Posted on 05/12/2015 12:32:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Switching gears for a second. Eric Holder, the former attorney general -- when he was either being confirmed or his confirmation hearings in 2009 or shortly after he had been confirmed -- made a statement. You remember? He said that the United States was cowardly when it comes to the subject of race; that we need to have a real discussion of race, but the American people are afraid to do it. Do you remember the reaction to that?
The reaction to that was quite spontaneous and vociferous. The reaction on this program: "What do you mean, afraid to talk about? That's all we do in our country anymore! Everything that happens is reported on one way or another from a racial standpoint. What do you mean, afraid to talk about it? That's all people do!" The problem with talking about it is that you'd better say the right thing or Eric Holder and his representatives are gonna come along and try to destroy you.
They will love to have conversations about race, but only in ways they permit. Well, I took and take the attorney general at his word, and I do not fear discussing race on this program. I don't run from talking about it, and I do not do so in an incendiary way. And each time I do, I get raked across the coals. I get ripped to shreds in the Drive-By Media. I am purposely misunderstood, purposely misreported upon. Yet I continue to talk about it.
The comments I made to you following Michelle Obama's little remarks at the Whitney Museum -- which I found sad and disappointing and depressing, much as I found her remarks at the graduation ceremony at Tuskegee University -- well, CNN spent a lot of time raking me over the coals yesterday and last night, and it got ridiculous. Do you know why the Obamas are permitted to talk about race? Because it's their expertise. Wait 'til you hear these sound bites.
"Well, why shouldn't they talk about it? It's their expertise."
(interruption) Well... (interruption) Well, everybody... (interruption) Everybody has a race, then, and everybody has racial expertise. Don Lemon suggested that race is Obama's particular "expertise," as though it's a talent, or a developed skill! It isn't! So, anyway, when you do try to talk about it honestly -- when anybody does, not just me -- and it varies from what the Drive-Bys or the Democrat Party wants to hear, then they come for you.
Richard Cohen in the Washington Post remarks on it, his headline today: "Michelle Obama Criticized For the Sin of Being Black." No, she wasn't! I didn't criticize her for being black, and I didn't say being black is a sin. I didn't get anywhere near saying that. These people don't even listen. The problem with the conversation on race, whenever you engage in it, is that liberals don't listen to what you say.
They knee-jerk react, as we all know.
You know, I'm torn even talking about this because I don't want to give these people any amplification what they said, 'cause right now they're sitting there in their small universe of CNN and small universe of Washington Post.
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RUSH: Here's a modified version of the point I was making about what happens when you speak about something that the left claims people want to talk about. It happened last night on The O'Reilly Factor with Juan Williams. They were talking about Pam Geller and the cartoon contest and freedom of speech and who is permitted to have freedom of speech and who isn't, and O'Reilly said to Juan Williams, "The liberal fallback position is, 'Ah, the right does it too! The right does not have access to the New York Times or the LA Times or Yahoo or Google,'" O'Reilly said. "They don't. It's the left that pours this crap in."
WILLIAMS: What we're going through here in the country is it's difficult to have an honest discussion where people listen to each other. If people get on Rush Limbaugh, if they're on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal, if they are on a lot of these blogs and right-wing sites, they are all talking to each other, and guess what? They are making fun of the left and mocking the left.
RUSH: Now, I not quite sure what Juan's point is here. Because what O'Reilly is saying is there's all kinds of hypocrisy and the left can get away with all kinds of things the right can't, and Williams starts off by saying, "Well, you know, it's difficult to have an honest discussion where people listen to each other," and then he starts lambasting me and the Wall Street Journal as basically preaching to the choir and that all we do is mock and make fun of the left.
Has he never heard of Jon Stewart? Has he never heard of Saturday Night Live? Has he never heard of the Colbert Report, never heard of Letterman, never heard of take your pick of any left-wing broadcast, NBC, CBS, CNN? Mock? Make fun of? If that's where the left stopped, it might be okay, but they don't even stop at that. Anyway, O'Reilly's reaction to this coming up after the break. Sadly, I didn't get it in before then.
Has something to do with white mothers reading to their children and whites owning all the museums.
Trouble being Rush is that Propaganda works. America’s public opinion has been controlled since the 1930’s. “Three weeks of press treatment and the truth is recognized by all”-Oswald Spengler.
At a time when the Islamo-Communist POTUS is entertaining Al Sharpton as his Frequent Flyer of the Year. . . .. . .when The First Wookie has two dozen personal assistants paid for by working taxpayers, endless luxury vacations, yet conducts a grating, shrill racist rant from a podium she whines "does not pay". . . .
. . .when the outgoing Fast & Furious criminal AG is replaced by a racist who tells Congress she will follow the demagog what brought her, not the Constitution which made it possible. . . .
. . .when the candidate of 2007 is writing checks on the National Civilian Security Force prior to the January 20, 2017 close of business. . . .
. . .enters the jabbering coulda-woulda-shoulda crosstalk affirmative action appointee Juan Williams.
In twenty-five years Rush has been laying it down straight.
My line gave at Little Anna Virginia May 25, 1864.
Liberals let the Jeremiah Wright president burn and loot in the spirit of Malik's Mau Mau he displayed in Kenya in 2006.
Yes, like “hands up don’t shoot”
Dictators (even petty-dictators) don't discuss.
Dictators dictate.
Good post Phil. As the first [half] Black President, Obama could have helped ‘his’ people in so many good ways. Instead, he, his racist wife, and his administration have done nothing but intensify anger and hate.
It was shameful of Michelle to give such an angry, downer of a speech to Graduates, when she should have been ‘uplifting’ and encouraging them to go out and make a good life for themselves!!
Don’t forget making all the minority children unwelcome!
Around the time of Ferguson conservatives quit being afraid to talk about race.
The left crossed the line with that city - it was too much when they tried to hide the video of the thug roughing up the small shop owner... Then the lies started - lies so transparent only a fool or a reporter from the New York Times would believe them... and our fears ended.
We were free... free at last.
If the left wants to talk about race they need to sit down and listen for once... because there ARE many sides to this story - and they've only heard the black side.
Around the time of Ferguson conservatives quit being afraid to talk about race.
The left crossed the line with that city - it was too much when they tried to hide the video of the thug roughing up the small shop owner... Then the lies started - lies so transparent only a fool or a reporter from the New York Times would believe them... and our fears ended.
We were free... free at last.
If the left wants to talk about race they need to sit down and listen for once... because there ARE many sides to this story - and they've only heard the black side.
Oh - and thanks Rush - you showed courage early - as always... leading the way.
Splendid post, Phil!
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