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Obama Invokes Rush Limbaugh in New Spanish-Language Ads
The Washington Post (The Trail Blog) ^ | September 17, 2008 | Ed O'Keefe

Posted on 09/17/2008 11:39:34 AM PDT by MaestroLC

The Obama campaign has released new radio and TV ads in Spanish that seek to tie Sen. John McCain to anti-immigrant comments made by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The ads also suggest the Republican has "dos caras" -- "two faces" -- when it comes to his relations with Latino voters. The new messages, airing in Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, come in response to recent Spanish-language ads by the McCain campaign that suggest Obama is responsible for the collapse of last year's bipartisan immigration reform efforts.

"They want us to forget the insults we've put up with, the intolerance," the television ad's announcer says in Spanish as a picture of Rush Limbaugh appears onscreen with quotes of him saying, "Mexicans are stupid and unqualified" and "Shut your mouth or get out."

"They made us feel marginalized in a country we love so much," the ad continues. "John McCain and his Republican friends have two faces. One that says lies just to get our vote and another, even worse, that continues the failed policies of George Bush that put special interests ahead of working families."

The companion radio ad uses the same script as above and then continues:

"Don't forget that John McCain abandoned us rather than confront the leaders of the Republican Party. Many of us were born here, and others came to work and achieve a better life for their families -- not to commit crimes or drain the system like many of John McCain's friends claim. Let's not be fooled by political tricks from John McCain and the Republicans. Vote so they respect us. Vote for a change."

This Spanish-language ad battle started Friday, when the McCain campaign started airing a TV spot in Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico ...

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; ads; aliens; demlies; electionads; hispanicvote; libel; liberalbigot; limbaugh; lyingliars; mccainpalin; obama; obamabiden; smearcampaign; spanish; talkradio
Rush just spoke about this on his radio show and says he never made these statements. He said that he was misquoted and impugned.
1 posted on 09/17/2008 11:39:34 AM PDT by MaestroLC
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To: MaestroLC

Zero is just trying to get the illegal alien invader vote.


2 posted on 09/17/2008 11:40:57 AM PDT by MichiganCheese (Stop saying the media is biased; THEY ARE PARTISAN!)
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To: MaestroLC

What didn’t Obama’s parents teach him Spanish?


3 posted on 09/17/2008 11:42:13 AM PDT by driftdiver (No More Obama - The corruption has not changed despite all our hopes.)
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To: MichiganCheese

And here I thought they couldn’t vote. Silly me. /s


4 posted on 09/17/2008 11:43:04 AM PDT by RedCell (Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi)
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To: MaestroLC
You know... if they have to quote Rush, they're really desperate! HAHAHAHA

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

5 posted on 09/17/2008 11:43:04 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: driftdiver

Tell me this is not decending into a race war. We could have called this a year ago. When the chips (and the polls) are down, O-Baby goes for the Ace in the Hole as per usual.


6 posted on 09/17/2008 11:43:54 AM PDT by johnnycap
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To: johnnycap
I think this will have the same effect as the Dingy Harry letter smear. It will backfire on the Obama campaign. These people keep putting their foot in their mouth. I don't think Rush is worried.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

7 posted on 09/17/2008 11:47:30 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop; All

That is my thinking too..


8 posted on 09/17/2008 11:49:12 AM PDT by KevinDavis (McCain/Palin 08 Palin/Jindal 12)
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To: MaestroLC
LOL .... Obama may have just 'awakened a sleeping giant'

... Imagine what Rush can do if he really tries

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9 posted on 09/17/2008 11:50:35 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: MaestroLC
Stupid to run ads against a man with enough money to run ads a plenty against you and with enough wicked political wit to destroy you if you make him mad enough to do this in Spanish.
10 posted on 09/17/2008 11:50:53 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: MaestroLC

Chicago style lies/deceit nasty negative campaign tactics, all from the ONE who says his message is a positive one about hope and change.


11 posted on 09/17/2008 11:50:55 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MaestroLC

I’m not running to do the easy things,” McCain told the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce in a speech. “I defend with no reservation our proposal to offer the people who harvest our crops, tend our gardens, work in our restaurants, care for our children and clean our homes a chance to be legal citizens of this country.”


12 posted on 09/17/2008 11:50:58 AM PDT by donna (Sarah Palin: The Feminist ideal comes to fruition in the Republican Party. Betty Friedan laughs.)
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To: MaestroLC

Yes, right now Rush is reading the spot he did and he was talking about MEXICAN IMMIGRATION LAWS. O-child COMPLETELY blew the context. COMPLETELY.


