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RUSH: The Attorney General, Eric Holder — and the IRS and the liberal lawyers at the ACLU — will conduct briefings with several hundred pastors in the African-American church community in how to participate in the presidential election, which the Congressional Black Caucus chair expects will help Obama\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n
Representative Emanuel Cleaver (Democrat-Missouri), said, quote, “We will have representatives from nine denominations who actually pastor somewhere in the neighborhood of about 10 million people, and we\u00c2\u2019re going to first of all equip them with the information they need to know about what they can say and what they cannot say in the church that would violate their 501(c)(3) status with the IRS. In fact, we\u00c2\u2019re going to have the IRS administrator there, we\u00c2\u2019re going to have the Attorney General Eric Holder there, we\u00c2\u2019re going to have the lawyers\u00c2\u2019 organization from around the country, the ACLU — all giving ministers guidance about what they can and cannot do.”<\/p>\n
Nobody\u2019s gonna level any charges against \u2019em. (interruption) Well, there may be something else going on here. Because, frankly, ladies and gentlemen, Holder\u2019s not gonna do anything to anybody if they do cross the line, and neither is the IRS. I mean, for crying out loud, if the New Black Panthers can engage in near-criminal activity and voter intimidation at a polling place and Holder lets that go, what the heck is he gonna do to a black minister who crosses the line on politicking from the pulpit? Nothing!<\/p>\n
So what\u2019s this really all about? Why do you have to have Holder and the IRS and the ACLU have meetings with black pastors about ostensibly protecting their 501(c)(3) status? That\u2019s not what this is. That\u2019s not what this is. There\u2019s something else going on here. I don\u2019t know what it is. Some people might speculate that maybe the Democrats are worried about black turnout. I find that hard to believe. I don\u2019t see black turnout having to be goosed. No, really.<\/p>\n
Maybe I\u2019m wrong. Maybe I\u2019m suffering from too many decades here of behavior that I think is locked in. I know black unemployment is high. Black teenage unemployment is high. I know that there are… You know, this is probably one of the biggest unreported stories in the country, too. How many average American black people are really ticked off \u2019cause they thought so much more was gonna happen whenever the first black president was actually serving?<\/p>\n
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We actually have the inauguration of the first black president. Like that early town hall meeting in Naples or Tampa, wherever it was, where the people that showed up actually told Obama they needed a new kitchen and they needed a new car. They got that specific about what they expected. I don\u2019t know how much disappointment there is that those kinds of things have not been delivered. I mean, expectations, I don\u2019t care how unreasonable they are, they\u2019re still real to the people that have \u2019em.<\/p>\n
So then you\u2019d have to say, “Well, are they really so disappointed that the bubble burst or whatever that they\u2019re not gonna vote?” I can\u2019t see that. I can\u2019t. But it may be. Look, folks, there\u2019s something to this besides helping these preachers stay on the right side of IRS law when it comes to preaching in the pulpit, \u2019cause nobody\u2019s gonna prosecute \u2019em on that anyway. Nobody\u2019s gonna go after \u2019em on that.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: According to an article in The Politico today, Eric Holder is telling black leaders that the sacred right to vote is under attack, that that\u2019s what he\u2019s meeting with them about. “Holder to Black Leaders: ‘Sacred\u2019 Right to Vote Under Attack — Attorney General Eric Holder told a council of African American church leaders Wednesday that the ‘sacred\u2019 right to vote is under assault nationwide, with federal lawsuits and at least a dozen state laws that could weaken — or block — minority access to the ballot box this fall. … Holder said in a speech before the Council of Black Churches. The twin factors of lingering bias and systematic assaults from the right, he said, means that ‘for the first time in our [lifetimes], we are failing to live up to one of our most noble ideals\u2019 — the right to equal access to the vote.”<\/p>\n
