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"What we got from Obama on this Gates
thing on Wednesday night was not a
presidential reaction. We got the reaction
of a community agitator."
Click on the pic for the VIDEO and transcript of Part 1.
"It's too soon to say Obama's in trouble, but this is not where they thought
they were going to be, and it's safe to say that the magic of the Obama
cult-like personality is not enough to get him over the hump now."
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OBAMA: -- continue to believe, based on what I have heard, that there was an overreaction in pulling Professor Gates out of his home to the station. I also continue to believe, based on what I heard, that Professor Gates probably overreacted as well.
RUSH: Throw him under the bus, I told you, I told you!
OBAMA: My sense is you've got two good people in a circumstance --
RUSH: Threw him under the bus!
OBAMA: -- in which neither of them were able to resolve the incident in the way that it should have been resolved and the way they would have liked it to be resolved.
RUSH: Skip's gone. Skip's been thrown overboard.
OBAMA: The fact this has garnered so much attention I think is a testimony to the fact that these are issues that are still very sensitive here in America.
RUSH: Throw the race card again.
OBAMA: And, you know, so to the extent that my choice of words didn't illuminate, but rather contributed to more media frenzy, I think that was unfortunate.
RUSH: No teleprompter.
OBAMA: What I would like to do, then, is make sure that everybody steps back for a moment, recognize that these are two decent people, not extrapolate too much from the facts, but, as I said at the press conference --
RUSH: What?
OBAMA: -- be mindful of the fact that because of our history, because of the difficulties of the past, African-Americans are sensitive to these issues.
RUSH: Don't extrapolate from the facts?
OBAMA: And even when you've got a police officer who has a fine track record on racial sensitivity --
RUSH: But still stupid.
OBAMA: -- interactions between police officers and the African-American community can sometimes be fraught with misunderstanding.
RUSH: Oh. Not here. Not in this case.
OBAMA: My hope is that as a consequence of this event --
RUSH: Yes?
OBAMA: -- this ends up being what's called a teachable moment, where all of us, instead of pumping up the volume, spend a little more time listening to each other and try to focus on how we can generally improve relations between police officers in minority communities and instead of flinging accusations we can be a little bit more reflective in terms of what we can do --
RUSH: You engaged the accusations!
OBAMA: -- more unity. Lord knows we need it right now --
RUSH: You engaged --
OBAMA: -- because over the last two days, as we've discussed this issue, I don't know if you've noticed but nobody's been paying much attention to health care.
RUSH: Not true. Not true, dude.
RUSH: Ah, ah, ah, we have been talking about health care. You can't say that about us, old Barack buddy.
OBAMA: -- but I just wanted to emphasize that --
RUSH: No teleprompter here, by the way. Diarrhea of the mouth time.
OBAMA: -- that as president, I shouldn't have stepped into this at all because it's a local issue, I have to tell you that that thing -- that part of it I disagree with. The fact that this has become such a big issue --
RUSH: He's a community organizer. He can't step away from defining issue here.
OBAMA: -- race is still a troubling aspect of our society --
RUSH: He's trying to turn down the volume? (laughing)
OBAMA: -- I were black or a white, I think that me commenting on this and hopefully contributing to constructive as opposed to --
RUSH: Obviously polls plunged, baby, that's why this is happening.
OBAMA: -- part of my portfolio.
RUSH: Your five-minute career, yeah.
OBAMA: At the end of the conversation, there was a discussion about my conversation with Sergeant Crowley, there was a discussion about he and I and Professor Gates having a beer here in the White House. We don't know if that's scheduled yet, but we may put that together. He also did say he wanted to find out if there was a way of getting the press off his lawn. I informed him that I can't get the press off my lawn. He pointed out --
RUSH: Can't get involved. That's a local issue. I can't get the media away from you, Skip.
OBAMA: -- to the Boston press as well as national press, Sergeant Crowley would be happy for you to stop trampling his grass, all right? Thank you, guys.
RUSH: Okay, here you go, President Barack Nifong trying to turn down the volume on this incident. He threw Skip Gates under the bus. I hope you were listening at the beginning of the program. If you weren't I'll simply recap. We will know when the heat is too much to bear. We will know when the focus groups are screaming bloody murder, because he will throw Skip Gates under the bus just like he threw Reverend Wright under the bus and just like he threw his white grandmother under the bus. Today it happened. He threw Gates under the bus. And, by the way, we're braver now, Holder, we're talking about race. I'm going to continue to talk about race here because I want to impress Holder. The concept of a beer in the White House between Sergeant Crowley and Skip Gates and President Nifong, is there some prejudice here that the cops in Massachusetts drink beer? Where's the Kobe beef that other people get when they go to the White House?
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| • AP: Holder: US a Nation of Cowards on Racial Matters • AP: Obama Calls White Policeman Who Arrested Scholar |
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RUSH: This cop that has been criticized by Obama is a police academy expert on racial profiling. Now, Obama's pulled back from the racial profiling. What we got from Obama at his presser on Wednesday night was not a presidential reaction. We got the reaction of a community agitator. We got the reaction of a community organizer. We got the reaction of an ACORN leader, and everybody asking, "Is the president going to apologize?" ACORN members don't apologize for what they do. ACORN doesn't apologize, and the president was ACORN answering this question. He was not presidential. Cambridge police Sergeant James Crowley has taught a class on racial profiling for five years at the Lowell Police Academy. Academy director Thomas Fleming says that sergeant James Crowley is a good role model who was handpicked for the job by former police Commissioner Ronny Watson, who is black, to run the profiling training program.
In the class, Crowley teaches officers not to single people out based on their ethnic backgrounds. Obama has said the Cambridge officers acted stupidly. He has backed that up even though Gibbs said he didn't say it. A lot more has been learned about this, and one of the things to learn here is about that which happens right before your eyes rather than that which is spun by sharp political operatives and cooperating journalists. Take Obama's reaction to the Gates incident, his instinctive reaction. One event, three learning experiences.
Lesson one. Obama's instincts are those of a community organizer, not a president. Don't bother me with the facts; I have to play to the crowd here.
Lesson two: Obama can sound as if he knows what he's talking about even when by his own admission he doesn't know what he's talking about. It's not what he says; it's how he says it.
Lesson three: When Obama is faced with a political setback, even one of his own makings, he plays the race card. This is something I have figured out watching ever since the campaign began. Anybody who wonders what Obama accomplished with that statement had better realize it reduced the focus on his failure before the August recess demand.
Now, I don't know that he was purposely trying to do that. I think he's genuinely revved up about race. You know me. I think he is genuinely angry in his heart and has been his whole life. And if any of you have learned that Obama cannot, will not ever acknowledge his mistakes, shame on you. In his world, he doesn't make mistakes. Cap and trade is not a mistake; stimulus wasn't a mistake. The health care is not a mistake. And I want to take you back. No, Bill Clinton said Obama played the race card on him during the campaign in South Carolina, and Bill Clinton was right. Bill Clinton said, (imitating Clinton) "Yeah, he played the race card on me. Here I am, the first black president, and that guy, son of a gun's out there and he played the race card on me." They don't like it. You know, Boxer doesn't like it when blacks get uppity and don't follow along, and Clinton didn't like it when he had the race card played against him. This is Obama's secret weapon. I want to take you back to this program and me February 22, 2008. This is months before the election.
