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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 soundbites of Joe Biden, NAALCP.
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 Wright.
I should learn from Reverend Wright.
And place erupts and cheer.
Hi, folks.
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
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You know, 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 Sheets Bird, Democrat West Virginia, was a grand wizard or Kliegel 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.
It 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 in Selma March, got beat upside the 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.
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 is 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 out.
Okay, well, 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 that came up with the program, instituted a program because they're racist and selfish and greedy.
What sensible businessman makes a loan to somebody who 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 NAACP 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 going to mean so much.
It was going to 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 could say to him.
So he sends surrogates out to make the conventioneers feel sorry for him.
Yeah, they're attacking our president.
They're attacking our young guy.
You got to have Barack's back.
You got to make sure they don't get Barack.
You got to protect Barack.
These people, okay, fine.
What's he doing for us?
Well, it doesn't matter.
He's got nothing to say to them.
He's got no good times to share.
He can't promise them anything better because he's not going to change anything he's doing.
It's only going to 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 soundbites 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 them 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 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 to the Olympics.
I'll watch this swimming.
I'm not going to Martha's Vineyard.
That wouldn't look good, but I've been there the last two years.
I had time to go to New York.
You and Michelle and I went to the greatest Broadway play, a couple of nice restaurants.
We took both Air Force One.
You know that we and we went to Spain.
Well, Michelle went to Spain.
I went to Hamburger Heaven, but it 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 claws, members of the public that want a chance, have dinner with me.
And I'm going back to San Francisco.
I'm going back to Beverly Hills.
I got some more fundraising to do with some movie stars.
I've been to 158 fundraisers, and I'm having more fun.
I'm eating well.
Everything is just exactly as I had imagined.
I just don't have time to come to Houston.
Now, I got to go because Clooney's on the phone.
There's some problem with Paris that I got to figure out.
But you keep doing what you've been doing.
We're going to be just fine.
Your guiding light.
There are 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.
There is SUV news.
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 Rushbo.
How are you doing?
Good.
Thank you, sir.
It's been 10 years since we spoke last.
Hey, I was watching the speech last night on C-SPAN, and I was very curious as to how Romney started talking about being a Republican.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Did you call it C-Trap?
No, C-SPAN.
C-SPAN, okay.
No, C-SPAN.
And I thought it was interesting how Romney started a speech talking about being the Republican governor of Massachusetts with only 14% registered Republicans in it.
Right.
So I'm going to go, okay, where's this going to go?
Well, the more he spoke, 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.
You know, it's good for everybody.
He didn't break them down into the class like the Democrats are going to be.
So 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 8% of the vote.
John, it sounds to me like if I were asked to analyze your point, it would be this.
It seems to me that you're saying that Romney spoke to the NAACP as if they were not black.
Yeah, do you think?
They were human beings.
You're a human.
You're like every other American.
You want an opportunity.
You're going to 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 going to do what's good for this country.
Therefore, you're going to benefit too.
You know, and like I said, he only needs 8% of the vote.
If he gets 8% of the black vote, Obama's done.
If the Republican gets 12% 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 what the percentage is.
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 huge dent.
Well, it's an interesting proposition of this idea.
Keep speaking to groups that don't support you.
I thought yesterday that he was taking the occasion of this speech to make a broad-based but very 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 going to be there.
And they know countless cameras and microphones are going to be there.
The tape is going to 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 been told, this is somehow it's helpful for the 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 far as the theory goes.
But still, it seems now, after, what, 24 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 not so hot, not so cool.
I'll just tell you what I said earlier.
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.
He 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 going to 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 Romney looked good, and he didn't break down during the booze.
He didn't lose his composure, didn't lose his place, kept smiling, so he knew it was going to happen.
And I think that it's going to redound positively.
I happen to agree with you on that.
Thanks for the call, John.
Appreciate it.
Andy in Richmond, Virginia.
You're next here.
The EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Megan Ditto's Russ.
I'm a Rush baby.
Grew up on you in the early 90s.
And I just had a little bit of a different take on Romney's appearance at the NAACP.
Really, I'm actually referring to a call that you took in the last hour by the 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 really one word, and that's courage.
I think Romney, I think it's already been said, you know, he went into a place where everybody wasn't going to agree with him.
And I think we haven't seen that in a while.
I mean, and I think for myself, you know, there's always that concern that Romney might.
No, wait, wait, hold it, hold it, hold it, just a second.
Wait just a minute.
See, now you're getting to, I'm really on thin ice going in this direction, but you're getting to one of my little bugaboos 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 not to be happy.
Oh, whoa, whoopee-doo.
The independents are going for, we've finally got somebody who could go in and work with them.
Oh, I'm having a hard attack.
I'm so happy.
We've finally got somebody going in and work together and compromise and get along.
Oh, lordy, I love it.
Any courage.
And that, you know, I mean, I kind of want a leader who's going to 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 so I think, and maybe it has to do with, you know, I'll be honest with you, I'm following this election the last time.
Wait, just a second.
You are.
You're comparing Romney going to the NAACP with Reagan going to the Berlin Wall.
I know it's not the same.
I know it's not the same.
No, no.
If you're right, that's profound.
