Media Overjoyed: Genealogists Link Obama to the First Slave... But They Can't Prove It

RUSH: Oh, folks. Oh, my God. Oh, jeez, how did I forget. I meant to mention this in one of the top five stories. Do you know what? They are actually eating meat, they're so happy. They are celebrating. They found slave blood in Obama's genealogical trace. Oh, yes, they did, Mr. Snerdley. Yes, they did. But, but it's on his mother's side. White woman. It's not on the side of his father, Barack Hussein Obama! "Mmm! Mmm!" Sr.

The AP, folks, they are overjoyed. "A team of genealogists has found evidence that Barack Obama..." (panting) could be, it might be, it could be, it is, slave blood. That's right. The first recorded slave. Not just any old slave, but Obama's slave blood is traceable to the first slave, which, after Eve was created, was Adam. I kid. Here's the story.

"A team of genealogists has found evidence that President Barack Obama could be a descendent of an African slave -- but not through the lineage of his black father, the most likely route researchers had followed and exhausted." Oh, yeah, there has been an exhaustive search. They've been searching DNA, red blood cells, white blood cells, blue blood, red blood, white, they've been search everything. They've been tracing markers and guardrails, anything they could find, and they'd exhausted it all. "The link, genealogists with Ancestry.com said Monday --" yesterday, for those of you in Rio Linda, "-- is, in fact, through an examination of his white mother’s family history. 'We were surprised and excited to make that connection,' said Joseph Shumway, a member of the Utah-based Ancestry.com team.

"Obama’s father was from Kenya and his mother was from Kansas. It had been generally assumed that the president had no slave ancestors..." Remember, Democrats couldn't stop talking about this during the '08 campaign. It was all about whether Obama was authentic. Remember that? The real reason the Reverend Sharpton was not in the tank from the get-go was because Biden was out there talking about finally the Democrats had a clean, articulate black guy. And Sharpton said, well, I take showers, what do you mean? How come Obama's the first clean guy? So he wasn't on board. And then, folks, I'm not making it up, trying to be funny. I know it sounds funny. There was an ongoing debate of Obama's authenticity. You can't, in the Democrat Party, be an authentic black unless you have ancestral traces to the Deep South and slavery. 'Cause you're not down for the struggle otherwise.

If you don't have a provable, documentable genealogical trace to slavery, then you are not down for the struggle, and questions of -- (interruption) Well, yeah, you have to be marching, too. I mean that was qualifier number two, you had to march. But a lot of people marched that were not with slave blood. Well, Heston marched. James Garner marched. A lot of people who weren't alive then marched! Just listen to 'em tell you. By now, everybody, every white liberal marched. Every white liberal in Hollywood marched.

But, anyway, I'm getting distracted here. "Researchers couldn’t find it through the lineage of his father. However, no one had yet performed any exhaustive research into the lineage of his white mother, who turns out to have a mixed-raced family history. Ancestry.com now said the maternal line traces back to one of the first documented African slaves." Folks, it's not just slave blood. It goes back to slave number one. They find this in late July during the summer of Obama's reelection campaign. He's now authentic. They're breathlessly reporting all of this. However, folks, if you actually read the article that AP writes you'll see that the researchers say they cannot establish a definitive link because of gaps in the Punch family history.

RUSH: Let's go, speaking of slave blood, genealogy, genealogical traces. When you boil it all down, it's pathetic. Here you have AP breathlessly reporting that they finally found a trace, Obama to slave number one. My God, not just slave blood, but all the way back to slave one. And then later in this article they say you can't prove it. So why do the story? Why? What's the importance of the story? We know everything done is through the prism of helping Obama get reelected. How is he assisted in his reelection campaign by having it reported by the AP that he has slave blood?

Are there still people worried about whether or not he's an authentic African-American? Who are these people on the left so preoccupied with all of this surface stuff. It doesn't mean anything. Yesterday morning on CBS This Morning, senior White House correspondent Bill Plante reported about new information about Obama's family tree, and they had the Ancestry.com genealogist on there, Joseph Shumway. Listen to this report. It's from yesterday.

PLANTE: Barack Obama is related, however distantly, to people as diverse as Warren Buffett, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and George W. Bush. But now the researchers have discovered startling new evidence, a connection in his mother's family tree.

SHUMWAY: President Obama is the 11th great-grandson of John Punch, who was the first documented African to be enslaved for life in the American colonies.

PLANTE: The president's white mother is a direct descendant of the first known slave in the American colonies through a family by the name of Bunch. In 1640, John Punch, an African, was a servant in Virginia who escaped, was caught, and sentenced to remain in bondage to his master for life.

RUSH: But no, no, the story says that they have no proof. If you read the whole story, researchers say they can't establish a definitive link because of gaps in the Punch family history. Did you know that there was a slave one? I didn't either. I didn't know that I had slave blood. I, El Rushbo, your host, apparently a genealogical trace. Let them call me racist. Ha. Here's Bill Plante, continuing on the story. This is yesterday on the CBS This Morning show.