RUSH ARCHIVE: "If Obama gets elected president, wouldn't it be good to just get it done, Rush, then we could end the civil rights squabbles that we're having." It wouldn't do that. Folks, it wouldn't do that. It might even exacerbate them. Let me explain how. It takes somebody like me who can read the stitches on the fastball. Let us fast forward to January of 2009. Obama has been inaugurated president and he proposes his first bit of legislation. And let's say that it's -- I don't know -- some civil rights oriented thing and a bunch people start howling. You know that the race industry can't wait for this. Any criticism of Obama, the first black president, is going to be met with charges of racism by the likes of the Reverend Jackson and Sharpton. It will make their race business all that much more prominent. It will operate on the premise that half of this country is seething, can't believe this has happened and they're going to fix this somehow, cannot believe there's a black man in the White House and a black woman in the residence! That will be the theme that the race business operates on. It will be full of presumptuousness and projection, but it will propel --
RUSH: So I was wrong about the incident. I was wrong about the incident, but I was right that the race problem is not going to go away simply because we've elected the first black president. It's been exacerbated. Obama still smokes cigarettes and he's just thrown a lighted cigarette on a can of gasoline. And he did that at his press conference the other night and he's got this thing now -- here's the important political significance of the event. And at this point I will talk about the precious moderates who vote and the precious independents who vote. Trust me when I tell you that all during the campaign these precious moderates and independents believed that we were genuinely getting over the racial hump. Post-racial, so many, so many guilty people voted for Obama just to get that legacy of sin due to slavery out of our system to be done with it. They thought the election of a black president would accomplish this.
All of a sudden this guy that they elected who they thought was all of these wonderful, perfect things, is now behaving as a community organizer and is fanning the flames of race and is calling the police stupid, and I guarantee you those people -- we've all been waiting and asking the question, "When are these Obama voters going to wake up?" Well, this incident might be -- I don't know yet, a little early to say -- this incident might be the wake-up call for some of these moderates 'cause folks, don't doubt me. You know that there were a lot of people that voted for Obama out of pure guilt, hoping that his election would just wipe the slate clean, at least make them feel better about it. And this just destroys that. Here you have a black president trying to destroy a white policeman when he doesn't know the facts of the case, admits he doesn't know the facts of the case.
There's a big police coalition press conference going on right now, and the police union, fed up, police officers, Fraternal Order of Police all over the country, they recognize the damage and the danger this puts them in when the president of the United States runs around and calls them stupid for just doing their jobs. It's bad enough for the cops in this country as it is. This just exacerbates it.
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RUSH: Ann Althouse has a very interesting blog post on this whole situation with Sergeant Crowley and Henry Louis Gates. She says the article -- talking about the New York Times article about all this -- she said, "The article starts out with genuinely sympathetic stories about another black man who was arrested twice, then ties it to the Gates story. '[B]lacks and others said that what happened to Professor Gates was a common, if unacknowledged, reality for many people of color.' ... But that's not my question about this article. I have a question about this: 'The police and Professor Gates offered differing accounts of what happened after officers arrived. The police said Professor Gates initially refused to show identification and repeatedly shouted at officers.
"Professor Gates said that he had shown photo identification to Sergeant Crowley but that the sergeant had not appeared to believe that he lived there.' There's a crucial, missing fact that the journalists, Susan Saulny and Robbie Brown, don't seem to have any interest in." What Ann Althouse writes she'd like to know is this: "is whether Gates' photo ID had the address of the house on it. Was it his University ID? My UW ID doesn't have my home address on it. I have read elsewhere, not in this article, that Gates rented the house. Perhaps he had a driver's license with a different address of his on it. If the ID did not show the address of the house that had been broken into, then Crowley's continuing investigation into whether Gates really lived there was perfectly reasonable. (Or do you -- did Gates? -- think that affiliation with Harvard University should end the matter?)
"Moreover, Gates's belligerence and presentation of himself as a person too important to be questioned should have heightened Crowley's suspicion that Gates didn't live there." This next point, this is key. I try to put myself in the situation here. If I get caught, quote, unquote, "breaking into my own house" because somebody down the street's called it in and a cop shows up, and it's my house, I'm going to do everything I can right there to prove it! I am not... You know, I know everybody has a different temperament and personality. But I remember being with my father when I'm ten years old and my brother and parents were all in the car. We were driving back home from someplace in Arkansas and it was at night and we got pulled over by state trooper.
And I remember the way my dad dealt with the guy. He just sirred the trooper out: "Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir." He didn't argue, was not belligerent. He was totally cooperative. And whenever I've had any encounters like that, and there have been few, but, you know, I just don't start yelling at people. It just doesn't occur to me. It's not in my makeup, especially if everything's okay. I'm going to do what I can to prove everything's okay and end the situation. Let the cops get on their way and let me get back in my house or whatever. This business of Gates continuing to yell as though he had some special privilege because maybe he's a teacher at Harvard or whatever? This whole thing is just... Especially when you learn that the cop is trained in racial profiling. None of this makes a whole lot of sense.
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RUSH: I know that the way I look at something like this and the reason something like this might not make sense to me, is not a universal mind-set in the country. I know that there are people in this country who think that just because of their skin color that the cops are out to get 'em. I'm not denying that. I'm just talking about the way it's dealt with. This kind of belligerence -- and Ann Althouse makes a great point. Did this guy actually prove that he lived there? Journalists haven't figured it out, and I'm also told that when all the brouhaha began the cop keyed his microphone and they have recordings of the incident. The cop turned on his microphone so everybody could hear what was going on, and they're debating whether or not to release this. There's no information about the words that were said.
I'm just talking about the mind-set. If somebody comes into your house thinking you've broken into it, you find ways to prove it and thank them for coming and get on the way. Now, I understand. Does Mr. Gates have a personal life history of the cops harassing him? Does he have an arrest record? Has he been falsely accused of things before? I don't know. Is his life experience something that would explain his belligerence? Has he been falsely accused a number of times and he just broke and wigged out? I don't know. All I know is that the way this kind of thing has been dealt with, the way Gates dealt with this is typical in many ways. And the aftermath is typical now.
Call the cop a racist, call police racists, call the cops stupid, threaten to sue the cop -- and cop's now threatening to countersue for defamation and so forth. All the talk on TV now about race. I guarantee you -- I guarantee you, folks -- that the moderates and independents that voted for Obama thought this was all over. That that's what his election would mean. And he's the guy that started this. You realize this would not be nearly the story it is had he not taken that question, had he not answered it the way he did? This is his story, and he wants it. He could end this story. But ACORN doesn't apologize. Community agitators don't apologize. I told you yesterday, this incident is lighting a flame. It's not really throwing it on the gasoline yet, but the flame's been lit, and it's a dangerous situation, and it's most unfortunate.
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RUSH: we've got some sound bites on this before we get to your phone calls. This is Obama last night on Nightline with Terry Moran. Moran says, "You were tough on the Cambridge Police Department. Do you regret saying that they 'acted stupidly'?"
