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RUSH: I want you to listen to Obama. This is how out of touch this man is. This is irresponsible what he said last night. He was on the PBS NewsHour<\/a>. It used to be with Jim Lehrer, and now it\u2019s with Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill, and Judy Woodruff says, “You have a reputation, Mr. President, for being pretty cool, detached.<\/p>\n

“But standing there at the Lincoln Memorial, at the place where Dr. King stood, looking out over that big crowd, that had to be emotional. What were you thinking?” I want you to listen to this. Here is the president of the United States on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the one of the greatest speeches ever at that place, and he\u2019s been asked what he wasn\u2019t thinking about as he stood there on that moment, at that moment on that occasion, looking out over that crowd. Listen to this.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Most of all what I was thinking about was just what I talked about in the speech. All these ordinary folks who did extraordinary things. There aren\u2019t that many examples in American history, maybe even world history, where you see maids and seamstresses and porters and laborers who are able to fundamentally transform the most powerful country on earth.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, folks, this is just so insulting to me. Those jobs that he described — maids, seamstresses, porters, and laborers — you know he\u2019s thinking about African-Americans, and what he\u2019s saying here is that all this exceptionalism out there hasn\u2019t come from these people \u2019cause they\u2019re discriminated against. He\u2019s saying, “I feel sorry for \u2019em. They\u2019ve never been able to fundamentally transform the most powerful country on earth, maids and porters.” <\/p>\n

This is so damned insulting, it\u2019s so unrealistic, it\u2019s so blind. <\/p>\n

Where does he think the great seamstresses of the day came from? <\/p>\n

For crying out loud!<\/p>\n

This is what I meant earlier. These people seem to think that the fry cook at McDonald\u2019s has reached the glass ceiling. The porter, the maids, hit the glass ceiling. “Ordinary people doing extraordinary things” defines this country. It happens multiple times every day — and the president of the United States, who ought to be trying to inspire that, sits there on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King\u2019s speech and basically tells people it isn\u2019t possible, so he has to take over and run things so those people are dealt with fairly. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the most insulting thing, it\u2019s a put-down, and it\u2019s abject ignorance about the country that he leads. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s just infuriating.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: That statement that Obama made about ordinary people doing extraordinary things, not too many maids, porters, seamstresses, or whatever the hell else that he talked about making it? Even if it were the case, I don\u2019t understand why you wouldn\u2019t want to be inspirational about it. Except I do understand. Obama doesn\u2019t believe it\u2019s possible in this country. That is the bottom line. You know, the fact of the matter is, before he was elected president, Barack Obama was an ordinary guy. <\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t do anything extraordinary. <\/p>\n

Zilch, zero, nada. <\/p>\n

In fact, Obama\u2019s extraordinary today, not because of anything he\u2019s done as president; it\u2019s because he\u2019s been a disaster. He\u2019s extraordinary in the mere fact that he became president. Few people do that. But what has made him extraordinary is his utter disaster of an administration. He rose from do-nothing state senator, to do-nothing US senator, to where he is now — and there are reasons for it. We all know what it is. I\u2019m not gonna get into it, but it is what it is. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mark in Bowling Green, Ohio. Great to have you, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush, for taking my call. I\u2019m a big fan. Hey, earlier you talked about what Obama was thinking about during the Martin Luther King anniversary. I just kind of wanted to offer a little bit different interpretative perspective. When he was talking about the butlers, the cooks, and the seamstresses fundamentally changing the world, I don\u2019t think it was about the work they were doing, like Martin Luther King during the best speech he gave which you talked about today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think he was talking about they fundamentally changed the world because they voted for him. It was all about him. Remember back in 2008 when he said, “We are based on fundamentally changing the world?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, well, he also said he was gonna fix all the problems that Bush left us with and he hasn\u2019t done that either.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let\u2019s go back and let\u2019s listen to the bite. That\u2019s an interesting egoistical interpretation you are assigning to our esteemed young president. So let us grab audio sound bite number 10. So as you listen to this, keep in mind here that Mark from Bowling Green, Ohio, happens to think Obama is talking about himself<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Most of all what I was thinking about was just what I talked about in the speech. All these ordinary folks who did extraordinary things. There aren\u2019t that many examples in American history, maybe even world history, where you see maids and seamstresses and porters and laborers who are able to fundamentally transform the most powerful country on earth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you think that he\u2019s talking about how those people are now able to because they voted for him?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, because I think any time he talks about “fundamentally changing the world,” it\u2019s always in the context of supporting him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No… Well, yeah. But, I mean, it\u2019s only he\u2019s gonna transform it. He\u2019s gonna transform America.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Well —<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So what you\u2019re saying here, he\u2019s looking out over all these people saying that their lives didn\u2019t amount to diddly-squat until they voted for him?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know I\u2019d go that far. But I would say Martin Luther King would say what they did as a cook, as a seamstress, anything like that had value in itself because they did it the best they could. What he was saying is, “What they were doing had value, but what they really did to fundamentally change the world was they voted for me.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow. If it\u2019s that, it\u2019s worse than I thought. If that is the explanation for this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Remember with Trayvon Martin he comes out and says, “That could have been me!” I mean, there\u2019s a million things you could say, but what does he bring it back to? He brings it back to himself.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s true. I remember these two guys from Newsweek on the night of Obama\u2019s election in 2008. They were analyzing Obama at Grant Park, and they said it was the first time a winning presidential candidate had gone out there and kicked his wife and kids off the stage. And then they said, “You know what? He\u2019s watching us watch him! He\u2019s up above us, and he\u2019s watching us watch him.” So you\u2019re saying that when Obama says, “There aren\u2019t that many examples in American history — maybe even world history — where you see maids, seamstresses, porters, and laborers who were able to fundamentally transform the most powerful country on earth,” you think that he is saying they are now able to because they voted for him?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Interesting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Just my thought.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He is The One. Interesting. You know, I really gotta stop \u2019cause if that\u2019s true this is a deeper, deeper case and problem than even I considered. I don\u2019t know. He could have been… You know, do we have porters on trains anymore? Do we have porters in hotels? They do in the UK. Do we have porters in hotels anymore? So you\u2019re saying this is Freudian, almost?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I could be wrong, but I see a pattern here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, I will, as they say, take this under advisement, and I will tell you that Snerdley thinks you\u2019re on to something, otherwise you would not have made it through the screening process. So one thing I know is that Snerdley agrees with you, and that makes me doubt you. Just being fair. Just being… (laughing) Okay. <\/p>\n

“There aren\u2019t that many examples in American history, maybe even world history, where you see maids, seamstresses, porters, and laborers who are able to fundamentally transform the most powerful country on earth. Most of all, that\u2019s what I was thinking about, when I talked about in my speech.” Well, but they weren\u2019t all there, the people that voted for him. There were barely 20,000 people there. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. Look, I don\u2019t know. And Oprah\u2019s mother was a maid. And Eric Holder\u2019s brother, uncle, something or other, came from… (interruption) Oprah\u2019s there representing The Butler? You guys are off the beaten path. I just think if he\u2019s that far gone — and I understand it\u2019s entirely possible, but… I know. I\u2019m fascinated by the way people think. Let me take that under consideration. I hadn\u2019t thought of that, but I will. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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