didn't uh lose his composure, didn't lose his place, kept smiling, so he knew it was going to happen.
And I think that it's it's uh gonna redound positively.
I happen to agree with you on that.
Thanks for the call, John appreciate it.
Andy in Richmond, Virginia, your next here, the EIB Network Hello.
Hey, Megan Dito's Russ.
Uh I'm a rush baby.
Grew up on you in the in the early 90s, and uh I just had a little bit of a different take on the uh on Romney's appearance at the NAACP.
Uh really I'm actually referring to a call that you took uh in the last hour about a guy who was a Republican, his wife was an independent, and just kind of the idea that there's this striking thing that people noticed and that made them change their mind about Romney, and I think it goes back to uh so really one word, and that's courage.
Uh I think Romney, I think it's already been said, you know, he went into a place where everybody wasn't gonna agree with him, and I think we haven't seen that in a while.
I mean I uh and I think for myself, you know, there's always that concern that Romney might.
Wait, hold it, hold it, hold on just a wait just a minute.
See, now you're getting so uh uh I'm really on thin ice going in this direction, but you're getting to one of my little buggaboos here.
It's not the first time somebody went and spoke to a group and didn't agree with them.
McCain did it.
Jack Kemp did it all.
It's not the first time.
I'm not trying to take anything away from Romney here, but I am curious at how this one has made such a positive impact.
I'll take it, don't misunderstand.
But it's not the first time.
And plus, so the independents are now to be happy.
Oh, well, whoopy do.
The independents are quite well.
We finally got somebody who could go in and work with ho.
I'm having a heart attack, I'm so happy.
We've tried to get somebody going in and work together and compromise and get along.
Oh lordy, I love it.
Any courage, uh, and and that, you know, I mean, I I kind of I kind of want a leader who's gonna be willing to be like a Reagan who Stands up in, you know, in an occupied country and says, you know, this isn't right.
And uh, and so I think, and maybe maybe it has to do with, you know, I'll be honest with you, I'm following this election.
Just a second.
You are you're comparing Romney going to the NAACP with a Reagan going to the Berlin Wall.
I know it's not the same.
I know that's the same.
No, no.
If you're right, that's profound.
That is.
Maybe in our day and age that's what it's like, you know.
I mean, we haven't seen a president with that kind of guts, really.
I mean, you know, I like Bush.
I like Bush a lot, and I hate it.
Did Bush go to the NAACP?
But he didn't go every year, right?
After he was.
Well, but they ran an ad again, but didn't they disrespect him when he was there and he decided not to go or something?
Maybe this is like Nixon going to China.
Maybe this is like Nixon going to China.
But it's uh the w the reason I'm I'm a little bit perplexed is because it isn't the first time, yet it's being treated as though it is.
That's what fascinates me.
I'm not disagreeing with you.
I'm just telling you I'm I'm I'm fascinated with this.
Hey, if I can uh say one more thing, uh I I feel like I'm my story might be a lot of people's story, and that is you know what, I skipped the election four years ago, and I'm a young guy, and uh I really it was a stupid mistake on my part.
Uh, you know, four years four years mature, I thought, man, what was I doing?
And it really was because I just I I I didn't like McCain, and obviously was not gonna vote for Obama.
But I come around, you know what?
I wasn't a Romney guy in the beginning, but I tell you what, I'm gonna vote in this election.
And I think, and I hope, and I'm optimistic that there's a lot of people like me uh who would say that.
A lot of young repo uh guys, conservative guys who would say, you know, I didn't like McCain last time, I might have set out that election and said it was just not worth it.
I was living in Texas at the time, too.
There's nothing that nothing immature about your opinion of McCain.
Uh that's entirely understandable.
Not voting, yeah.
Yeah, you learn you're learning your lesson on that because there's always an outcome to that, whether you participate or not.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Don't go away.
Welcome back, Rush Limboy.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
We were discussing all this during the break here.
And we think that we have come up with the simple explanation.