PLANTE: Punch with a P versus Bunch with a B. Researches say that's not unusual, that early record keepers wrote names as they sounded. Ancestry.com genealogists say the slave John Punch is the only likely person to have been the father of John Bunch. John Bunch's father was white, and so was his wife, which means that President Obama descends from the first known black-and-white couple who left traceable descendants.

RUSH: Yeah, but see, one of these characters named Punch, the other is named Bunch, and they're assuming it's the same family, that people just didn't pronounce it right when they showed up at the department of records, and said, "Hey, I'm here, I'm the first recorded slave, mark it down." There you have it. But somebody tell me, how does this help Obama? And with who? I'm serious. I want to know. Obviously AP thinks this is a big assist. I don't get it.

RUSH: Okay, folks, the only way of looking at this, based on the news today, is Obama's white half is more authentically black than his black half, according to Ancestry.com. Breathlessly reported by AP. Okay. Happy to have that settled, and more is coming straight ahead.

RUSH: Just a few more minutes on this groundbreaking, heart-stopping story on Obama now finally having lineage, although it can't be proven, so I don't even know why there's a story, but to the first black slave in this country, on his mother's side. This means, ladies and gentlemen, Obama's white half is more authentically black than his black half. Snerdley's in there saying, "Do you know what they're gonna do to you?" Yeah, I do. That's half the fun of this. (laughing) Oh, folks, they take this so seriously. Yet none of 'em can tell me why it's a big deal. You know what it has to be? In their world, the fact that Obama is the first black president but really isn't black because he's gotten down for the struggle, he doesn't have any slave blood, apparently that's been something eating at them. I mean the media, leftists, people on the left side, it's been bothering them.

The first black president with no ties to the struggle, that won't do. It's almost like you haven't really had the first black president. And now they're celebrating 'cause they found it, but they haven't, if you read the whole story. Now, I'm just bouncing off the story. Obama's white half is more authentically black than his black half. Now, Obama said that his grandmother was a typical white woman. Was his mother a typical white woman? Do typical white women have slave blood? And if so, does that make Obama a racist now because he insulted a white woman with traces to the original slave? This is the way they think. I'm just trying to relate to them.

Now, researchers are missing a record connecting this guy, Punch, to a presumed son who, by his early twenties, owned 450 acres and grew tobacco in Virginia. So they're missing a link between Punch and the son who is supposed to be the connection. So the whole story is a fairytale. They do not have the link, and yet they've run the story claiming that they do. In other words, the whole story that they're having a cow -- this story's two days old now. They're excited about this. The Associated Press is overjoyed. This whole story is based on a link from Punch to some son who might be an ancestor to the Dunhams, but they can't find a link between Punch and the son. It's totally laughable.

Now, I'm spending some time on this because it's a teachable moment. It shows us how much meaningless things count for them. It shows us that they live in a pretend fairyland, make-believe land. There is no link. The AP story admits there's missing data in the link. It doesn't matter, it's close enough, it counts. It's like, if you miss the putt by half-inch, it's close enough, it went in. Go ahead and count it. It's a teachable moment. They don't live in reality. They make it up. They massage it, they bend it, shape it, flake it, form it, to be what they want it to be. Anything. This whole thing is laughable. Punch's son would have been black. How many black men owned more than 450 acre tobacco plantations in Virginia in the seventeenth century? There would be records up the wazoo if such a black man had existed, and we don't have such records.

Now, can we get these researchers to look into Obama's college transcripts? Can we call upon Ancestry.com to see if they can find the transcripts at Occidental and Harvard and Columbia. And while they're at it, birth certificates. This may be the group to do it. There's a whole story written about how they did find a link, so desperate are they to have a story that Obama's traceable, isn't it laughable, not just slave blood, I mean, they claim he's got a traceable link back to slave number one. I thought the president's DNA was highly classified. Didn't that come up in the controversy over Monica Lewinsky's blue dress? How did these researchers get his DNA? AP doesn't tell us that.

Now, this AP story, we seem to know more about the first American slave than we know about the first American black president. Well, I'm just basing on what's being reported here. I'll tell you, if Obama were smart about now, he'd be finding some Jewish ancestors. Remember how Clinton did that? I mean, they live in a fake, make-believe world anyway. Why not go for the whole shebang here? After proving that you've got -- no, they haven't proven it. After asserting that you have lineage all the way back to slave number one, now let's get Moses taken care of. Let's get linkage all the way back to the Ten Commandments. Obama at the burning bush. Doesn't take much. You find out everything you know, and then imagine the rest, and go to AP, and you write the story.

