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Sept. 23, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 23, 2016, Friday, Hour #2
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Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
At three 800-282-2882, if you want your big showbiz break and have a chance to appear on the most listened to radio talk show in America.
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You want to go that way, L Rushbo at EIBNet.us.
So I got a note.
I got an email here from the editrix at the Limbaugh Letter.
That's the most widely read political newsletter in America.
Dear boss, I sadly think your caller is right.
I think Hillary is going to be on a higher platform to make her look equal to Trump.
A podium, and she's got dictionary definitions here, as though I don't know what these things are.
A podium.
A podium is the raised platform on which the speaker stands to deliver his or her speech.
Podium derived from the Greek word Clinton, which means foot.
As in podiatrist, a lectern is a raised slanted stand on which a speaker can place his or her notes or secret telepromp.
Lectern is derived from the Latin word lectus, the past participle of the verb legir, which means to eat vegetables.
The word lector comes from the same source.
So I was confused.
Anyway, it's a long way of saying that the caller might have been right that they're gonna have her jacked up by virtue of the podium she's going to be on, will so make her look equal in height to Trump.
I remember uh Coco Jr., I think over at the uh No, Coco, the website sent me a picture.
They parodied this.
You know, Michael Dukakis was also like 5'2 or 5'3.
Governor Massachusetts run against George H. W. Bush, who's 6'4.
He's tall.
And they parodied that it in those debates between Bush and Dukakis, they didn't.
They didn't equalize things for Dukakis.
And Saturday Night Life parodied it by having the lectern at Dukakis's played by John Lovitz at his forehead.
And it was funny.
It was funny.
That's all get out.
So apparently now we're a little confused because they refuse to let her have a stool.
But what they're gonna end up with is even better than a stool.
By the way, she used to need a stool to get into her van.
She had a step stool to get into her vans.
And then they had that 9-11 thing.
There wasn't a step stool.
They've got a new van with the very, very low entrance there that they uh they use to transport residents of seasoned citizens' homes and seasoned citizens' villages.
So they got one of those kind of vans for Hillary.
So she doesn't need a step stool.
I think if they if if if if this is right, if the podium is going to be different for her and elevated, that's better than a step stool.
But look, doesn't matter, folks.
It's it that that the real question is not is not that.
I posed the real questions in the previous hour, and I'm gonna repeat them very quickly here.
If now the rules say 90 minutes, no commercial breaks, no stoppages, no nut no bathroom breaks, no coughing breaks, nothing.
And you know the Clinton camp, they're sweating that out.
Hour and a half.
That's well, anyway.
If she has an episode, if she if she has her one of her coughing spasms, which can go on for four minutes, or if she begins to look like she's feeling faint, or we've seen her have seizures, we've seen her the head bobbing and the eyes, if any of that stuff happens, the question is should Trump walk over and offer helpful assistance or not.
That's question number one.
Question number two, what does Trump have to do to at the end of this thing be proclaimed to have really kicked ass, really won it?
What does he have to do?
What are the expectations?
What does he have to do to meet them?
In your opinion.
Did O'Hillary.
So those are the questions on the table.
If any of you people out there calling in want to tackle it, I'm going to answer all this at some point on the program.
If I were to answer them now, there'd be no reason to listen to what anybody else says.
Because when I say it, that pretty much wraps it up.
So again, the telephone number's 800-282-2882.
Trump on his debate prep.
But one other comment about his thing about people over prepping, you do not know how right on that is.
And I can even give you a little bit of a sample of that using myself.
If I happen to be away for more than a weekend, if I'm off here for two days or say a whole week vacation, I don't stop acquiring knowledge.
I don't stop perusing the news.
And so by the time my first day back shows up, I've got so much stuff that I can actually recall the first hour of the first program after a vacation just sounding horrible because I was paralyzed.
I didn't know what to do first, didn't know what to do when, didn't know what importance to assign.
This was just too much.
I just I'd crammed too much, and instead of just following my instincts and going with the flow, I started trying to calculate.