OBAMA (sped-up): I'm surprised by the controversy surrounding my statement, because I think it was, uh, uh a pretty straightforward commentary that you probably don't need to handcuff a guy -- a middle-aged man who uses a cane -- who is in his own home. Now, what I do know is, as I said last night: I don't know all the details to the case. My suspicion is -- is that words were exchanged between the police officer and Mr. Gates and that everybody should have just settled down and cooler heads should have prevailed. That's my suspicion. But I was asked, you know, did it make sense for it to escalate to the levels that it did (sic), and I said probably not and that uhhh, you know, it would have been more sensible for everybody to just, once it was established that Mr. Gates was in his own home, that, uhhh, we should just settle this thing down.
RUSH: Was he asked...? He wasn't asked if it "made sense for it to escalate." Lynn Sweet didn't ask him that. You know, there's a character in recent news history that we could compare President Obama to. Does the name Nifong ring a bell? Mike Nifong. The prosecutor in the Duke rape case. This is the same kind of situation: Prejudging, without the facts, based on stereotypes, based on race, based on bias. The president of the United States may as well be Mike Nifong, folks. That's the best way to understand the way this whole thing is shaping out. Moran says, "You think the Cambridge police 'acted stupidly'?"
OBAMA (sped-up): Terry, I think this is a classic example at a time when we're struggling about health care, energy, we've got two wars going on, uh, that, um, issues like this get elevated in ways that probably don't make much sense. I -- I think that it doesn't make sense, with all the problems that we have out there, uh, to arrest a guy in his own home if he's not causing a serious disturbance. It would have been better for cooler heads to prevail.
RUSH: Well, yeah, you know what? All of a sudden now all those things matter? You know, he did a big fundraiser in Chicago last night with a bunch of athletes and at the fundraiser -- there were about 150 people there -- he started whining and moaning about people who oppose his health care plans he's having a lot of trouble dealing with people lying about his plan and he doesn't even know what it is and doesn't care about it. By the way, a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox whose name I don't know how to pronounce, Mark Buehrle, threw a perfect game. Obama called the guy after the game. Obama said, "You know what, I think some of the credit..." Remember, nothing's about him. (interruption)
It's "burr-lee," okay. Buehrle pitches the perfect game for the White Sox, one of the rarest things to happen in professional sports. Obama calls the guy and says, essentially, "You know what? I think the fact I wore a White Sox jacket throwing the first pitch out at the All-Star Game may be a factor here in your throwing a perfect game." He actually said something like that to the guy! It's not about him. He did. He took credit, partial credit for the perfect game because he wore a White Sox jacket throwing out the first pitch -- the girlie pitch, ceremonial first pitch -- at the All-Star Game. Here's Sergeant Crowley on Channel 7 in Boston telling his side of the story.
CROWLEY: I asked him if he could step outside and speak with me and he said, "No, I will not," and again words to the effect, "What's this all about?" And I said, "I'm Sergeant Crowley from the Cambridge Police Department, and I'm investigating a break-in in progress." And he responded, "Why, because I'm a black man in America?" in very agitated tone and, again, I thought that was a little strange. My reason for asking that is twofold. First of all, there was a report that there was two individuals. I see one and it could be him, so where's the second person? Or there's two people in the residence that he doesn't know are there. Either way, I wasn't expecting his response, which was, "That's none of your business." To me that's a strange response for somebody that has nothing to hide, is trying to cooperate with the police.
RUSH: And Crowley continued. He explained the details of the arrest.
CROWLEY: I was leaving. As I reached the porch, I was aware that now he was following me because he was still yelling about racism and black men in America and that he wasn't somebody to be messing with. He was the one that was being provocative. This wasn't a back-and-forth exchange of banter or arguing. This was one-sided. That's how far Professor Gates pushed it and provoked and just wouldn't stop. I was a little surprised and disappointed that the president -- who didn't have all the facts by his own admission -- then weighed in on the events of that night and made a comment that, you know, really offended not just officers in the Cambridge Police Department but officers around the country. I'm not a monster or the bigot or racist that he has portrayed me to be. This is me.
RUSH: Exactly right. But not only that. Not only that, folks. What happened here, you know, Obama's sitting there saying, it "should not have escalated to the level that it did." Well, what happened here? Gates didn't get shot. He didn't get hit. He didn't get kicked. Gates didn't have hate speech hurled at him. Escalate to what? Who did the escalating? Gates did the escalating! Obama said, "That shouldn't have happened. The police acted stupidly." But nothing happened to Gates. He got arrested. But he wasn't treated in an abusive fashion. The cop was. He didn't get kicked. He didn't get hit. He didn't get shot. He didn't have any physical harm happen to him whatsoever -- and he was not cooperative it sounds like when you listen to all this. One more Crowley bite before we go to the break, and this is... Well, let's see. Da-da-da. I guess this is yesterday on the radio.
CROWLEY: What I did was right. I have nothing to apologize for. That somebody of his level of intelligence could stoop to such a level and berate me, accuse me being a racist or racial profiling and then speaking about my mother, it's just... It's beyond words. I treat everybody the same. I think, you know, that's what I try to do. That's what I have a track record of doing for the past 16-1/2 years as a police officer. Again, I think it's just regrettable that the situation has gotten to this point.
RUSH: Yeah. It's been elevated by two people: Gates and Barack Nifong.
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RUSH: I left something out of the pattern that I have learned watching and studying Obama. We will know when the heat gets too much to take, we will know when their internal polling on this is disastrous, because at that point he will throw Henry Louis Gates overboard, just as he threw his grandmother overboard, just as he threw Reverend Wright overboard, just as he did a Judas on Bill Ayers. "I don't know the guy. He lives in the neighborhood." Whenever the heat gets so hot, he'll throw these clowns overboard. He'll call Gates, "Look, I gotta throw you overboard, buddy, you know, I'll make it up to you somehow, but I gotta throw you overboard." And Gates will go out and say, "I understand the president has to be a politician." Just like Reverend Wright said, "Well, look, he had to throw me overboard, he's a politician, he can't be who he really is." That's exactly right, except he is being who he is, except you just need somebody to translate it for you. So look for sometime next week Henry Louis Gates, distinguished professor, African-American studies at Harvard, to be thrown overboard by the White House, by Obama.
All right, to the phones. Tom in Waynesboro, Virginia. Great to have you with us. You're up first on Open Line Friday. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Rush, when Obama spoke to the CIA a while ago, he pretty much told them explicitly that their job was going to become harder. Now, what he did last night, or what he did a few nights ago with the police officers in Cambridge was he made their job much harder. So why is he continuing to make our intelligence and law enforcement jobs harder?
RUSH: Why do you think?
CALLER: Why do I think?
RUSH: Well, it's Open Line Friday. I'm tired of being the answer man. You tell me.
CALLER: Okay, here we go. Basically I think that you have foundations in society that in order to upend it or overturn it, they have to be chopped out. And that's what I see happening. I see this is an opportunity for him to chop out the foundations and to create more wedges between people and groups, because, you know, Rush, he didn't just mention blacks. He mentioned blacks and Latinos in that press conference.
RUSH: No, no. Blacks and Latinos.
CALLER: Latinos.
RUSH: Latinos. Latinas.
CALLER: Lets get our pronunciation right.