Maybe in our day and age, that's what it's like.
I mean, we haven't seen a president with that kind of guts, really.
I mean, you know, I liked Bush.
I liked Bush a lot.
And I hate Bush.
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 the reason 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 fascinated with this.
Hey, if I can say one more thing, I feel like 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 I really, it was a stupid mistake on my part.
You know, four years mature, I thought, man, what was I doing?
And it really was because I just didn't like McCain and obviously was not going to 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 going to vote in this election.
And I think, and I hope, and I'm optimistic that there's a lot of people like me who would say that.
A lot of young guys, conservative guys, who would say, you know, I didn't like McCain last time.
I might have sat out that election and said it was just not worth it.
I was living in Texas at the time, too.
Oh, God.
There's nothing immature about your opinion of McCain.
That's entirely understandable.
Not voting, yeah.
Yeah.
You learn 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.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh.
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.
Now, Snerdley thought as soon as Romney's speech to the NAA LCP was over, that it was a home run.
And I wasn't 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 to the media and so forth.
Now we're getting reaction from you, the callers, and in my email, I'm checking too.
And it's all good.
And a lot of people are saying this is going to be good for the independents to see.
Now, maybe I ought to just leave that alone.
I probably just my instinct said, 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 going to rein 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 LCP, 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.
As Snerdley pointed out, it's like you're always asked, how would you approach the Hispanic vote?
Talk to them about conservatism.
Go out and talk to them 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 like, 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 pander in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Well, 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.
They're focusing on the booze.
Like I said earlier, I think there's a collective uh-oh, that 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.
You don't have a prayer.
And it's just the exact opposite.
And in terms of Romney not backing down, here, grab audio 7516.
This is a new TV ad 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.
You look at all the outsourcing of jobs the Obama administration is engaged in.
It dwarfs whatever Bain Capital 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 at Kevin Ukalis in the White South.
He got booed.
He genuinely didn't understand it, didn't like it.
This guy's led a charmed life.
He's had a boundaried 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 don't do that.
And Romney did it.
So the regime is responding.
It's in the politico 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 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 it he's not a felon, to prove it 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 me when you left Bain Camp?
You broke the law.
You're a felon.
You better release your tax records and we can see.
Childish.
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.
I know you think this.
I'm just, we'll see.
I'm just telling you, he is His whole campaign is sticking to substance.
I would like it.
So 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 going to call you on it.
Nobody else had the guts to call you a liar, your little protected president, but that's what you are.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you're a villain.
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 are being set by Romney.
While we're at the audio sound, but you remember Hank Johnson, a Democrat in Georgia.
Hank Johnson is 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 Hank Johnson.
This will remind you who this guy is.
This is an island that at its widest level is, what, 12 miles from shore to shore, and at its smallest level, smallest location, it's 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 capsize.
We don't anticipate that.
That is Congressman Hank 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, the Navy, and he was afraid that Guam was becoming so overly populated it would tip over 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, El Rushbow, was gracious.
If you'll recall, I said, Hank Johnson, I said to be as polite as I could be, that he wasn't well, and that it was well known that he was sick.
He was suffering from something.
I don't know if it was a mood swing or mood disorder.
I don't remember what it was, but it was a legitimate illness.
And I did not join the cacophony of laughs like you insensitive boobs in there are doing now.
I want to get this on the record.
When Hank Johnson told the Navy he thought Guam was going to tip over and capsize because of population, I did not join the chorus of laughter.
Well, yesterday, Hank Johnson, 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 Koch.
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 that was getting too big.
Now, Hank Johnson accuses me of calling somebody, giving instructions to defeat the mining bill.
Why isn't Hank at the NAACP convention?
Well, it's a good question.
Does Hank have a savings account?
Does anybody know does Hank Johnson have a savings account?
No, I don't know what to do about it.
I really don't know what to do about it.
No, no, no, no.
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.
You wouldn't believe.
Anyway, I just got to know.
How come you haven't mentioned my book?
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.
Nay, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I've been watching all the news reports about Romney addressing the NAACP, and 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.
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 women's groups and PENA are not, they're liberal groups.
They're not, you know, the groups they claim to be.
And he was being set up.
Yeah, but the Republican presidential candidate is always invited to speak to the NAACP.
It's not, this is not the first time it's happened.
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 year, to show up and speak.
Interesting.
Clayola Brown, the representative of the NAACP, who invited Romney to speak, 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, their point of view is, you're just here to kiss our ring.
Yeah, you're there.
You're there to suck up to us, but you're also there to hear what we expect.
Yeah, what we want from you.
I get your point.
I think my point is if he didn't show up or he did show up, the liberal media would have spun it either way they want.
And what I noticed 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.
You know, I think to do due diligence in your reporting, you should say when, you know, the presidential candidate Romney was invited to speak at the NAACP convention, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Well, you're asking for actual reporting and fairity.
You're not going to get that.
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 appearance with 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 going to ever vote for Romney, nor are they going to 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 are starting to trickle in now are positive.
We have another one.
Roscoe Bauer, Amos Brown, Amos Brown, NAACP board member criticizing Romney.
The NAACP convention is references to the important 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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