Okay, what do people want to hear?
What happened when I wasn't here?
They want to hear what I have to think about it, and started doing all that, and you you end up with brain freezes.
Trump is exactly right.
You can overprep they overprepped Reagan in his first debate with Walter F. Mondo.
You people, if you weren't around when that happened, that'd have been 1984, and this was a slant.
This is Reagan was going to win this in a landslide.
Everybody knew it.
But the first debate came and Reagan appeared not there.
Well, not that he didn't appear there.
He just seemed stymied on a number of things.
And he'd just been overprepped, overcoached, over prepped by all of the aides and all the consultants.
And so the second debate, Reagan smoked Mondo from the opening bell.
So Trump is right.
You can over-prepare for these things.
Let me add on to the question.
In order for Trump to do well, does he have to be able to explain what the nuclear triad is?
Does he have to be able to use terms like, well, what my policy would be in the subcontinent?
Uh would certainly have to do with what they're doing in the Arabian peninsula, because the Arabian Peninsula has an inexorable relationship to the subcontinent.
He has to do that kind of stuff.
In order to establish bona fides, in order to establish credibility, does he have to be able to George Bush W had to do that in one of his debates?
Remember Condoleezza Rice, you know, after the first debate.
George Bush.
Interesting, if you go back and look in 2000 in the debates against Al Gore, and in 2004 against the debates against Lurch, John F. Kerry, I don't think people would disagree with me if I were to say Bush didn't win one of them.
Now he didn't disqualify himself at the same time.
Gore did in the first debate between Gore and Bush.
It was obvious Gore's attitude was, what am I doing here?
This guy is a neophyte.
This guy Bush, he's a plebe.
I don't even know why I have to show up.
This is so beneath me.
And he spent the whole debate sighing.
With every response that Bush gave.
Al Gore's response was.
And it really irritated people after a while, just because it was irritating by itself, but because of why Al Gore was doing it, it was very condescending.
See, Hillary, she can flash all these terms like subcontinent, Arab and Arab peninsula, diaspora, the biosphere of biaspora.
She can do all of this.
She can start naming generals.
She can naming ambassadors and third ambassadors that are still alive after she was secretary.
She can do all of that.
Kind of snuck that one in there, did you notice?
Trump can't do any of that.
Does he have to?
Does he have to?
I mean, we're talking about the presidency here.
No, of course I can answer all this, but I don't want to.
I want to wait, I want to see what people have to uh say about this.
So there are expectations, both of them have them.
What does Trump have to do to meet and surpass his?
What does Hillary have to do?
And there are negatives too.
What can they do to blow it?
What would Trump do?
That would give him trouble, growing his base.
What could Hillary do that could amplify what the negatives about her already are?
And it's hard for her not to lie.
That's something that the Trump people are going to have to struggle with here.
Not only do they have to ask themselves, and don't doubt that they are, if she gets in distress, what do we do?
Does Trump go over there and physically try to help her or not?
If she gets in a moment of dispress distress and the rules say no stoppages and no breaks, does Lester Holt nevertheless go to a break?
I know what's going to happen.
I mean, I don't know, I don't, but I pretty confident I know what's going to happen if Hillary has an episode.
I don't know what Lester's going to do.
I think I know what Trump would do.
This is what I think he should do.
Not told anybody.
I'll share it with you in a moment after we get some feedback on it from people on the phones.
By the same token, you know, Hillary's negatives, Trump has negatives.
What do they have to not do to amplify those?
This is you can get pretty in the weeds with uh with this analysis.
But here's the big thing.
The one advantage Trump has that Hillary doesn't have.
He just does well on TV.
He obviously relishes being on TV.
He knows how to do TV instinctively.
He looks good on TV.
He looks like he belongs there.
Hillary's stiff and doesn't, she doesn't have any of the natural accoutrements that shine through on TV.
See Hillary on TV, you don't want to see any more of her.