Now, this tells me that Snerdley may be right, there might be some… what\u2019s the way to put this? I don\u2019t want to say lack of interest, but maybe the enthusiasm is waned. ‘Cause, folks, nobody\u2019s trying to stop anybody from voting. This is not the Jim Crow era. This is not the 1800s. It\u2019s not right after the Civil War. There is nobody trying to stop people from voting. The problem we have with vote fraud is dead people voting. The vote fraud problem we have is people who don\u2019t exist voting, or people who do exist voting multiple times in multiple places. Our problems are things like early voting. That\u2019s a travesty if there ever was one. There aren\u2019t any Democrats anymore like Bull Connor trying to fire hose blacks to stay away from the polling place. There aren\u2019t anymore Democrats like George Wallace trying to keep blacks out of universities and so forth. There aren\u2019t anymore Democrats like J. William Fulbright from Arkansas, Clinton\u2019s mentor, who are trying to deny blacks the right to vote. There aren\u2019t any more Democrats like Lester Maddox doing that. <\/p>\n
Really, I have to laugh when I listen to these guys talking about voting rights and how they\u2019re being watered down. All anybody wants is a photo ID to get rid of the fraud. And of course Holder, the Reverend Jackson, the rest of the civil rights coalition, “Oh, no, no. That\u2019s discrimination.” I\u2019m gonna say this again. I\u2019ve said this once before but I\u2019m gonna say it again. You know and I know how much is required just in the general economy. You have to have a photo ID before you can engage in much of American commerce. Getting a credit card. I can\u2019t think of all the things. It would be easier to list the things that you don\u2019t need a photo ID for. Cash a check. I don\u2019t care what it is. You need a photo ID. And yet here\u2019s a group of people, supposedly looking out for the best interests of their charges, civil rights leaders, who don\u2019t want black people to have a photo ID, all because somehow this is gonna lead to them not being allowed to vote. Somebody explain that to me? <\/p>\n
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This is what we despise about liberalism, is the humanity it destroys, the dignity that it takes away from people. They\u2019re afraid some Democrats are only gonna be allowed to vote one time. So they have these preachers get together with a meeting ostensibly about what they can and can\u2019t do from the pulpit. That\u2019s a crock. Obviously what\u2019s going on here is they are afraid that there is a waning enthusiasm on the part of black voters, that\u2019s what this is, and they\u2019re gonna try to scare \u2019em. The preachers are being told to scare \u2019em by telling them X, somebody, Romney is trying to fix it so you can\u2019t vote. That\u2019s what this is all about. I\u2019m convinced now. Can\u2019t prove it, but I wouldn\u2019t doubt it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I\u2019ve got Eric Holder audio sound bites explaining what this black church visit is about. It\u2019s really… Folks, it\u2019s irresponsible. In fact, let\u2019s just go right to \u2019em. Twenty-four, 25. This is irresponsible. It\u2019s worse than irresponsible. This is reprehensible what Holder is doing here. This was this morning in Washington. It was a Congressional Black Caucus Faith Leaders Summit on Voting Rights. This is why Holder is having meetings with the black churches, the ministers. He\u2019s gonna bring the IRS along, and he\u2019s gonna bring the Congressional Black Caucus along and the ACLU along.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve got two sound bites. Now, keep in mind, this is the Attorney General of the United States. This is not some rabid pundit on the left on MSNBC. This is not some say-anything-to-get-noticed, rabble-rousing media person. It\u2019s not some kooky, left-wing communist member of Congress. This is the Attorney General of the United States, who is supposed to look at this country in a nonpartisan way and enforce the laws of this country. He\u2019s the number one law enforcement officer of this country, and his job is to protect and guarantee freedom, along with everybody else who takes an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. But this! This is just…<\/p>\n
What he\u2019s doing here in these two sound bites is reprehensible.<\/p>\n
HOLDER: Of all the freedoms that we enjoy today, none is more important or more sacred than the right to vote. I\u2019ve heard a consistent drumbeat of concern from citizens who, often for the first time in their lives, now have reason to believe that we are failing to live up to one of our nation\u2019s most noble ideals and that some of the achievements that define the civil —<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n
