Posted on 06/05/2008 3:12:05 PM PDT by yoe
RUSH: Now, a couple thoughts here. I meant to get into this yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, and events just superseded my intent. But I had a bunch of stories, and I talked about it on the margins yesterday, all these Drive-By Media stories, there was one Washington Post story mentioning Obama is black four or five times. There were three or four other Drive-By Media publications focusing on Obama's race and how what a great step this is for the United States of America, we've passed a major milestone. It just is so wonderful and so forth. Interestingly, there's a story today from Reuters: "Black Americans savored Barack Obama's unprecedented victory in the Democratic race for U.S. president, but said on Wednesday the higher stakes raised the prospect of deep disappointment in November."
So Reuters has a story here on, "Wow, this is so wonderful, why, tonight we're on the inside, we have overcome the one obstacle in our face, racism, slavery, discrimination, and now, uh-oh, oh, no, what if we lose? Oh, no, we're going to be so disappointed if we lose." They actually do a story on this. I'm going to give you the details of this a little bit later as the program unfolds. But as I read all these stories, there's no question this is a major achievement. I'm not bemoaning it at all. But there's nothing really new here. I mean you gotta win the election, yeah, but what we have here is a pure, unadulterated, undiluted liberal! That's what matters to me. Not anybody's race! After you go through the emotional realization that, yeah, for the first time ever, we've got a pure, unadulterated, radical liberal that's been nominated by the Democrat Party. After a while you can see all the liberal white guilt throughout the Drive-By Media because they won't let the subject of Obama's race go. I mean they're making a huge fuss about this, being black, being African-American, biracial or whatever. But I have news for those of you in the Drive-Bys. If Obama wins the election, he would not be the first black president. And I'm not talking about Bill Clinton and the phony baloney first black president bit.
Thirteen years ago in 1995, Time Warner, Incorporated, inaugurated a black president, Dick Parsons. Eleven years ago, 1997, American Express inaugurated a black president, Ken Chenault. Seven years ago, Merrill Lynch inaugurated a black president, Stanley O'Neal. Now, three of our greatest corporations, what the left calls greedy corporations, formally ended racism by elevating an African-American to the presidency. Now, you may know this and you may not know it. But these were incredible events, too. They didn't get that much news coverage, it didn't fit the media template or the action line or the talking points of the left because the Drive-By Media is so hell-bent on trashing America, on dwelling in the past, on inflaming racial confrontations, on elevating racial entrepreneurs that they underreported the real state of race in America. My point here -- and I realize it might have offended you to say hey, he's not the first black president. I did that to get your attention. The point is that the real state of race in this country continues to be underreported. We continue to hear that we are no different now than we were in 1965 and in prior years. There's just as much discrimination, there's just as much racism, and incidentally, there's just as much sexism and we're not making any progress whatsoever, and that's why Obama's nomination is being hailed as some great point that has never been reached, and in fact it has.
Now, I understand the difference in a board of directors and a committee hiring somebody to be the CEO of a corporation and the votes of American citizens of a political party electing or nominating someone. I fully understand the difference. My primary point is that we have made so much progress in race relations in this country that people who are responsible for underreporting it or not reporting it, and the people who are responsible for continuing to try to keep this country roiled with racial strife are the very people who are now celebrating this wondrous event in the nomination of Obama, as though its only meaning is that he's black, and it's not its only meaning. He stands for things that are pretty bad. He's got some associations with people that are pretty questionable. All that's swept aside, all of that is ignored because of the momentous racial achievement.
I don't think we have, at least as it has been defined in the past, racism in this country. We have underclassism. We have broken-familism. We have single-momism. We have you're-a-victimism. We have the failure of the Great Society-ism. We have a bunch of isms that are genuine and real, but racism, said to be the root of all these, is not. If we were as racist as the left wants to portray us, there wouldn't be the phenomenon known as Oprah Winfrey; there wouldn't have been Bill Cosby. I could go on down the list. There wouldn't be Obama. There wouldn't have been Ken Chenault and American Express. There wouldn't have been Dick Parsons at Time Warner. There wouldn't have been Stanley O'Neal at Merrill Lynch, and there are countless other examples of this in smaller corporations. Herman Cain is one. And all of the truly achievement oriented black leaders who don't fit the liberal mold are ignored or they are impugned. You've heard the names, don't need to mention them. Clarence Thomas is one, Dr. Sowell himself, Walter Williams.
So while the media is trying to catch up with old news, first black president, and signals they're ready to acknowledge America's fairness, ask yourself, why do the Drive-Bys say they're in the news business when they're actually in the old news business? That's what they thrive on is the past, narratives, action lines, and templates from the past. Congratulations are due to Obama, there's no question, but not for being black, what an insult. Hey, congratulations, Obama, welcome to politics, the first black presidential nominee. What an insult. The reason you congratulate Barack Obama, he's a guy who took on and beat the pantsuit off the Clinton machine, even if he did crawl across the finish line.
“her selectiveness is mind boggling for an educated woman”
That statement summarizes why I believe she is not a Christian. If she were, she would be able to “see”.
I doubt Rush would be satisfied if a conservative became president of American Express, Merrill Lynch, or Time Warner (though that last would really be something!), so it's silly to think that those other firsts count as much as the Presidency.
Al Smith became President of the Empire State Inc. (which owned the skyscraper), but that title didn't mean as much to him or to his fellow Catholics as the "President of the United States" would have.
Maybe I'm just p.o.ed that this wasn't about Warren G. Harding. That's your real story, if it's true ...
“My point here — and I realize it might have offended you to say hey, he’s not the first black president. I did that to get your attention. The point is that the real state of race in this country continues to be underreported.”
Ping.
I'm not talking about Bill Clinton and the phony baloney first black president bit. Thirteen years ago in 1995, Time Warner, Incorporated, inaugurated a black president, Dick Parsons. Eleven years ago, 1997, American Express inaugurated a black president, Ken Chenault. Seven years ago, Merrill Lynch inaugurated a black president, Stanley O'Neal. Now, three of our greatest corporations, what the left calls greedy corporations, formally ended racism by elevating an African-American to the presidency... They didn't... fit the media template or the action line or the talking points of the left because the Drive-By Media is so hell-bent on trashing America, on dwelling in the past, on inflaming racial confrontations, on elevating racial entrepreneurs that they underreported the real state of race in America.
Wasn’t Jimmah Carter the first female president ?
Bump!
His dad was a member of the Luo tribe (ie BLACK), his mother is a white American (don't know which nationalities, but I would assume from the British Isles).
The second Communist; FDR was the first.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.