Comparison: Barack Obama and Sarah Palin on Special Olympics
Rush Limbaugh, E.I.B.
March 20, 2009
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RUSH: We'll go to Louisville and Ann. It's nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. Mega dittos from Louisville.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I'm calling in response to Mr. Obama's remark about Special Olympics.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I've had the privilege of being associated with that community for 46 years with my daughter. His backhanded apology was as insulting as the remark.
RUSH: Just an offhand re--
CALLER: He meant exactly what he said, and it shows the character of this man.
RUSH: Yeah, I agree. I think he's a cold guy. I think he's got a chip on his shoulder. He's got a little anger out there -- and remember: there was no apology forthcoming until people started calling the White House. This is something. If it had been me and I had said that, I would apologize in the middle show. "Jay, look, I'm sorry about that. I'm trying to make fun of myself. I'm a lousy bowler. I'm just trying to make fun of myself." I would have done it right then and there. I wouldn't have said it in the first place, but...
CALLER: I feel this man's presidency has been driven by response to what he thinks is racial prejudice.
RUSH: Did you like him before this comment or not?
CALLER: No.
RUSH: Yeah?
CALLER: I didn't. But this certainly... I know there isn't many other --
RUSH: Well, just --
CALLER: -- huge issues here, but this is important to us.
RUSH: Just remember, Ann: this man cares. George W. Bush was a village idiot. This man, he cares.
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RUSH: We just had the call from Ann in Louisville, who has been with Special Olympics for 46 years because of one of her children, and she was among many who are offended by Obama's comment on The Tonight Show. The point she made was his apology didn't do it for her. I want to go back to the first hour. I want to contrast two people for you. Do you remember during the presidential campaign how the media, the Democrats and the left, savaged Sarah Palin? It's expected. It's who they are. She was effective. She threatened them. She brought life and energy to the moribund McCain campaign. She had to be destroyed. That's the left's modus operandi. We expect that. However, we have some people on our side who also think that they are part of the best and the brightest.
They're smarter than everybody else, part of the New York-Washington media axis. They were referring to Barack Obama as elegant. "He's so elegant! He's so suave. He's so brilliant. He's so calm and cool. Soothing! He's just like Joe Camel! He's Joe Camel. This man is cool as can be. It's great." People on our side said, "It's great to have somebody as smart as we are running for president. It's great to have somebody as well spoken as we are. It's great to have an academic, somebody from Harvard Law, somebody from the University of Chicago Law School. It's great to have one of us, a fellow egghead running for office," and these same people said of Sarah Palin, "How vulgar!" People on our side said, "How vulgar. How uncouth. How so...middle class. That accent! Oh! D'oh! I just can't stand her accent. She had the baby?" People on our side were saying, "She had the baby with Down syndrome? No. Look at that! She's whipping these middle-American Republicans into a frenzy! This is bad. This is not how we're going to become a majority party. Sarah Palin? Oh, she's so vulgar." So, here's Barack Obama last night on The Tonight Show.
OBAMA: No! No! I -- I have been practice -- I, uh, have been practicing all alone.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
LENO: Really? Really?
OBAMA: I -- I, uh, bowled at 129.
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
OBAMA: Yes, I have!
LENO: Oh, no. That's very good. (clapping)
OBAMA: I swear it was like --
LENO: Yeah. Oh, that's very good, Mr. President.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
OBAMA: It was like Special Olympics or something.
AUDIENCE: (wild laughter)
RUSH: Yeah, I bowled a 129. Oh, wonderful, 129! Oh ho-ho! "Oh, that's very good, Mr. President," Leno says with a little cynicism. "Yeah, yeah! You know, it's like Special Olympics or something!" Yeah, Special Olympics. Here's Sarah Palin, March 7th, 2009, on her website, SarahPAC.com holding her baby with Down Syndrome, Trig, addressing the 2009 Special Olympics.
PALIN: When I first held Trig, it was like an hourglass turned upside down. My heart filled up with love, as my mind emptied itself of all the different worries and fears and concerns that I had. I had carried those while I was carrying him. Everyone wants their baby to be perfect. And with Trig, that's exactly what we got. Everyone worries about what the future holds for their newborn child. With Trig we have hopes and concerns and dreams just as we do for all our children, but one thing is certain for our family, and that's that Special Olympics is going to be a big part of his and our future.
OBAMA: No! No! I -- I have been practice -- I, uh, have been practicing all alone.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
LENO: Really? Really?