You don't, particularly if you're changing channels and Hillary's there, you're not going to stop.
You will stop if you're changing channels.
If you're if you're if you're uh surfing and you say Trump, you'll stop.
See what he said.
You won't with Hillary.
It's that kind of stuff.
In fact, grab a soundbite.
What is it?
We've got soundbite number 12 in 13th.
Phil Donahue.
I told you I saw him yesterday.
I saw him yesterday on TV on CNN.
I said, Well, I hadn't seen him in a long time.
He looked good.
It's like he's he found Vladimir Posner.
He was on with uh Poppy Harlow.
And they were talking about the presidential race, and Poppy Harlow said, Chris Wallace has come out and said that I don't believe it's my job to be the truth squad in the debates.
Oh, that's she'll that's another monkey wrench we have to throw in this thing.
What do the moderators do?
Do they go candy crowley or when a candidate knowingly lies, do they shut up and leave it to the audience to figure it out?
Well, she's asking Phil Donahue about that by posing what Chris Wallace says.
He says, I'm not I'm not gonna call it if they lie, I'm I'm not gonna be the truth squad.
And he's gonna be moderating one of the debates, but there is an element of fact-checking for who's facilitating the debate.
She's asking Phil Donahue this.
Is it the role of moderator to fact check?
That's what Candy Crowley thought she was doing.
It's out of place.
It doesn't belong.
But here's Poppy Harlow sounding like she's advocating it.
And here's what Phil Donahue said.
Nothing bothers the press more than bad press.
Like Matt Lauer got a lot of pompous press went around saying, wasn't that awful?
Wasn't it awful?
And they really hit hard.
I think harder than is necessary.
A little bit self-righteously.
I'm saying let's relax a little bit.
And I feel for Lester Holt.
I think now he feels obliged to push back.
And the result is going to be verbal arm wrestling.
I think if you just let them go, their real selves will manifest, will become more clear.
And if they're bawdy and uh disrespectful and pushy, they will fall of their own weight.
Let's just trust the audience for once.
Oh, the drive-by is can't leave it up to that, Phil.
You should know that.
The drive-by's don't trust the audience.
They don't trust that.
But he's right.
He's right here, especially about what happened to Mount Wower and how Lester knows what happened to Mount Wower.
And if Lester doesn't want to get the Mount Wower treatment, Lester has got to go easy on Hillary and has got to really zero in on Trump.
That lesser knows he's got to do this.
So then Donahue, Donovan expanded on what he said, just let them be themselves, because the people will figure it out.
If some and what by the way, when when he says, hey, you know what?
If they're bawdy and disrespectful and pushy, who do you think he's talking about?
He's talking about Trump.
Hey, if Trump is gonna act like Trump, let Trump act like Trump.
The people will figure it out.
I would associate bawdy and disrespectful and pushy with Nurse Ratchet.
Anyway, here's uh here's how Donahue sorry, Donna Hugh wrapped it up.
Media has played a more central role in this election than any of the past elections.
Although it certainly was important in past elections.
You know, Donald Trump is like a guy in a top hat who just jumped out of the cake and ray for Hollywood.
And we're attracted to that.
If I had a show I put him on, the coin of the realm is the size of the audience.
And he draws an audience.
There's just no doubt about it.
I don't have to tell you.
If nobody's watching, we're all gonna be parking cars.
And he ensures a bigger audience.
He's been using that line since the first time I ever see his show.
If nobody's watching, we're gonna be parking cars.
Um but Trump is great TV.
He knows, and he said so.
Okay, we'll take a break, and you on the phones are next.
And we get back.
Okay, it's open line Friday.
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Zero.
Zero mistakes.
Here is Assie in Los Angeles.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hi.
Can you hear me?
I hear you fine, thank you.
Okay, so I just I was calling because I wanted to answer your question about what um Trump should do.
Oh, good.
If faint or if she were to cough, because I think he needs to handle it very differently.
Um I think if he if she faints, he actually should go over and be very commanding because it's a crisis, and the people need to see that he knows how to handle a crisis.