RUSH: Latinos and Latinas. I think you're on to something. I think liberals in general have to destroy the institutions and traditions that made the country great and rebuild them. He resents what he's inherited. This is my whole point to Greta Van Susteren last night. He doesn't have admiration for this country. Put it on the table again. Do you ever hear him talk about the greatness of anything in this country? I guarantee you if you can think of him talking about the greatness of anything, it's something government's done. He doesn't talk about the greatness of our health care. He doesn't talk about the greatness of our military. He's apologizing for us all over the world. He doesn't talk about the greatness of anything. He doesn't talk about American exceptionalism at all. I think chaos is his friend. Chaos and uncertainty are exactly what a guy like Obama wants, getting the masses demanding more and more government action to stop the chaos, whatever it takes. So I think old Tom here from Waynesboro, Virginia, you gotta put yourself in his shoes. Here he is calling the world's foremost authority -- me -- he's got this theory, he wants to know what I think and what did I do? I turned it back on him, "You tell me what you think, I'm tired of being the answer man." And he stepped up. He was there. He had the answer. I love it. Way to go, Tom.
Here's Haya in Brooklyn. Hi, Haya, nice to have you on the program.
CALLER: Thank you so much, and I will say that "greatness" is an adjective that belongs to you and "chaos" to Obama, and I grew up in Boston, one of fourth generation going to Harvard, and I watched the decline of a great university whose symbol was truth and integrity, bring in people like Arthur Schlesinger and I took his course in modern American history in the 1950s, but he was extolling these socialist communes in the Berkshires, and degrading everything that was great about America. And this is why you now have a type of professor at Harvard who are socialist elites who consider themselves above the law.
RUSH: Yes. You know, I'm glad you said that. Because that's essentially the point she made without using those words, Ann Althouse, on her blog. This is somebody that acts like he's above the law: I'm at Harvard, I'm at Harvard, I'm a black guy at Harvard, I'm a black professor, who the hell are you to challenge me? It's all understandable. I appreciate the call, Haya. Thanks much.
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RUSH: Texarkana, Texas, Natalie, you're on Open Line Friday. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: Can you hear me?
RUSH: Yeah, I hear fine.
CALLER: Okay. I'm sorry. I'm calling on a cell phone so I know you hate that. I just want to talk about the Gates-Crowley situation. Every officer that responds to a situation has no idea if they're running into somebody with a weapon. They're putting their lives on the line. I don't know if the officer was married with children but he's got a mother, possible sister. He's got somebody depending on him.
RUSH: He's got three kids.
CALLER: Yeah, and our president has the audacity to stand up there and say that this man "acted stupidly," simply because he was responding to a call. And I'm just embarrassed about that. I'm embarrassed for the rest of the world to see that.
RUSH: You want to know at the root level what I think this is really all about?
CALLER: Sure.
RUSH: I'll be happy to tell you, then. The cop shows up at the home of the "distinguished, highly respected, big, frequent guest of Oprah," Henry Louis Gates.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm?
RUSH: And the cop didn't know who he was.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: Henry Louis Gates is thinking: How dare you not know who I am! I am the distinguished Henry Louis Gates Jr. I teach at Harvard! I am loved by Oprah. I'm a personal friend of the president, and you don't know who I am?
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: This is what he's thinking. "And this dumb cop doesn't know who I am? How dare you?" He didn't say this, I don't think. Maybe he did. "Do you know who you're dealing with?" I think the root of it is that this guy's got this out-of-control ego and thought the cop, upon seeing him, should have said, "Oh, sorry, Mr. Gates. We're just trying to police the neighborhood," and then the cop didn't know who he was. To these elites who think they're smarter than everybody else -- they're liberals at Harvard types -- that's a supreme insult. And then you throw the race aspect of it on top of that that Gates introduced. I mean, the cop didn't escalate this to anything. Gates single-handedly escalated it.
CALLER: Obama helped a lot.
RUSH: True. You're right. You're right. All right.
CALLER: If any local person -- red, white, blue, or yellow -- thinks that the officer thought he was responding to a white victim and that's the only reason he went in there gung-ho, then, you know... I mean, I don't know. They're delusional. He was responding to a crime victim. The man happened to be black. Someone also could have broken into his home and he didn't know they were there like he said earlier.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: And the guy should be thanking him.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Not -- not -- I mean, I'm just embarrassed at our president.
RUSH: I know, but see, that's not the attitude of the elites. The elites don't thank their lessors! Elites don't respond to their lessors. See, this is 180 degrees out of phase. That cop shoulda gotten down on both knees and apologized, once he saw the distinguished and respected Henry Louis Gates -- and that didn't happen. And of course then, "Well, it's 'cause the cops are racist," and Obama said the cop's stupid and this is how black men are treated, and so forth. I don't know, but, as I say Henry Louis Gates wasn't shot. He wasn't kicked. He wasn't hit. Nothing happened. He was arrested.
The charges were dropped, but he was not in any way harmed. Now he's running around complaining that he's got a mug shot and the mug shot is going to be all over. Well, join the club, pal! (laughing) You know, our local paper here... Do you ever go to the Palm Beach Post website? Well, you ought to one day. At the top of the website, before there's any news, before there are any pictures, just up there -- you know, with the top headline ban with the weather forecast and current conditions -- are two mug shots. The latest arrests at the Palm Beach County jail. And you can click on it and see the mug shots. It's everybody. I mean, before Obama's through, folks, we're all going to have a mug shot one way or the other.
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RUSH: On State-Run Media this afternoon, after the press conference held by Cambridge police officials who demanded an apology from Barack Nifong regarding the incident with Henry Louis Gates, CNN anchor Tony Harris called the police union conference "incendiary." This is exactly... I knew it. I was so hoping this wasn't going to happen, but the flame has been lit. We don't know what's going to be torched here. I want you to listen to two sound bites from the press conference that was "incendiary" according to CNN. Up first, Steve Killian who is the president of the Cambridge Police Officers Association.
KILLIAN: Cambridge police are not stupid. I'm proud to represent the officers of the Cambridge Police Department. It is a great department. As far as the president's comments, the governor's comments -- and comments that I did not hear that our mayor made -- I think when the time is right, they should make an apology to us. I think the president should make an apology to all law enforcement personnel throughout the entire country that took offense to this.
RUSH: Up next, the Cambridge police union's Alan McDonald added this.
MCDONALD: First of all, he began his comments by saying he had a personal bias and that he didn't have all of the facts. The next sentence should have been, "So I'm not going to say anything." Unfortunately, he proceeded to say some things. He said that the Cambridge police "acted stupidly" in taking the actions they did. Second and more important, the president suggested that somehow, at least implied there was a link between what happened here and the history of problems between persons of color and law enforcement. And while that well is true in some localities, it isn't true in Cambridge. It wasn't true in this case.
RUSH: Exactly! Cambridge is an idyllic liberal setting. These cops probably voted for Obama. But nevertheless, CNN anchor Tony Harris called those comments "incendiary."