OBAMA: I -- I, uh, bowled at 129.
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
OBAMA: Yes, I have!
LENO: Oh, no. That's very good. (clapping)
OBAMA: I swear it was like --
LENO: Yeah. Oh, that's very good, Mr. President.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
OBAMA: It was like Special Olympics or something.
AUDIENCE: (wild laughter)
RUSH: "It was like Special Olympics or something." So there's the elegant and suave and intelligent, brilliant, well-spoken Barack Obama; versus the vulgar, uncouth, unsophisticated Sarah Palin. Here's another sound bite from Ms. Palin.
PALIN: Now thanks to Special Olympics, we know for certain that Trig is going to have every opportunity to enjoy sports and competition that all of our other children have. I know I don't have to worry that he's going to be on the sidelines, when he wants to be in the game. You know what the difference is between a hockey mom and a Special Olympics hockey mom? Nothing. For our family and for millions of other families with special, special children, Special Olympics gives us confidence and excitement for his future, and we've got big plans for this little guy -- and we can't wait.
OBAMA: No! No! I -- I have been practice -- I, uh, have been practicing all alone.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
LENO: Really? Really?
OBAMA: I -- I, uh, bowled at 129.
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
OBAMA: Yes, I have!
LENO: Oh, no. That's very good. (clapping)
OBAMA: I swear it was like --
LENO: Yeah. Oh, that's very good, Mr. President.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
OBAMA: It was like Special Olympics or something.
AUDIENCE: (wild laughter)
RUSH: There you have it side by side. The elegant, suave, sophisticated, brilliant, educated Barack Obama; versus the vulgar, unsophisticated, uncouth Sarah Palin. They're both talking about the same thing: the Special Olympics. Just to show you, just to show you how false images can so easily be created and magnified by the Drive-By Media, political parties, and so forth.
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Politico: Obama Apologizes for Remark ABC: President Obama Jokes About Being a Bad Bowler: 'It's Like the Special Olympics'* HotAir: The Special Olympics Joke |
March 26, 2009
Rush Limbaugh, E.I.B.
RUSH: You remember, they got all those jokes about how dumb George W. Bush is. In fact, I hadn't seen this. I was channel surfing around last night looking to see if I could find a movie worth watching, and I started with HBO because it's the first movie channel on DirecTV, channel 501; and I saw the stage show Will Farrell is doing, Good Night with George W. Bush or A Last Day or whatever. It was just outrageous, portraying this guy as the biggest boob, Looney Tune, stupid idiot on the face of the earth. It made me sick watching this stuff, and I realized, you know, that the theater wherever it was taking place was loaded with people laughing themselves silly. And we would never, ever get anything like that about Obama -- and this guy is truly, truly dangerous. I don't know how smart he is. You know, education is one thing. Common sense smart is another.
But let's talk about it. Bush: how-dumb-is-he jokes. We heard 'em all over the place. How about if we take the other tack with Obama? How about we start talking about how smart he is. Let's do some bits on how smart Obama is. He is so smart that he can increase the national debt by $9 trillion and brag that he's cutting spending by $4 trillion! He's so smart, he can say he wants us out of Iraq in 16 months and he can say that for the next 27 months. He's so smart, he can still say that today. He's so smart that he can say that he'll get the world to love us again, while Poland and England and France and Germany and the European Union are furious with us, not to mention the ChiComs. And he's going to work with Iran to stop nukes. All of this stuff is happening. The jokes are on us. When Bush was president, the jokes were on him. With Obama it's a total joke and the joke is on us, and it actually isn't funny. Hang on a minute. Where did I... I... I... (muttering). Oh, goody. Oh, here, as a prelude, grab audio sound bite 25. Can you find it in four seconds? Play it.
OBAMA: We could set up systems so that everybody in each house have their own smart meters that, uhh, will tell you when to turn off the lights, when the peak hours are, can help you sell back energy, uh, that you've generated in your home through a solar panel or through, uh, eh, other mechanisms. All this can be done, but it also creates jobs right now. Our biggest problem, we don't have enough electricians to lay all these lines out there.
RUSH: (laughing) The joke's on us! This is from his Internet town meeting just moments ago.
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New York Times: Obama's Interactive Town Hall Meeting National Review: Obama and Philosophy 101 Heritage Foundation: The Obama Budget: Spending, Taxes, and Doubling the National Debt |