13 posted on 09/17/2008 11:53:41 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (don't worry, they only want to take water out of the other guy's side of the bucket.)
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To: MaestroLC
You'd think that Hispanics would admire Rush Limbaugh, for using the Spanish nickname El Rushbo.
14 posted on 09/17/2008 11:55:34 AM PDT by Plutarch
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To: MaestroLC

BIG MISTAKE BY THE muzzie BUTTHEAD!

LLS


15 posted on 09/17/2008 11:56:18 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (GOD, Country, Family... except when it comes to dims!)
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To: Lady Heron

Rush should throw 5-10 Million on a counter ad to show what a gross distortion this is, chump change for him.


16 posted on 09/17/2008 11:59:41 AM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: MaestroLC

RUSH JUST NUKED THIS ON THE AIR !!

It was a comment taken out of context where Rush was simply reciting a **Mexican law** about foreign workers working in Mexico. Shut up or get out, applies to FOREIGNERS working in MEXICO.

Full monologue :

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/eibessential/immigration/morning_update.member.html


17 posted on 09/17/2008 12:00:01 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: NonValueAdded
"O-child COMPLETELY blew the context. COMPLETELY."

AND DELIBERATELY!!!

18 posted on 09/17/2008 12:00:39 PM PDT by SierraWasp (I'm not against the environment, just GovernMental EnvironMentalism!!! (our new state religion))
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To: MaestroLC
The DemonRATs gave homes away for free with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Now they are buying another set of dependents by giving citizenship away for free, while the rest have had to earn it.
19 posted on 09/17/2008 12:00:50 PM PDT by jonrick46
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To: MaestroLC

excuse me, but does anyone know the percentage of illegals that are felons? oh I forgot, the ONE will fix thier issues with change


20 posted on 09/17/2008 12:02:55 PM PDT by peace with honor
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To: MaestroLC

libel?


21 posted on 09/17/2008 12:03:56 PM PDT by Sybeck1 ("Country First"....baffled which one though.......)
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To: MaestroLC

It outrages me that Democrats or anybody else should be allowed to make and broadcast election ads in Spanish. If you can’t understand English you shouldn’t be voting in this country. This makes me nuts.


22 posted on 09/17/2008 12:04:14 PM PDT by Argus (Obama: All turban and no goats.)
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To: MaestroLC

¡Viva El Hombre Peligrisimo en America!


23 posted on 09/17/2008 12:04:22 PM PDT by RichInOC ("Felicidades, conversacionalistas en todo el Llano Frutado!")
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To: MaestroLC

Rush DID say these things: He was quoting from MEXICAN immigration law!


24 posted on 09/17/2008 12:04:41 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: MaestroLC
"Mexicans are stupid and unqualified"

Did Rush say that? I want to see the context if so.

25 posted on 09/17/2008 12:05:57 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: MaestroLC

DANG!!!!! It tells me the video is unavailable......!!!???

What is going on?


26 posted on 09/17/2008 12:07:49 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer) (\)
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To: NonValueAdded; Elle Bee
"Yes, right now Rush is reading the spot he did and he was talking about MEXICAN IMMIGRATION LAWS. O-child COMPLETELY blew the context. COMPLETELY."

Rush could/should run an ad of his own [in Spanish] to correct this lie. Then, run one in English to shove this lie right back in Hussein 0bama's face. Sort of like a couple "morning updates". Perhaps, even on TV. Rush seems fired up and anxious enough about a possible 0bama presidency (as it would affect his livelihood) to jump in with his own ads...OR, if he's not allowed, get some 524 friends to do it for him.

I'm sure Rush's wheels are already turning with the other half of his brain and god-loaned talent.

27 posted on 09/17/2008 12:08:44 PM PDT by KriegerGeist (Lifetime member of the "Christian-Radical-Right-Wing-Conspirators")
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To: MaestroLC

 

 

28 posted on 09/17/2008 12:09:45 PM PDT by expat_panama
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To: MaestroLC

Connecting McCain and Rush is as laughable as connecting McCain to President Bush.

Desperation showing.

If they are maligning Rush I am sure he will be able to produce his own ad with the truth.


29 posted on 09/17/2008 12:11:34 PM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............)
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To: Geist Krieger

If there is one thing Rush is really good it, it is pushing back when being lied about.