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RUSH: So when Gibbs, the White House press secretary, comes out and says, "Well, of course those cops up in Cambridge want the president to apologize. I think the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed McCain." You know what? That's the same thing as saying, "Of course, those cops are white." That's what Gibbs is saying. I'll tell you, we are finding out who they are. This White House now knows it is in trouble. The standard operating procedure for Obama whenever he has been in trouble is: Throw the race card. He's doubling down on it now. He started this. He started this, and I'm convinced he did it purposefully. At his press conference on Wednesday night saying the police acted stupidly, refuse -- and he also said that it was ridiculous to arrest a middle-aged man.
Ridiculous to arrest a middle-aged man? How old was the guy who killed the people at the Holocaust museum? Close to 80, right? Would it have been ridiculous to arrest that kook because he's close to 80 years old? This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. This guy, it doesn't matter to him. Whatever he says is right. He doesn't have to know what he's talking about. "Of course the cops endorsed McCain. Of course the cops don't like Obama." Oh, let's turn this into something political now, and let's make it not just political; let's make it racial. I predicted this. I hate to say it. I predicted this. Not this specific incident but I knew that far from erasing a racist pass, far from eliminating or even watering it down, this election was going to end up exacerbating it -- and here it is. We've got a fire that started now, and the match was lit by President Obama.
Well, we got the match lit. The Justice Department is still tracking down criminals from civil rights era crimes who are elderly, and when they can they arrest them and then they handcuff them. The Justice Department is still doing that, civil rights era criminals -- who were adults in the fifties and sixties -- and when they find 'em, they arrest 'em. "Baaaaah, Henry Louis Gates, he shouldn't be arrested. He's a middle-aged man!" So I guess in Obama's way of thinking, these cops are just typical white people, right? His grandmother was a typical white woman. Remember when he threw her under the bus? Remember? "It's just like my grandmother. I love her to death but she's a typical white woman." Well, when Gibbs comes out here and says, "Of course of course of course the cops endorsed McCain." Oh, yeah, typical white cops! Typical white cops!
We're looking at a replay of the Duke lacrosse case here, folks, with Barack Nifong in charge. And this is from, let's see... Well, it's a blog, NewsRealBlog.com. "The brief arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates earlier this week ... continue[ed] to provide fodder for cable talk shows and their seemingly shared Rolodex of reliably race-baiting guests. University of Pennsylvania professor and noted 'gangsta rap' expert Michael Eric Dyson has proven to be particularly popular with show bookers, and he presumably hasn't disappointed them yet. During his Monday appearance on CNN's Situation Room, host Wolf Blizter didn't challenge Dyson while 'he played precisely the song one would expect of him: [declaring that] America is a fundamentally racist nation and Gates was an innocent victim of racial profiling.' Then last night," on MSNBC, Dyson "referred to Gates as 'the Rosa Parks of racial profiling.'"
And of course CNN anchor Tony Harris, after a press conference by police union organizations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, today said this.
HARRIS: Here's my point. This is incendiary.
MAN: Yeah!
HARRIS: Race in this country --
MAN: Yep.
HARRIS: -- is -- iiis powerfully incendiary.
RUSH: So Tony Harris, I guess, is suggesting here that after Obama calls the Cambridge cop stupid. He said they "acted stupidly." They're just supposed to shut up. Their reputation is impugned. Their work ethic impugned. Hatred for cops gets ginned up all over the country by that comment and cops are just supposed to say, "Well, we know you're racist. Don't be incendiary. We're going to order him to stand down." So the cops demanding an apology and defending their officer who trains officers in racial profiling, they're supposed to stand down while this guy takes all the heat brought on by Obama. I'm telling you: Obama doesn't get criticized.
Obama doesn't get talked back to. Obama doesn't get laughed at. Obama... You've got a combination here of an ACORN community agitator and Barack Nifong working on this -- and now the media is getting guests claiming Gates is the modern equivalent of Rosa Parks in terms of racial profiling. And in the cop press conference in Massachusetts, they said, "There's no racial profiling." This is Cambridge. Do you know what that means? I don't even want to have to translate that.
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SNERDLEY: Thank you very much, Rush. Official Obama Criticizer Bo Snerdley here. I have a question.
RUSH: Wait, wait. You are "officially black enough to criticize," right?
SNERDLEY: "Officially black enough to criticize," right on, brother!
RUSH: Okay, good.
SNERDLEY: Um, Obama, what's up with this, yo? Here you got... First of all, everybody keeps saying the man was arrested in his house. Does anybody stop and actually read the newspaper, yo? Well, there's only one or two left out there. Um, it's not his house. The house belongs to Harvard! He's just chilling in it, yo. That's number one. Secondly, you got two brothers roll up on the house, right? Okay, put yourself in that situation, yo. You got two brothers roll up on the house, somebody calls the cops and says, "Yo, man, there's two people out there, man. I think they get in. You know, something's up over there." They go in the house, right? Okay? The boy should be like, "Yo, man, thanks, yo, for showing up. Everything is cool over here. Nobody else is in here. See you later. Out!" No. Now it blows up. But I got a question for you, Rush. Where's Colin Powell?
RUSH: That is a fascinating question. By the way, since you mention it, Colin Powell does come up as a discussion item in Part Two of my interview with Greta Van Susteren tonight. But that is an interesting question: Where is Colin Powell weighing in on this issue? I'd like you also, as the Official Obama Criticizer, to explain what the Cambridge police organization said; what they meant when they said that there's no racial profiling there; that they know that racial profiling happens elsewhere in the country, but it doesn't happen there. Why would you think that there's no racial profiling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Harvard is located?
SNERDLEY: This is Cambridge. Come on, man! What you think we're talking about? Queens, New York? Brooklyn? Kill-a-delphia? Detroit? SanFran, yo? This is Cambridge. We have the upper crust of the upper crust here! The black people in Cambridge aren't really like, you know...black like, you know, urban black. They're like super black! They're not like the other brothers. These are the... I'm going to quote the vice president: The clean ones, the smart ones, the articulate ones. So we don't profile the clean, articulate, smart brothers.
RUSH: As the vice president said.
SNERDLEY: As the vice president, Joe Biden, said.
RUSH: That's right. About Obama. About Obama.
SNERDLEY: About Obama.
RUSH: Exactly right.
SNERDLEY: Yeah, right. You know. That was before Joe Biden stopped over at that Indian deli 7-Eleven thing, but that was another story. So in Cambridge they don't profile black people because the black people there are like white people. Except they're black...kinda.
RUSH: Sort of like --
SNERDLEY: They're different.
RUSH: Except for the way they think.
SNERDLEY: They're "clean."
RUSH: (laughs) Um...
SNERDLEY: They're "articulate."
RUSH: I think that pretty much sums it up. All right.
SNERDLEY: They smile -- except for Louie Gates.
RUSH: Oh. Oh, yes, the professor. The distinguished Professor Gates: Louie. Well, I appreciate that. That's the Official Obama Criticizer, Bo Snerdley, answering the most pressing question of the day: Why is there no racial profiling in Cambridge? And how can this Eric Dyson clown claim that Louie is "the Rosa Parks of racial profiling" now? I'll tell you, it's the Duke lacrosse case all over. Barack Nifong is leading the charge.
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to offer a slight correction to something stated by the Official Obama Criticizer. The Official Obama Criticizer stated essentially there was no racial profiling in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There is. It's in the admissions policy at Harvard University, but not on the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The racial profiling that occurs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, does not involve the police. It involves the liberals that run Harvard University. We haven't seen any police testing. There hasn't been any case, say, brought before a judge like Sonia Sotomayor to see if cops face an unfair test in Cambridge, Mass., but that's probably coming. Also, it's not just the police in Cambridge who are asking Obama to apologize.