HOLDER: — rights movement —<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Stop this. Stop this. I really don\u2019t know the word to properly describe what this is. “I have heard a consistent drumbeat of concern from citizens who, often for the first time in their lives, now have reason to believe that we are failing to live up to the most noble ideal: the right to vote.” Where is this happening? I want to know. Who in this country feels threatened? Who feels like somebody is trying to keep them from voting? And don\u2019t pop this voter ID thing at me.<\/p>\n
If you look at polling data, you will find a majority of African-Americans favor a photo ID. African-Americans are human beings! They have the same concerns as anybody else. They don\u2019t want an electoral system that\u2019s filled with fraud and deceit. They don\u2019t want to be taken advantage of. They don\u2019t want to have their vote not count or to count 25 times. A majority of them favor a photo ID. But where is this movement that\u2019s designed to get people to stop voting? Who\u2019s behind it? I want some names!<\/p>\n
Holder ought to name names.<\/p>\n
He ought to name the organizations.<\/p>\n
He ought to produce the evidence!<\/p>\n
Who is it, in 2012, that has a stated effort to deny anybody — I don\u2019t care who it is — the right to vote?<\/p>\n
And these people from whom Holder has “heard a consistent drumbeat of concern from citizens who, often for the first time in their lives, now have reason to believe” that people don\u2019t want \u2019em to vote? Who are these people that have this fear, and why do they have this fear? Could it be they\u2019ve been told a pack of lies by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton or other civil rights leaders? Who is it that\u2019s scaring them? The last I looked, everybody was campaigning to try to win their votes!<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t see anybody trying to stop them from voting. Not en masse on a racial basis. This is absurd. It is irresponsible! This is the Attorney General of the United States making this claim. He doesn\u2019t name names, he doesn\u2019t name organizations, and here he is having meetings with the Congressional Black Caucus and ministers of African-American churches and attempting to tell these people, “There are people that don\u2019t want you to vote!” Here, play the rest of the bite.<\/p>\n
HOLDER: — in the balance. Congressman Lewis may have described the reason for these concerns best in a speech when pointing out that the voting rights that he worked throughout his life and nearly gave his life to ensure — and I quote him — “are under attack by a deliberate and systematic attempt to prevent millions of elderly voters, young voters, students, and minority and low-income voters from exercising their constitutional right to engage in the democratic process,” unquote.<\/p>\n
RUSH: John Lewis is who he\u2019s talking about. From Georgia. Made famous in the march to Selma. I want to know: Who is it that\u2019s trying to prevent millions of elderly young students, minority, low income… That pretty much covers it all, doesn\u2019t it? Every victimized cliche and group you could come up with, he\u2019s covered it. Who is it that\u2019s trying to stop millions of people from voting? I know, I know. They\u2019re trying to say that photo ID, voter ID is the weapon here.<\/p>\n
Intellectually, this doesn\u2019t compute. Remember, now, I live in Realville. I have a photo ID. I can\u2019t vote where I live without it! I have to show my photo ID when I go vote. I have to prove that I\u2019m in the register. I can\u2019t just show \u2019em my card. They have to see a picture. How in the world…? And it\u2019s up to me to get the picture, and nobody is stopping anybody from getting a photo ID. Now, I\u2019ve heard what Jesse Jackson is telling people. In Georgia they tried to do this, and they said, “We\u2019ll even do it free. Just come down to the office.”<\/p>\n
And Jesse Jackson said (summarized), “Don\u2019t leave your home! That\u2019s what they want. They want to get you out of your home, and they want to get you in there and they want to take away your privacy.” Well, somebody ought to ask these people: “Do you see all the millions of Americans that have photo IDs. Just exactly what has happened to \u2019em because of that? How have their lives worsened? How have people who have photo IDs been prevented from voting? When\u2019s the last known case of this?<\/p>\n