He was just in Parade as the 8th biggest celebrity donator in the US - he sold the nasty letter filled with lies that congress sent him. Talk about making lemonade.

Any other of our politicians would be sputtering and whimpering. Rush lets them have it, one barrel at a time.


30 posted on 09/17/2008 12:13:23 PM PDT by I still care (A thousand screaming Germans, some fake columns and swooning girly-men does not a campaign make.)
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To: Geist Krieger
Rush could/should run an ad of his own [in Spanish] to correct this lie.

Maybe, maybe not.   In the first place latinos aren't that easily fooled by Dems.  Another thing is any response lends respect to the lie.  Finally, Rush isn't running for president.

31 posted on 09/17/2008 12:14:43 PM PDT by expat_panama
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To: Geist Krieger

DITTO Misqoute about Mexican Immigration Laws as well as Rush’s defense of NAFTA back in ‘94.

Zerobama is like school in the summertime...

No Class.


32 posted on 09/17/2008 12:14:52 PM PDT by BobRI (Dispicable)
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To: johnnycap
When the chips (and the polls) are down, O-Baby goes for the Ace in the Hole as per usual.

If Obama were of a lighter complexion, he wouldn't be able to push the Socialist crap he's trying to get voters to swallow. Only a "person of color" would be protected enough by his party and the MSM to be able to do and say what he is.

33 posted on 09/17/2008 12:15:56 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray every day for McCains, Palins and the USA...and the rest of us, too.)
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To: libh8er

You must be a 24-7 member, anyone without an account will come up with an “page unavailable” message. I think I heard him say that he was going to make the update available on his general page later today.


34 posted on 09/17/2008 12:20:40 PM PDT by voteNRA
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To: MaestroLC

Rush was quoting the laws of mexico about aliens that come there. The ad made it sound like it was what he said.


35 posted on 09/17/2008 12:24:56 PM PDT by jincarolina (I)
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To: voteNRA

0h sorry , I am . :) It’s also available on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHPm_TEQ0PA


36 posted on 09/17/2008 12:28:06 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Redbob

how damn stupid are hussein the muslims writers to NOT know that rush was talking about the mexican laws? how many liberal gomers stepped on their dicks a few years back over this same story when rush first read this on the show? yeah, a bunch of ‘em. pure childs play when it is the truth detector against the libs.


37 posted on 09/17/2008 12:32:33 PM PDT by bobby.223
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To: MaestroLC

Now Barry is running against Rush Limbaugh.


38 posted on 09/17/2008 12:33:35 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: All

Please!!!

Where is that video in Spanish?!!!

It did not work for me at the top!!!!


39 posted on 09/17/2008 12:38:42 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer) (\)
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To: All

PS

How can anybody keep yammering about this if no one has heard the video in Spanish?

I need to know you great FR folks. Please help.


40 posted on 09/17/2008 12:43:52 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer) (\)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

Okay folk. got it.

Thank you.

It is the usual Latin crap.


41 posted on 09/17/2008 12:49:07 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer) (\)
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To: MaestroLC

Obama is a vile, ignorant, despicable, American hating narcissist. Reap what you sow fool.


42 posted on 09/17/2008 12:50:25 PM PDT by Vision ("Test everything. Hold on to the Good." 1 Thessalonians 5:21)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
"It is the usual Latin crap."

Please elaborate.

43 posted on 09/17/2008 1:00:26 PM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: MaestroLC

Rush should sue the messiah for slander.
Wouldnt that be great?


44 posted on 09/17/2008 1:57:56 PM PDT by mouse1 (McCain/Palin 08 Palin/Jindal 12)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

Try this one:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2008/09/obama_dos_caras.html

It worked for me.


45 posted on 09/17/2008 3:59:17 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day ("If someone is coming to kill you, rise early and kill him first" (Sanhedrin 72a and parallels).)
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To: MaestroLC

I think Obama just effd up agin


46 posted on 09/17/2008 8:45:07 PM PDT by valkyry1 (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: MaestroLC
Hey Hussien O. you are wrong with your hit piece of an ad. Zero is going for the ILLEGAL votes, because the LEGAL votes will vote for McCain/Palin.

Zero, Rush was saying that if you don't speak SPAINISH in Mexico -- LEAVE. And we need to tell the people in AMERICA to SPEAK ENGLISH or leave!

47 posted on 09/18/2008 2:54:52 PM PDT by MaineConservative (Obama, we aren't electing McCain for president of GEEKS-On-Call, but for President of the USA)
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