A press release yesterday: "Dr. Richard S. Kerr, M.D., a West Virginia Libertarian Party member and a retired doctor with 36 years experience, asked President Barack Obama Thursday to apologize for comments made in his Wednesday night press conference accusing doctors of conspiring to make children sicker for profits." So there's a lot of people that want Barack Nifong to apologize but he's not going to apologize because ACORN does not apologize. Law enforcement does not apologize. And you can say the cops are over here, but the number-one law enforcement officer in the country is Barack Nifong -- judge, jury, hanging judge, prosecutor, you name it. And he's in action in full gear.
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OBAMA: This is not about me. I'm the president of the United States. This is not about me. I'm the president of the United States. This is not about me. I'm the president of the United States. This is not about me. I'm the president of the United States. This is not about me. I'm the president of the United States.
RUSH: I mean we could loop it from now until the House votes on health care, but we won't.
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RUSH: Here's the story from the Chicago Sun-Times about President Obama congratulating Buehrle on pitch perfect game, Mark Buehrle in Chicago for the White Sox. Gibbs: "'The president congratulated him, said it was an unbelievable achievement, something that everyone will always remember. The president told him maybe it was because he wore the White Sox jacket at the All-Star Game.' Gibbs said Obama told Buehrle, 'As a fan, it's extraordinary. When you're a White Sox fan and know the guy who did it, it makes it even more fun.' Buehrle got a chance to say a quick hello to Obama last week at the All-Star Game in St. Louis, where the president raised eyebrows at Busch Stadium by delivering the ceremonial first pitch while wearing a White Sox jacket." He didn't raise eyebrows because he's wearing -- this thing says he raised eyebrows because he was wearing a White Sox jacket. That's not what raised eyebrows. The girlie toss is what raised the eyebrows. Buehrle said, ''He said he was taking a little bit of credit because he wore the White Sox jacket at the All-Star Game." It's not about him, though, folks. Not about him. Audio sound bite number one.
OBAMA: This is not about me. I'm the president of the United States. This is not about me. I'm the president of the United States. This is not about me. I'm the president of the United States. This is not about me. I'm the president of the United States. This is not about me. I'm the president of the United States.
RUSH: But, the guy who threw the perfect game in Chicago only did it 'cause Obama wore a White Sox jacket at the All-Star Game. This is not about him. It's also not about him, the story from the Chicago Sun-Times: "President Obama confided to his Chicago friends Thursday night just how frustrating it is having to fight what he considers false arguments against his proposed health care reform effort." There aren't any false arguments about it, folks. He's the one who really doesn't know the specifics. He speaks in generalities. He doesn't want to get into the details.
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"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday announced that the Senate would wait until after recess to bring the bill to a vote, and President Obama said it was 'OK' to miss his deadline so long as lawmakers are working in earnest to reach a compromise. Reid's announcement led some members of the House to wonder why Pelosi feels it's necessary to hold to a deadline that's already been broken. … 'We don't have a deal yet,' a senior Blue Dog source said. 'Negotiations continue,' said another. A third said no details of a pact have been worked out," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So they want this done, they want the House to vote on this because there's 435 of those people and most of them are Democrats and they want this voted on before these clowns go home. I know what's going on. These clowns are going to go home and they're going to get hell from their constituents, Republicans and Democrats alike, and Rahm wants them to get hell after they've already voted. If they get hell before they vote they're less inclined to vote for it and that's what's really going on. The Senate they don't care about, they'll get that done, they've got the magic of Ted Kennedy to get that done. The House is the big deal.
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CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. How are you?
RUSH: Fine and dandy, sir. Thank you.
CALLER: Great. I've been listening to you for about 17 years, and today's the first time I have attempted to call, and I got through.
RUSH: Congratulations. That's a major accomplishment. A lot of people have been trying for 20 years and haven't made it.
CALLER: Listen, while we're asking the president for apologies, I think the president should apologize to all those brave men and women he committed to the battlefields of Afghanistan. For him to suggest that victory isn't his objective, let me ask you this, does anybody doubt that the objective of every one of those brave warriors is victory? I mean this guy -- I can't even figure out where he comes from. It sounds as though he's afraid of achieving victory because then he'd have to apologize for that.
RUSH: I think you're right. I think there is a guilt that he has associated with US victory, US success. There is a guilt that it's somehow immoral and unjust because we have an unfair advantage going on in. But you are exactly right. If you're just tuning in, Barack Obama said that he doesn't like the word or the concept "victory" being tossed around when discussing things in Afghanistan because when he thinks victory, he thinks of Emperor Hirohito coming down from the mountains and signing a surrender agreement with MacArthur on the USS Missouri. I read that, I said, "What the hell?" But your perspective here, "Then what are these brave troops doing over there?"
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: He said all they're trying to do is prevent these people from attacking the US. But we're not. He said we can't achieve victory out there, Bill, because these people aren't even part of the country.
CALLER: Well, if this commander-in-chief is committed to anything short of victory, he should be impeached. When I read this I was so outraged, and thank God I have not lost anybody close to me in this war. But I could only think about the mothers, the fathers, the wives, the husbands, the children of these people we've lost, I can only imagine how they must feel when they hear the commander-in-chief say that, you know, victory really isn't the overarching concern in this. I mean, I can't believe this guy.
RUSH: Great point. Great point. Got a problem with victory. Then why have them there in the first place?
CALLER: Exactly. It's that or nothing should be the commitment because I guarantee you every one of those warriors is committed to victory.
RUSH: Every day Barack Fonda is telling us who he is. Every day. He's Barack Fonda and Barack Nifong in one day. He's telling us exactly who he is. Pretty soon he's going to be… well, he's Barack Marx every day.
CALLER: It's outrageous.
RUSH: But now he's adding, you know, last names, and no birth certificate so he can paint whatever name he wants, Barack Nifong, Barack Fonda, it's a great point. I hadn't thought about that, about the parents, family members of those soldiers that are over there. This mission they're on, it's a huge offensive we're on, huge firefights are taking place.
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: Well, look, Bill, I'm glad you called. It's an excellent perspective.
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CALLER: How you doing? I just wanted to talk to you. My comment, first off, I guess I'd like to say, is currently I don't have health insurance. With that being said, I have an $8,000 baby bill that comes to my house every other day saying I have to pay for it that I can't afford. With that said, I am still very strongly against the national health plan that is going on right now. Let me explain why. This is a power grab. This is about control. It's not about health care.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I lived in England for two-and-a-half years. Okay? And when I worked there, I saw a lot of things happen. One of the things -- there are many things, but one of the few things was ladders. If I took a ladder to the construction site the former would inform me that I couldn't use a ladder because it was against the law now, too many people falling off ladders, cost too much for the national health care. Fast food restaurants. You go to a fast food restaurant when I was there you get a decent portion. Government came out and said, too unhealthy, costing too much in our health care, we are now regulating --
RUSH: I know, that's exactly what's going to happen here. I've been predicting it. I'm struck by something you said at the beginning of the call. Every other day you get a bill for $8,000 for a baby?