Uh, Snurdley thought as soon as Romney's speech to the NAALCP was over that it was a home run.
And I wasn't uh quite certain because of the optics.
But he was convinced that it was a home run.
So time has gone on, time has passed, we have the various reactions from the media and so forth.
Now we're getting reaction from you, the callers.
And it and and in my email I'm checking too.
And then it's all good.
And a lot of people are saying this is gonna be good for the independence to see.
Now maybe I ought to just leave that alone.
Uh I probably just my instinct say leave that one alone.
I'll take it.
That's fine.
And I'm really busting out here wanting to talk about it, but I'm gonna read it in.
But it seems that the best way to describe why this particular speech by a Republican to an enemy group, in this case the NAA L C P was that Romney didn't go in and pander.
He didn't change his accent.
He didn't try to tell stories about all the black people he grew up with, or all the black people that taught him things.
He didn't pander.
He spoke to them as human beings.
Uh as Snerdley pointed out, it's like you're always asked, how would you approach the Hispanic vote?
Talk to him about conservatism.
Go out and talk to him as human beings as Americans.
We're all Americans.
We all want the same things.
We all have the same desires.
As human beings who are Americans, we all have the same desires for our kids and for ourselves.
And that's what I would say to him.
I wouldn't talk to him about being Hispanic.
I wouldn't say I got a special program for you because you're Hispanic or because you're black.
I was I got a program for the whole country because we're all in it together.
He said, Well, that's what Romney did.
That's how Romney came.
Romney came off as a guy who wasn't pandering to his audience.
He thinks Obamacare ought to be repealed.
He knows that audience don't want to hear that.
He said it and he stuck with it, and when they booed him, he smiled about it.
He didn't change one thing he believes in.
He didn't make one alteration in a policy that he has planned.
He didn't do he did he didn't pander in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Well, uh essentially, he spoke to the group as I would have.
And that is why he is being heralded.
I think as time goes on.
That seems to be the reaction.
And the left is getting nuts on this.
I think they're they're focusing on the booze.
It's like I said earlier.
I I think there's a collective uh oh.
Romney was supposed to walk out of there yesterday destroyed.
He was supposed to walk at least wounded.
The booze and the criticism and the lack of acceptance was supposed to have sent the signal that Romney's finished.
There's no way.
He doesn't have a prayer.
And it's just the exact opposite.
And in terms of Romney not backing down, here, grab audio subway 16.
This is a new TV ad from the uh from the Romney campaign.
It's titled No Evidence.
I met Romney and I approved this message.
When a president doesn't tell the truth, how can we trust him to lead the Obama outsourcing attacks?
Misleading, unfair, and untrue.
There was no evidence that Mitt Romney shipped jobs overseas.
Candidate Obama lied about Hillary Clinton.
So shame on you, Barack Obama.
But America expects more from a president.
Obama's dishonest campaign.
Another reason America has lost confidence in Barack Obama.
You don't do that.
You do not do that to the one.
You don't go there.
You don't call him a liar.
You don't call him on all these things.
He is lying about.
You know, he's out there saying that Romney outsourced all these jobs, and you look at all the outsourcing of jobs the Obama administration's engaged in it dwarfs whatever Bain Capitol has ever done, which is minuscule.
So point blank.
Romney's out calling Obama a liar and even using Hillary Clinton to help him do it.
Now Obama can't, he doesn't like getting booed.
Remember when he was in Boston, he told that joke about the trade of Kevin Eukulas and the White Sox.
He got booed.
He genuinely didn't understand it, didn't like it.
This guy's led a charmed life.
He's had a he's had a boundary shell around him, where he's been protected from criticism and this kind of stuff.
And not only has he been protected from criticism, he's been built up in his own mind to be almost messianic.
And he's bought into it.
So when he's criticized, when he comes out, he's supposed to be able to say whatever he wants because he's Barack Obama.
He's better than everybody else, smarter than everybody else.
And when you challenge, you you don't do that.
And Romney did it.
So the regime is responding.
It's in the political today.
Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter suggested that Romney may be a felon.
Obama.
Campaign manager Stephanie Cutter suggesting Romney may be a criminal.
She said this in a conference call with reporters today about a Boston Globe story that showed that Romney stayed at Bain Capitol three years past when he said he'd left.
Stephanie Cutter said that there were two ways to interpret the story.
The first is that Mitt Romney was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is a felony.
Or he was misrepresenting his position to uh or at Bain to the American people, if that's the case.
He was lying to the American people.
That's a real character and trust issue.
The Obama team's charges against Romney extended all the way to his handling of the Salt Lake City Olympics, which Cutter described as less than wholesome.
These aren't just campaign tactics.
This is important information.
They called on the Romney campaign to clear up the issue by releasing all of his tax returns to prove that he's not a felon.
To prove that he's not a criminal.
She said if the SEC filings are not accurate, then prove it.
Earlier today, Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in a statement the Boston Globe story was not accurate.
She didn't specifically respond to a request for comment about the felony business.
But it's just, okay, Romney calls him a liar in a TV ad, an effective ad, so they come out.
Well, you're a felon.
Can you lie to you when you left Bank Camp?
You broke the law.
You're a felon.
You better release your tax records and we can see.
Childish.
The I'll tell you what, the Romney campaign.
I know a lot of you in this audience don't like Romney.
I've heard from you.
I know you don't like him.
I know you think he's not conservative.
I know you think if he gets elected, he's going to cable and all.
I know you think this.
I'm just we'll see.
I'm just uh telling you he is.
His whole campaign is sticking to substance.
I would like it.
As I said earlier this week, it's a little bit more feistiness.
But this ad this is the kind of stuff I was talking about earlier in the week.
Treat these guys, treat Obama like you did Newt and Santorum.
Well, there it is.
You're a stinking liar.
And I'm gonna call you on it.
Nobody else had the guts to call you a liar, you little protected president, but that's what you are.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you're a fellow.
I don't think the regime is coming off well here.
And if you note the regime is now on the defensive, it's the regime that's reacting to the premises that uh are being set by by Romney.
While we're at the audio summit, you remember Hank Johnson, a Democrat in Georgia.
Hank Hank Hank Johnson is uh well here.
Grab do we have it?
I've got my stuff out of order here.
Is there a number 18 with Hank Johnson in it somewhere?
Somebody help me out here.
Okay, play that.
This is this is Hank Johnson.
This this will remind you who uh this guy is.
This is a island that at its widest level is what, twelve miles from shore to shore, and at its smallest level, smallest location at seven miles between one shore and the other.
My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and uh and capsize.
We don't anticipate that.
That is Congressman Hank George uh Johnson of Georgia.
He was talking about the island of Guam during testimony at a hearing on the 2011 defense budget request.
He was talking to Admiral Robert Willard to the Navy, and he was afraid that uh that that Guam was becoming so overly populated it would tip over and and capitalize.
Now I remember see everybody on the other side of the glass in there is laughing uproariously.
They can't stop it.
Their sides are hurting, they're laughing so hard because Hank Johnson said to an admiral in the Navy, you're worried about Guam tipping over and capsizing because of population.
Now, when he said this, I, L. Rushball was gracious.
If you'll recall, I said Hank Johnson, I said it'd be polite as I could be, that he wasn't well, and and that it was well known that he was sick, he was suffering from some thing.
I don't know if it was a mood swing uh uh mood disorder, I don't remember what it was, but it was a it was a legitimate guild.
And I did not join the cacophony of laughs, like you insensitive boobs in there are doing now.
Okay, just I want to get this on the record.
When Hank Johnson told the Navy he thought Guam was gonna tip over and capsize because of population, I did not join the chorus of laughter.
Well, yesterday, Hank Johnson, that's actually this morning, on the House floor, Hank Johnson during a debate on domestic mineral production.
Almost a year ago, the Natural Resources Committee produced H.R. 2011, the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Policy Act, a bipartisan bill that actually did address supply vulnerabilities for truly strategic and critical minerals policy.