So he should say something like Lester, call 911.
Because like you said before, it's what he leaves the people feeling, and he'll leave them feeling safe.
And that's that's an important feeling for the American people to feel.
That, by the way, I want to thank you for reminding me, because this is gonna be a classic illustration of the old creed that performers live by, and it is this.
Nobody, very few people will really remember all the things you say, but they will never forget how you make them feel.
That's forever.
And you've just reminded me of that.
So you're you Trump's actions here will convey and and and and make people feel a certain way.
And so if she actually has something drastic, like you say, fainting, then yeah, your opinion is he should make tracks over there and ask Lester to call 911.
What if they ban cell phones in the room, though?
Then what do you do?
Um, I think you should go over and and command the situation.
Uh if he knows what to do and how to handle it, or he's doing his best to handle it because he's showing leadership.
And Now what happens, here's what's gonna happen next, though.
I'm I'm not I'm not disagreeing or agreeing.
I'm just if something like that happens, you know that she's gonna have how many doctors and nurses and and and staff that are backstage.
They're gonna be something like that happens, they may get to her before Trump does, or at the same time.
In which case, what should Trump then do?
Well, I think what you know, I think if if that's the case, I think even just still think uh, you know, um I think to me, like what would I like to see?
I think if he said, How can I help?
Like again, it's about being part of the solution.
Right.
So how can I help?
How can we solve this?
Okay, so the idea is to leave people feeling safe.
And I think that's now if she coughs, if she coughs, it if it's just a coughing spasm does not involve fainting or anything.
And I don't know that she's fainted.
She's had seizures.
No, I know.
I don't think she's gonna faint either.
But she may cough, which may not be a bad thing for him, but if she does, I don't think he should go over her at all.
I think he in fact should not bring any attention to him and let the discomfort let let there be the silence and her coughing, because then what's the feeling is discomfort, and nobody likes that feeling.
It's not a safe feeling.
And Lester's gonna be uncomfortable, and we're gonna see that discomfort, and we're gonna feel it, and we're gonna go towards him.
I mean, he should be compassionate in his eyes.
He shouldn't, you know, but just let let don't draw attention to himself.
Let it be on her.
Let everybody just sit and watch.
Kind of what I mean.
He can't help drawing attention to himself.
He's the just has that quality on TV.
But I know I know what you mean.
But look Well, this is where he has to be disciplined.
Well, here's the thing on the coughing.
You say let hey, she starts coughing, hey, people cough.
If he's speaking, he keeps speaking, she continues to cough.
Camera will not be on her, I guarantee you.
I have Ossi, can you hang on to the break?
Because I want to get your thoughts on on one more thing.
Good.
Yeah, be right back.
And we are back with Aussie in Los Angeles talking about what Trump should do if Hillary finds herself in distress.
Aussie, is there any circumstance in which you could see it would be appropriate for Mr. Trump to administer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation?
laughter laughter No.
He asked me to hold on for that.
No.
I don't think that would be a good thing to hear.
Okay, now having gotten that out of the way, you suggested if she if she starts coughing to let it happen that he should not do anything, and if he's speaking, he should just keep speaking and leave it up to Lester Holk.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, I'm not no, no, no.
I'm not sure.
Correct me then, correct correct me.
Okay, sorry.
Then let me be let me clarify.
I don't think he should keep speaking.
I think he should be show a level of compassion, you know, you know, maybe even say to Lester, you know what, why don't we just give her a minute and then resume?
But then and then just wait, you know.
She'll have water, so I don't think he needs to offer her water.
Well, wait a minute, reptiles don't uh sorry.
Yeah, that's funny.
She doesn't like water.
Well, I think he just needs to he I know.
Well If it if she's got a bottle of something clear, we need to be suspicious because she they've put it out that they find it hard for her to make her drink water.
In the context of her being dehydrated all the time.
I'm not just I'm just saying what they tell us about her.