CALLER: Yeah. Some bill, this bill, that bill, this bill, that bill.
RUSH: Is there a baby?
CALLER: Huh?
RUSH: Is there a baby?
CALLER: Yeah, there is a baby. Six weeks old.
RUSH: Six weeks old, $8,000 bill, every other day you get the bill for it?
CALLER: Well, much different -- well, I get a bill from the hospital, I get a bill from the doctor --
RUSH: Oh, oh, oh, I see, I see.
CALLER: -- from the anesthesiologist. One of the things I want to point out, Rush --
RUSH: I've run out of time. I shoulda taken your call earlier. I'm sorry. But I don't have the flexibility here as we get to the end of the program. I just hope they don't repossess the kid.
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RUSH: Audrey, 12 years old, Triple Falls, Wisconsin. How are you?
CALLER: Good. What? Am I on?
RUSH: You're on.
CALLER: Oh, I'm sorry. (giggles) Hi, Mr. Limbaugh. I just had a question that I asked my dad and he told me I should call you and ask you.
RUSH: Mmm-hmm.
CALLER: I was wondering why Obama doesn't lower taxes at a time like this instead of raising them?
RUSH: Well, I'm going to... Do you have your own answer, your own theory to this? Why you think he doesn't?
CALLER: Well, kind of but I'm not real sure. I don't know much about it yet. I'm only 12.
RUSH: Well, that's a good point. At age 12 what is it that has created your interest in the subject of taxes and whether Obama will cut them or not?
CALLER: Well, my family, they are big fans of yours. I mean, I've got over 200 people in my family, my close family and they're all big fans of yours and we always talk about it constantly. And I was just really, really curious to get the answer so I could talk with them about it.
RUSH: A-ha. Well, I'm going to tell you the answer. I'll do it as briefly and simply as I can.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: The Declaration of Independence has a phrase in it: "We are all endowed by our Creator," God, "with certain inalienable rights...liberty, pursuit of happiness." Now, those rights granted by God and assumed to exist in all human beings by our Founders present a problem and a threat to liberal Democrats like President Obama. The biggest problem President Obama has is the liberty and freedom of the people of this country. The freedom and liberty that the people in this country have is a large obstacle to him accomplishing what he wants, because what he wants is to expand our federal government and to have more control over people's freedom in this most recent debate health care.
He wants the government be the ultimate decider in who gets coverage and how much and who doesn't get coverage. So, tax cuts allow people who are working to keep more of what they produce. The more income, the more money your dad has -- the more money your family has after they pay taxes -- the freer you are to spend it on necessities and pleasurable things: Your pursuit of happiness and your liberty, and I'm sure your family wants to invest in your future with college education and so forth. The less money your dad has because taxes are taken out of it, the less freedom your dad and mom will have to raise you and provide for the family and so forth. And therefore, the less money that people have, the more dependent on other people providing services for them they become.
In this case, the government. President Obama wants more people like your father depending on him for whatever he has, not your father and mother depending on themselves. And of course he wants the same thing for you down the road when you grow up and start earning money. So it really... The best way to understand it is a freedom and liberty issue. It is an effort to deny your family and everybody else, liberty and freedom. It really is not about raising revenue for the government to run the government responsibly, Audrey, because if it were, he would be cutting taxes. Right now people are losing their jobs and not paying taxes at all. He's not bothered by that. He actually finds it helpful to his agenda. Now, I have to take a commercial break. Can you hang on for three minutes?
CALLER: Yep.
RUSH: Good, because I'm not quite finished.
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RUSH: It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, back to 12-year-old Audrey in Triple Falls, Wisconsin, who has a family of 200, all huge fans of me and this program. So Audrey, that's the short, simple answer that I think is the real reason Obama doesn't lower taxes. Do you have any questions about what I said?
CALLER: Nope. We covered all the Declaration stuff in fifth grade so I was really interested in what you said.
RUSH: You have been taught the Declaration since the fifth grade?
CALLER: Yep.
RUSH: Okay. Good. I'm happy to hear that's happening at least in one state. Did you understand the relationship between high taxes and the loss of liberty and freedom?
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: Okay. Well, I'm glad you called. I'm happy to have an opportunity to explain this to you because a lot of people don't look at taxes the way I do. They don't look at tax cuts the way I do because a lot of people have been led to believe that the more you make, the more you should pay. It's only fair, and the less you make, the less you should pay. And right now, 43% of people who work in this country pay no income tax. The top 1% of the wage earners pay 47% of all income taxes, and they're going to have their taxes raised even more to pay for Obama's health care plan and cap-and-tax plan and so forth and so on. What he's really trying to do here with his tax policy, Audrey, is what is called redistribute income. He wants to punish people who have worked hard and have achieved things. He wants to, with his tax increases, take more of what they have, destroy their wealth, and redistribute it to people for a host of reasons, chief among them is to keep getting their votes.
CALLER: I never thought about it that way. I don't think that's right. I'm sorry.
RUSH: It's not right. It is tragic. It is destructive. It will destroy people's desire to do well. It will destroy people's pursuit of the American dream. If the more you make, the more the government's going to take, why earn it? You know, why expend the effort and why work? Especially if you know that your money that you've earned is going to be given to people who, in large part, are not working. Audrey, this president is unlike any we've ever had in our country with his ideas, and there are many Americans who think that his plans have to be stopped if America is to be the same country you grow into that your parents grew up in. If you and people your age are to have the same opportunity that, say, I had or your parents had, then Obama's policies must be stopped.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: Much of what the opposition of President Obama is about is for people's children, like you. People don't want you to grow up saddled with debt that you can't repay before you've earned your first dollar and they don't want you to grow up with diminished opportunity to be whatever you want to be, to be the best you can be. There's a lot at stake here, and it's for you, and people your age and people that haven't even been born yet. And the tax policy, raising taxes, is just one of the steps in limiting the opportunity people have for prosperity and success and, of course, exercising their freedom. So it's a good question. I'm glad you called and asked me.
CALLER: Well, thank you for picking up.
RUSH: You bet. And tell your 200 family members I love 'em.
CALLER: Okay.
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RUSH: Back to the phones to Fort Worth, Texas. This is Fran. You're next. It's Open Line Friday. Hi.
CALLER: Well, hello, how are you? I'm so glad to be able to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you very much. Same here.
CALLER: I'm going to lodge a complaint because I would like for it to go around the world and most people listen to you. I'm a 66-year-old great-grandmother. I live the American dream. I'm so old I remember when California was a Republican state. I bought my house; I paid my taxes; I sent my kids to college. Now that I'm retired, I am looking at a health care bill that I believe somebody is going to be telling me what I can have. They're going to counsel me according to this bill every two years --
RUSH: Five years.
CALLER: Five years?
RUSH: Yeah. They're going to counsel you on preparing you to die.
CALLER: Right. Are they going to tell me it's patriotic for me to get off Social Security and off the health care system?