It's all laughable anyway. It illustrates how these people, they run around and they call all of us racists. They're obsessed with skin color. They're obsessed with the symbolism of it. They are obsessed with things that have nothing to do with who a person really is. They don't care to find out who Obama really is. And if they were to find out who Obama really is, they don't care to tell us if it would not help his reelection effort. So they gotta focus on all this surface, meaningless stuff. Clarence Thomas has actual family members traceable to slavery. Clarence Thomas, actual family members who were slaves. Do you think the media is gonna write a story about it? Do you think the media will do a story about Clarence Thomas being authentically black? No. They don't dare. His politics are all wrong. He can't possibly be. All this is laughable anyway.

Obama's father was from Kenya. Kenya has been a center of the slave trade since the Middle Ages. Kenya continues to deal in slaves, even to this day. There's no doubt that Obama's descended from slaves and slave traders on his father's side. There's no doubt. His father's from Kenya. But they don't dare go there. They don't dare, because it's still alive and thriving.

They had to make a connection on Mom's side, since Dad was a foreigner. They feared what they might find digging on that side of the family. Even if this is true, I am not sure “I have black slave blood from my Mom's white family” is going to play in the ‘hood.

Punch? Bunch? Lunch? Do they claim Ronald McDonald as well? I mean, it could just be a hunch, but they all sound similar and apparently thats close enough...

For Bryan Sykes' new book, DNA USA, he collected genetic samples from many Americans of different racial backgrounds. Some of the people who thought they had 100% European ancestry turned out to have a small amount of African DNA. But it doesn't necessarily mean descent from someone who was a slave in America--it could be from an ancestor taken to Europe many centuries ago (there were black slaves in the Roman Empire and some of them ended up in Roman Britain and there black slaves brought to Europe in later periods as well).

The Quander family are descendants of the first KNOWN slave in Virginia (and that was when Virginia extended all the way to the Connecticut/Massachusetts state line (at that time still Acadian/Virginia line) down to what is now the North Carolina (then still Carolana) line.

Na Quan Do ~ something like that.

They are well known around the Northern Virginia area ~ and they have plenty of white, and black, and Indian, and every other thing ancestry JUST EXACTLY LIKE ALL the other old American families. In later times they got sorted out by black, white, etc.

Your more recent Fresh Off the Boat types don't have much of the old Creole in their backgrounds which is why so many of them end up voting for the Democrats.

They're most all recent arrivals ~ as these things are counted! Frankly I don't really know why we let them vote.

Ancestry.com isn't accurate, both sides of my family extended back before we were a country. My mother's family has maintained ties and know exactly how everyone is related to the others. My father and uncle hired a professional to trace back and make corrections.

I have gotten emails from people claiming to be a part of our families, because Ancestry.com claims to have a link.

No one real famous, but there is some notable people and I guess the claimant's are looking be associated.

Ancestry.com? Isn’t that owned by the Mormons?
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Simple answer is... no.

Ancestry is owned by the same company that owns Genealogy.com.

If Obama was unsure if Barack Sr. was his real father, it wouldn't be that hard to find out--he could contact that half-brother of his in Kenya, George Obama. If both are sons of Barack Sr., their Y chromosomes will match.

Back during the Clinton impeachment there were rumors that he was the father of a boy born to a black hooker in Little Rock. Clinton was apparently very careful not to let anyone get any of his precious bodily fluids to be able to run a paternity check (I recall when he visited a restaurant in England the Secret Service confiscated the glass he had drunk from). Monica was another matter but she wasn't likely to cooperate with anyone investigating Clinton. The Starr investigators supposedly found that Clinton was not the father of the black kid.

Barry might be “African-American” after all.

Maybe the BC issue is because Stanley Ann is his FATHER (ala Cartman’s mom though it turns out Cartman’s mom is actually his mom and not his dad)

So who is the mother? I’d say Helen Thomas but she was already passed menopause by the time of the first Cleveland administration.

Noted genealogist finds that 0bama is related to Rush Limbaugh!

Richmond Terrell 1624-ca 1680 &1643 Elizabeth Waters 1630..1635-
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William Terrell 1659-1743		Timothy Terrell ca 1658-1697..1700
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Anne Terrell 1687-1734		Robert Terrell 1697-1786
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Hannah Lewis 1722-1822		Mary Terrell ca 1728-1786/
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Susannah Hickman ca 1745-/1833		Rush Hudson ca 1745-ca 1819
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Annie Browning 1780-1820/		John Hudson ca 1770-ca 1850
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George Washington Overall 1820-1871		George W. Hudson ca 1792-ca 1870
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Susan C. Overall 1849-/1920		Elizabeth Hudson ca 1826-1904
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Gabriella Clark 1876-1966		Susan Frances Presnell 1852-1938
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Ruth Lucille Armour 1900-1926		Rush Hudson Limbaugh 1891-1995
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Stanley Armour Dunham 1918-1992		Rush Hudson Limbaugh 1918-1990
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