No, I read that.
I know.
Okay.
But I again I don't think that I think he should be respectful and again just look at her kindly.
Okay, so the rules say no commercial breaks, no stoppages, no timeouts, but if she has an elongated coughing spasm, you think Trump should say, Lester, if we want to take a break, it's fine with me.
No, actually, I don't think you should take a break.
I think he should say, Lester, why don't we give m Mrs. Quentin a minute?
Well, that's taking a break.
That's that's taking a break.
Taking a break, but not a commercial break.
Just let let you know, don't resume, let's not talk over coughing.
Well, no, I didn't mean no, there aren't any commercial breaks.
I mean, let it be silent and let her cough.
Yeah.
And then everybody will sit there in complete discomfort again.
What you feel.
Let me tell you if let me tell you what there's a There's a potential backlash to that because of the gender card.
If she goes in a coughing spasm and doesn't stop, uh at some point some some some women are gonna say they could have done something to help.
They should have done something.
And it it it there's it's potential backlash here if there is no help offered if it gets if an elongated coughing spasm.
Here's the thing.
Those women are always going to be those women who are gonna think that.
That's not who this is.
We're not gearing this is not towards them.
This is to the independents who want to feel safe and want to know that they can trust Trump.
And that they can vote with him.
Those women are always going to do something.
I know, but we uh I hope you're right.
My imperson my impression of our of our society and culture today is that we we just we don't want to see any distress and if there's any distress, we've got to stop it.
It's not fair.
It's not fair.
Somebody should have done something.
Oh my god.
I that's just how I think a lot of people react.
It's this is not as simple and cut and dried as as it would appear, as my question on mouth-to-mouth resuscitation so aptly demonstrated.
But Asi, I appreciate your input because that's uh tough.
You know, I like I like her attitude.
Hey, we're if this is a debate.
This is who these people are.
She starts having a coughing coughing spasm.
I mean, that that's it.
You don't stop it.
The rules are there's no stoppages.
Um I'm not thinking of something.
I was thinking some concussion related, but I I don't want to go there.
That would have would Bill give her mouth-to-mouth research.
In public?
I don't know.
Probably.
Probably.
I would assume so.
Ahsi, thank you.
I appreciate it.
Uh great talking to you.
Here's uh here's Pat in Houston.
You're next.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Raj, thank you for taking my call.
It's an absolute honor to speak with you, sir.
Appreciate that, sir.
Thank you.
Uh, my question for you today is on the NFL.
And and since you're such a huge fan of the league, uh, given the ongoing issues, the concussions, the protests, the flake gate, that sort of thing, uh, do you feel vindicated for being forced to drop your bid for the Rams and not be an owner an owner in the league in 2016?
Uh well, that's a great, great question.
I don't know, not vindicated, but I've I've uh oftentimes I have subscribed to the belief that things happen for a reason.
And I think that this this this that whole Rams episode might be uh given everything that's happened since, not just with the Rams, but what's going on within the league, yeah, it probably was a good thing the way it it uh it it turned out.
But then again, uh you know it I don't want to get into karma or any of that.
It just it it happened the way it did, and at the time, at the time I was profoundly disappointed, and I knew exactly why it had happened.
And I knew where this whole thing uh came from.
It it came from the people that were overseeing the managing the sale of the Rams, the uh investment bank that was uh dealing with it and a bunch of leftists that work at that place.
But yeah, I I I have no regrets about it now.
If I mean if that if if that answers your question.
It does.
Well, I remember at the time, I think you said, you know, you would sit back and and take it and you were disappointed, but uh uh almost exactly what you said now.
Things happen for a reason and and in the end it would all work out and feels like it it did.
Sometimes the best is to sit back and watch it burn and and it feels like it's it's starting to happen.
I'll tell you this.
If if if I had any portion of ownership right now and the cash calls would just tick me off.
I mean, and now the TV rating's starting to plummet start uh that's I don't know that the league has their handle on this as to what might be behind that.
