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Limbaugh Blasts Obama's Reaction to Gates Arrest
Newsmax.com ^
| 7/23/09
| Newsmax.com
Posted on 07/23/2009 7:36:40 PM PDT by melt
Reacting to the escalating firestorm over President Barack Obama's comments calling a Massachusetts cop stupid for arresting his friend, the author Henry Louis Gates Jr., Rush Limbaugh blasted the president for mimicking the black supremacist thought of his longtime mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Rather than dodging the question and staying above the fray, Obama provoked a firestorm by calling a much-decorated beat cops actions stupid. In doing so, Limbaugh said, Obama fell back on the leftist teachers of Wright and early mentors during his years as a community organizer in Chicago.
I think what we learned last night, ladies and gentlemen, is that President Obama did, after all, listen to Reverend Wright all those 20 years, Limbaugh said on his show Thursday. He says, Yeah, I was a member of the church 20 years. I sat there and I didn't hear any of that. I think he heard it all. That question he got from Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, that's when he came alive. The rest of the press conference, he didn't even want to be there. He knew that they were in trouble, so he goes out there and tries to dazzle everybody with his professorial insight and capabilities and elegance and all that. But when that question about Henry Louis Gates and the arrest in his home came up, why, it was passion, excitement, animation, fire! He came alive. That question was, Mr. President, recently professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested at his home in Cambridge. What does that incident say to you, and what does it say about race relations in America?"
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: henrygates; mrskippy; obama; race; sonofabitch; talkradio; wright
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To: jla
Forgot one ... lawyer (and other loser jobs). ;-)
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:09:41 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(YO! You are also half white Â… recognize it, deal with it.)
To: goodnesswins
Everything in his press conferences are scripted, so one has to believe that the entire episode was orchestrated by Obama, Inc. as a smokescreen for the health failure.
It seems so divisive and it may be the temper tantrum that O is throwing because he didn't get his way on the health issue.
The “racist” epitaph is so overused that it has become like the f bomb....rendered meaningless because so many people thought it would automatically make them “cool” by using it.
One has to wonder if Emmanuel and Axlerod and Soros ever want to tell Obama to shut up. Were they part of this scheme? The whole episode is shady and demeaning to the office of the presidency. If one had any doubts that Obama would use his office to champion the minor skirmishes of his cronies, the answer is now obvious. He is a mean man in so many ways.
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:10:13 PM PDT
by
madinmadtown
(Nuclear...better to mispronounce it, than not understand it.)
To: doc1019
I take great comfort in knowing that Obama is alienating millions of white voters.
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:13:11 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: BunnySlippers
I take just as much comfort in knowing that he is alienating vast numbers of minorities. As a matter of fact, he is alienating everyone equally. Such and equal opportunity guy
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:21:51 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(YO! You are also half white Â… recognize it, deal with it.)
To: melt
Someone in Obama’s administration is going to have Rush assassinated. I cannot believe that bunch is going to let Rush continue to eviscerate them with the facts.
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:22:58 PM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: JudyinCanada
Limbaugh makes too much money and your all stupid for following him.
Oops. Sorry.I was getting drowsy and channeling a favorite humble commenter here.
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:24:54 PM PDT
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: buccaneer81
Gee, had forgotten that one
thanks for the reminder. ;-)
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:25:13 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(YO! You are also half white Â… recognize it, deal with it.)
To: doc1019
If Obama would just shut up and run the country...
UMMM If the madman would just shut up and GO AWAY. I don’t want him running anything!!! He’s running it into the ground.
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:31:39 PM PDT
by
Outlaw Woman
(The Light at the end of the Tunnel, is the Headlamp of an Oncoming Train)
To: doc1019
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:32:17 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: doc1019
Not intentionally..that’s the difference.
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:36:09 PM PDT
by
Outlaw Woman
(The Light at the end of the Tunnel, is the Headlamp of an Oncoming Train)
To: mylife
Damn! I had forgotten!...On again @ 1 AM (hour)
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:37:02 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Zer0 to the poor (foolish) voter: Welcome to MY DeathCARE ® You Sucker... Now Die! :^)
To: skinkinthegrass
Dude. I will be in the sack!
(No I dont have TIVO)
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:39:17 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: melt
Does Obama realize that this police officer tried to save the life of Celtics’ basketball star Reggie Lewis? Lewis was having a heart attack and the cop gave him CPR.
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:40:05 PM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
To: Carl LaFong
Gunner is just rattling yer cage.
It’s the way he is built.
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:43:27 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
He was also hand picked by the black police chief to teach how to avoid racial profiling at the academy, which he has done for over 5 years.
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:45:27 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:47:44 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: doc1019
You can’t be a leader or run the country when you don’t know how.
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:50:21 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: All
One thing is certain.
This Race thing is now overshadowing the crux of Obamas presser “National Health Care”
Let’s not take our eye off the ball.
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:51:13 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: goodnesswins
You know what we need to do here, don’t you?
We have to waterboard Lynn Sweet to admit she was told to ask that question. LOL!
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:51:41 PM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: mylife
Thanks for the link. I read his statements following the situation and he’s an all-around gentleman.
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posted on
07/23/2009 8:53:10 PM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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