RUSH: Betsy McCaughey, who was largely instrumental in exposing all the details of Hillary's health care plan back in 1993 and '94, Betsy McCaughey has read in totality both of these bills, the House and Senate bill. She has a piece at the New York Post today that contains the following information. Rahm Emanuel has a brother. His name is Ezekiel. He's a doctor. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. He's already in charge of various health care administrations in the Obama administration. He is going to be a huge central figure in Obamacare should it become law. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel has written, and Betsy McCaughey quotes him -- I don't have it in front of me -- but he has written essentially that it is a waste of money to invest health care in the elderly, that those resources could be spent in our society elsewhere in a much better and more efficient way. What he plans on doing is expanding the hospice program, a nationwide federally run hospice program. Now, as someone who is 66 you probably know what hospice is.
CALLER: Oh, I know what hospice is. Rush, you know what I really believe? I believe they're trying to get rid of the old people so they can insure the illegal aliens for their voting base.
RUSH: Well, you know, we can guess what they're doing. I mean there are a number of theories. Let's just take your proposition and discuss it hypothetically. They want to get rid of the old people. It's fairly clear from looking at details in their plan that they are not going to provide lifesaving health care for people with certain diseases at a certain age because of cost. Now, from that can we project that they want old people to die? Well, let's hypothetically say, yeah, they want old people to die. Then, okay, why? Well, I can think of two reasons. A, it would free up a whole lot of money to spend buying votes elsewhere. Secondly, it would save a whole lot on Social Security. And if they are looking to save money to spend it elsewhere in society in cultivating younger people to become wards of the state, then it all makes sense. So now the question becomes, okay, we've discussed this hypothetically, and I guarantee you people listening to this radio show and you and me discussing, "This is not America, what do you mean, killing people?" This is Soylent Green, this is Logan's Run? What are we talking about here? People don't want to believe this.
CALLER: I do believe it.
RUSH: I did too, I totally believe it. It's in the bills. The motivation is what we're speculating about, but Obama himself said on national television, when asked a question about a healthy 100-year-old woman getting a pacemaker, he said, no, you know, really, give her a pain pill.
CALLER: Right. And who is Obama or anybody on this planet able to decide what my health care is going to be? That's insane. Not in this country.
RUSH: That's an excellent question. Let me ask you this. Who is Obama to decide what kind of car you drive?
CALLER: Oh, I would never buy a Chevy or --
RUSH: No, no.
CALLER: -- a Chrysler.
RUSH: I'm speaking about the constitutional role of the president. You're exactly right. He has no right, not only does he have no constitutional right, he has no business experience, he has no business period running everybody's health care or appointing others to do it. It's not in the job description. He doesn't have that power. He doesn't have constitutionally the power to fire private sector CEOs and take over their companies, but he's doing it all.
CALLER: All right, how do we stop him? That's my thing. I have been to the tea parties. I have written my -- of course I'm from Texas. So the Texans are saying no, but hell no. But what influence can I have to stop this?
RUSH: You keep doing what you're doing because it is working. In the midst of this health care debate, look at where the polls are. Fifty-three percent of the people now don't want it, don't want the House plan. Obama has lost a majority advantage in support of the health care plan. How did this happen? It didn't happen because the mainstream media is informing people about it. It happened because an alternative media made up of talk show hosts and bloggers and conservative magazines and authors are informing people about what's in the bill. And the people are stopping it. The people are showing up as constituents at town hall meetings giving their representatives hell, they're more informed than the representatives and senators, and it's working. The House still hasn't voted on this. Reports are that the Democrats are not unified listened this because they are constituents back home and not crazy about it. So you are having an impact.
CALLER: Well, Rush, I think you are having an impact.
RUSH: Well, we all are, but really what happens next is the election of 2010.
CALLER: Well, yeah, and if I have to go door-to-door saying don't vote for somebody that is for this junk, I will.
RUSH: Well --
CALLER: You know, old people -- now, I'm lucky, I can listen to you every day. I am informed. I know what's going on. A lot of people don't. And they listen to Obama, and he sounds perfectly reasonable if you don't know he's talking out of both sides of his mouth.
RUSH: Well, he proved in his press conference that even when he doesn't know what he talks about he sounds authoritative, it's not what he says, it's how he says it. But it's too soon to say this guy is in trouble. But this is not where they thought they were going to be and it's safe to say that the magic of the Obama cult-like personality is not enough now to get him over the hump on all these things that he wants to do legislatively. So even if the House doesn't vote on this, they're going to be back, folks. This is no time to get giddy. This is really no time to be celebratory. This is the exact wrong time to think this has been stopped, 'cause even if it is temporarily stopped, they'll come back another time for it. These people are relentless. It's a daily battle. The battle's going to go on long after you and I are dead. This is the nature of liberalism.
You know, I thought of something after I did the interview with Greta Van Susteren -- thanks for the call, Fran. I thought of something I shoulda said to her after the interview, because I was really rocking and rolling here on the fact that Obama loves this chaos, he's tried to destroy the United States economy, he's trying to destroy the institutions and traditions of this country, it's purposeful, and I acknowledged to her and her audience, this is something you just, as an American, you don't expect that this can happen here, so when somebody says it is they might be a kook or they might be wacko. No, I see Obama, he's a nice soft-spoken, very smart guy. Here the history of the world -- and this is another thing that makes this country so special and so unique and so extraordinary and so exceptional -- the history of the world is tyranny. The history of the world is dictatorship. The nature of people who have power is more and more and more. The nature of human beings in power is control.
Go throughout history, look at the world today, and count up the nations that are truly free. And we aren't as free as we used to be. But all over the world, totalitarian regimes rule. In China, in South America, Latin America and even in the industrialized western socialist democracies you still have socialism there. You still have people who have sacrificed their own freedom and liberty for what they think is a little security when they actually have none without us defending them. The history of human beings on this planet is murder, tyranny, dictatorship, dungeons, and prisons. That's not the history of this country. But there have been people throughout this nation's existence who have wanted to turn this country into a typical country in the world. And just because they're born here, and just because they're Americans, doesn't mean that they're any different from tyrants and dictators who have lived and ruled in other countries because that mind-set is as universal in human beings, regardless of nation boundaries, as it is for other people that demand and want freedom.
I'm a little long here so I've gotta take a commercial break, but it's not unusual that it would be happening here is my point. It's human nature. And we've now elected somebody who's oriented in that way of thinking. And he's got a bunch of buddies in Congress who are oriented that way, too. And it's right front of your eyes in their legislation. It's right there. The loss of your freedom, the subjugation of your life to theirs, the subordination of your interests to theirs. It's all there in what they're trying to do. It's all there in what they're saying.
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That was not one of Bo Snerdley’s best bits. The French judge gives him a 6.9.
He’s done better.
I agree.
BTW, what the hell goes on in NJ?
That's becoming a repetitive line lately.
I hope all is well with you.
What goes on in the DPRNJ is a socialist collectivist liberal nightmare. Everyone else here gets to wake up from the bad dream.
This place is a shithole. A liberal cesspool. Cheerful huh?
Have a nice day :-).
The kids birthday bash is tomorrow, gotta go to sleep. Good night my lady.
Have a great birthday blast with the kids!
Take care.
Catch up with you again soon. :-)
In 2008, Bryan Ferry announced his support for the Conservative Party, referring to himself as “conservative by nature”.
Thanks Gop_Lady.
Am looking forward to the
Rush Read after work today.
Take Care
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