But that whole episode, I I I'll never forget all of a sudden there's the qu phony, fake, totally made-up quotes about me and slavery that started running in every newspaper in this country.
And they came from the lying sleas at Media Matters and the and the Particularly African American reporters just ate it up and reported it and regurgitated and not once even called me.
Did you really say this?
Not one call.
And of course I'd never said it.
They didn't want me to say I didn't say wanted to publish all that rot gut garbage.
But there were some good things that came of that that I haven't uh in terms of of friendships, personal relationships that I made with people as a result of that.
On balance, it all ended up fine.
I have uh I have no regrets over it.
I don't have regrets, period, because you can't do anything about them.
And everything that happens in your life ends up playing a role in where you find yourself at present.
Everything.
You can't cherry pick things in your past.
Jeez, I wish I'd done that differently.
Oh, wow, I wish that hadn't happened.
Because it all matters.
And it all is relevant.
It all is is part of the recipe that makes you who you are when you are at any particular point in time.
And it's on balance for me, it has it's been a uh net positive.
Some negatives, but they're not even close to uh the positives that resulted from it.
But I appreciate the question.
I really do.
Thank you, Pat.
We'll take a break here, be back and continue in just a moment.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I saw that uh what is it, seventy percent of the people arrested last night, North Carolina from out of state.
Just like Ferguson, just like Baltimore, 70% out of state.
Remember, in Tulsa, we had a white female cop shoot a black suspect, and now being charged of first degree manslaughter, and there's not a single black lives matter protest that's gone on in Tulsa.
Not one.
In Charlotte, we had a black cop shoot a black suspect.
Circumstances are still cloudy, and black lives matter, they're all over it in North Carolina.
There's not even a racial component, and yet three nights of protest, two of them pretty raucous, curfews, fires, looting, all of this stuff.
Why nothing in Oklahoma?
If this doesn't prove to you that all of this is political.
It's about the African American turnout in North Carolina.
Oklahoma's gone.
It's in a Trump camp.
They vote Republican, there's no hope.
North Carolina's still up for grabs.
70% of the people arrested from out of state in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Uh back to the audio sound bites before we get back to your phones.
Last night, all due respect, Bloomberg TV, John Heilman speaking with himself.
He was speaking about the debate.
And the uh uh strategery here that the Clinton campaign is working on.
They've been trying to do this thing for a little while now, which is to try to say to us, as reporters, all of us and sort of say, hey, there's been a double standard here.
You guys need to raise the bar on Trump.
Now I'm not in the old days, I'm fairly confident of saying this.
In the old days, a reporter would never admit that they were getting marching orders from a candidate.
They'd get the marching order.
I mean, the the campaigns would have always tried to manipulate and influence various media, but it's rare that the media tells us that the Clinton campaign, yeah, they're they're trying to get us to raise the bar on Trump.
Why?
What was Hillary worried about?
I thought Trump's a buffoon.
I thought Trump's incompetent.
I thought Trump doesn't have any business being president.
I thought Trump's the biggest ill-tempered gauche, gross, bombastic POS that's ever run for president.
What in the world do they have to raise the bar for?
They must be worried they're at at Camp Hillary.
If they're asking the media to raise the bar.
And here's Jonathan Carl, ABC, Good Morning America today.
And he uh talking about this Stephanopoulos is talking to him about all of this, The strategy.
The question, the Clinton team is working the jury.
All the reporters going to be covering this race on social media, the debate, the media, the Clinton campaigns already trying to prejudice them.
Exactly what is going on.
Trump is saying he's going to be treated unfairly.
He talks about this over and over again.
For Hillary Clinton, her campaign knows that the debate, as large as that audience is for the debate, the audience afterwards will be even more important.
They are encouraging their supporters to get out there and dominate social media to create the impression that she has won to try to shape the coverage and what is seen of the debate in the news coverage that follows.
Isn't this amazing now?
Who is this?
This is Jonathan Carl.
What does he do?
He's a reporter.