Unfortunately, I understand that bill was obstructed by Republican leadership.
I wonder why.
Could it be the Koch brothers?
Things go better with COT.
Could it be because the mining industry instructed them to attack environmental regulations instead?
Did someone get a phone call from Rush Limbaugh with instructions?
So Hank Johnson could be said defended by me when he said that he feared Guam would tip over and capsize because the population of Guam lived on one side of the island and is getting too big.
Now Hank Johnson accuses me of calling somebody giving instructions to defeat the mining bill.
Why isn't Hank at the MAACP convention?
Well, it's a good question.
Does Hank have a savings account?
Does anybody know does Hank Johnson have a savings account?
*music*
No, I don't know what to do about it.
I I really don't know what to do about it.
No, no, no, no.
I seems like I don't even know if I ought to mention it.
I guess I have to now.
Everybody and their uncle has a book out now, and everybody and their uncle wants me to talk about their book to you.
And I don't know how to do it.
I just believe.
Anyway, um I just gotta know.
How come you haven't mentioned my book yet?
I got other things to do.
If I mention yours, I got 15,000 others that I don't.
Anyway, back to the phone.
Rich White Plains, New York.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Mayor Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I was w I've been watching all the news reports about Romney addressing the NAACP, and um, I think there's something that's being strategically left out by the drive-by media, and that's to mention the fact that he was invited.
Uh uh you know, and they seem to come at this story with the perspective that, you know, he went down there to lecture them or something like that.
And I think he was set up.
I think the White House, because we all know that the NAACP and and women's groups and and PETA are not they're liberal groups.
They're not, you know, the groups they claim to be.
And uh he was being set up.
Yeah, but but uh the Republican presidential candidate is always invited to speak to the NAACP.
It's not this is not the first time it's happened.
And I get your point is they want to make it sound like Romney forced his way in there and then wanted to go, but it's a standing invitation, just like it is a standing invitation to president every yeah uh to show up and speak.
Interesting.
Um Cleola Brown, uh the representative of the NAACP, who invited Romney to speak, um, said the point of inviting Romney to the convention wasn't to give him a chance to win over African American voters, but to show respect for the NAACP.
So that's their point of view is you're just here to kiss our ring.
Yeah, you're there.
You're you're there to suck up to us, but you're also there to hear what we expect.
Yeah, what we want from you.
You're I I get your point.
I I think my point is if he didn't show up or he did show up, the the liberal media would have spun it either way they want.
And and what I notice strategically missing from news reports, and of course, people don't know this.
You know, Rush, you say, yeah, you know, traditionally he's invited.
Well, people don't know that.
I I you know, I think he to do uh due diligence in your reporting, you should say, when when, you know, the presidential candidate Romney was invited to speak at the NAACP convention, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But you're asking for actual reporting and and fair.
You're not gonna get that.
That's a that's a lofty expectation.
Look, I get your point.
A lot of people don't know that Romney's invited, that he just stormed his way in there or forced his way in and made them listen to him.
Here's the reason why this apparently this disappearance but Romney is apparently such a success, is because everybody knows this is a setup.
When I say everybody, I'm talking about in the political class, Rich.
Everybody in the New York, Boston, Washington Media Corps knows that every time a Republican goes to the NAALCP, it's a setup.
That's essentially what you're saying.
It's a setup.
It's a setup because there's no way any of these people in there are gonna ever vote for Romney, nor are they gonna leave there and tell anybody else to vote for Romney.
It's a setup.
That's why Romney is receiving such rave reviews over.
He walked into the setup and he didn't pander to it.
And he didn't buckle to it.
And that's why the reviews that he's getting, starting to trickle in now, are positive.
Music We have another one, Roscoe, or Amos Brown, Amos Brown, NAACP board member criticizing Romney.
The NAACP convention is references to the importance of family.
For Romney to come here lecture us about the family, he doesn't need to be talking to Negroes about that.
Who tore up the family?
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