And he's admitting that they're going to be attempts to change his mind to influence him by virtue of how they dominate social media.
Why should any of that matter?
If I'm a reporter covering the debate, why do I have to go see what social media says to know what I saw?
Or to report what I saw.
Well, I'm it's a obviously it's a rhetorical question.
These guys are admitting they're gonna wait to see what social media says.
And if social media, if Hillary's team can dominate social media in the post-debate, the equivalent of the spin room, they can't wait to report that.
This is all part of my question.
What does Trump have to do to meet and surpass expectations?
Back to the phones to St. Louis.
This is Mike.
It's great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I wanted to make a couple of points.
The first one about the debate.
I agree with your previous caller.
I uh I don't think Hillary's gonna fall down.
But um, if she has a coughing attack, I don't think that Trump should really do anything except um maybe ask the moderator if someone can assist her.
Okay, he should not, he should not offer personal assistance at all, you don't think.
I do not think he should do that.
Um can I go to my second point?
Sure.
Yeah, that's about all the rioting.
You know, uh I just wish that this administration would give law enforcement as much leeway as they give the Islamic terrorists.
Exactly right.
You know, they do.
They look the other way.
They tell us we need to understand the rage and understand this or that and the other thing.
You that's a uh it's it's uh it's a good point.
Since you bring that up, let me get a soundbite from Obama here that may illustrate what you're talking about.
Good morning.
Grab soundbite number one.
We're up to uh Robin Roberts, good morning, America.
And she is uh interviewing Obama, interview taped at the New Smithsonian Museum of African American history and culture.
She said, and what we've seen recently in Charlotte, young people rising up, showing their frustration in a different way.
She doesn't tell him it's 70% of them are bust in from out of town, therefore paid to show up.
She doesn't tell, he probably knows he's probably behind the whole movement to bustle them in.
It's what a community organizer does.
You don't leave things to chance.
If you're gonna plan a riot, there damn well better be a riot, and you better make sure there are rioters there.
And if you have to bust them in from out of town, you do it.
So she says to him, when you and the rest of the world see what's going on in Charlotte, what goes through your mind?
It's important to separate out the pervasive sense of frustration among a lot of African Americans about shootings of people and the sense that justice is not always colorblind.
What we've seen over the last several years is the overwhelming majority of people who've been concerned about police community relations doing it the right way.
Every once in a while you see folks doing it the wrong way.
Looting, breaking glass, those things are not going to advance the cause.
And Charlotte, my hope is is that in the days to come, the people in the community pull together and say, how do we do this the right way?
It's a very impassioned to me.
It is like he's that interested to me.
I mean, you get right down to it.
Well, I hope they come together.
Yeah.
There's right ways, there's wrong ways.
There's perversion, there's not perversion.
There's pervasiveness, is not pervasiveness.
And uh it all it all boils down to how you separate It out.
Yeah.
Hope they get together.
Fine.
Really?
That's it?
Now you want to hear him get animated?
She says, you said it would benefit Trump to come here to this new African American museum.
Why do you think that?
This was in response to an assertion that he then repeated after my remarks that uh this is the worst time ever to be black.
I think even most eight-year-olds will tell you that whole slavery thing wasn't very good for black people.
Jim Crow wasn't very good for black people.
What we have to do is use our history to propel us to make even more progress in the future.
Right.
So he got a little fired up there with Trump's comments that uh uh worst time to be uh black.
That did set him off.
I uh this is one of those no wins.
But this is gets to my point that they've been voting Democrat for 50 years.
Or longer now.
And they're complaining about the same thing.
Everybody that votes Democrats complaining, especially minorities.
They've been voting Democrat for 50 years.
They've got the same complaints.
Nothing gets improved, nothing gets done, and the Democrats keep telling them how bad it is.
Obama and his buddies continue to tell them how bad it is.
They make it sound like it's as bad as it's ever been, that we haven't gained any ground.
I think that's all attributable to what the Democrats say and they campaign.
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