“When was it that somebody showed up with a photo ID and because of that were told they couldn\u2019t vote?” This really is irresponsible. It\u2019s absurd, and it\u2019s a classic illustration of the disservice done to the black community by black leaders. They\u2019re lying to them, scaring them, keeping them huddled in fear in the corners of their homes with imaginary monsters and threats (who are gonna do imaginary, monstrous things to them). If I didn\u2019t know better, I would say they\u2019re setting up an excuse for Obama losing here.<\/p>\n
If I didn\u2019t know better, I would say they were already scared that Obama\u2019s gonna lose, the black vote\u2019s not gonna turn out, and this is all the setup and excuse for it. But I reject that because it\u2019s way too early for anybody to be thinking that way. Don\u2019t you need a photo ID to get food stamps or to use food stamps? I don\u2019t know. But you need a photo ID for virtually everything. You need a photo ID to buy cigarettes! But to get the EBT card? I know it\u2019s an ATM card, but maybe not.<\/p>\n
The government probably passes out those things. They don\u2019t care who gets \u2019em. I don\u2019t care. (garbled) Still, this is… Folks… (garbled) I got a cigar in my mouth to help me talk. (interruption) I know you do! You need a photo ID to buy cigarettes. I have this cigar in my mouth to make sure I don\u2019t utter a profanity. I am so ticked off here. I\u2019m not gonna tell you what profanity I was thinking. The problem is I wasn\u2019t thinking of a profanity. I just knew I was headed in that direction. This is… I can\u2019t tell you.<\/p>\n
Stuff like this is what depresses me. You know, we\u2019re never gonna get over the hump. We are never going to get over it, not with stuff like this happening from the highest levels of our government. We are never gonna get these people who are the prisoners of liberalism free and liberated to join the rest of the country and pursue happiness and prosperity. It just isn\u2019t gonna happen with this kind of irresponsible… This is drivel. Here\u2019s the next sound bite. This is Holder promising now to fight these imaginary laws that are gonna keep people from voting.<\/p>\n
HOLDER: The recent wave of changes to state-level voter identification laws also has presented a number of problems requiring the department\u2019s attention. In December, we objected to South Carolina\u2019s voter ID law after finding — and this is based on the state\u2019s own data, the data that they sent — the proposed change would place an unfair burden on nonwhite voters.<\/p>\n
RUSH: How?<\/p>\n
HOLDER: (crosstalk)<\/p>\n
RUSH: How the hell does that happen?<\/p>\n
HOLDER: (crosstalk)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Stop the tape! This is reprehensible and irresponsible. How in the world does it place this “burden on nonwhite voters”? An attorney general of the United States is not even supposed to think this way, much less talk this way. “State\u2019s own data… proposed change would place an unfair burden on nonwhite voters.” Why? Because they don\u2019t have photo IDs and they\u2019d have to go get them?<\/p>\n
Why don\u2019t they have them? Who\u2019s fault is that? Nobody\u2019s preventing them from getting them? The only people telling them not to get them are people like Holder and Reverend Jackson, civil rights leaders. “Don\u2019t you dare go get one because if you do you\u2019re gonna undermine our whole movement! The more of you that get photo IDs, the more you undermine our number one vote technique, which is fraud.” Here\u2019s the rest of this bite, if I can handle it.<\/p>\n
HOLDER: And this past March, we objected to a photo ID requirement in Texas because it would have a disproportionate impact on Hispanic voters. We also will continue working to enforce provisions like the Motor Voter Law, and to that end have recently filed two lawsuits to increase access to registration opportunities. In addition to these and other efforts to ensure access to the ballot box —<\/p>\n
RUSH: This is Rachelle in Orange County, California. Hi. <\/p>\n
CALLER: I was just noticing that I think, especially from the last election, that I think the black churches are probably now being swayed because of the whole gay thing with Obama. I believe the African-American churches, they\u2019re very religious, and they, you know —<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Yes. I\u2019m pretty sure, because I\u2019ve heard that a lot from, you know, you talk to young people to even older people in African-American communities, they are not really cool with that. I think the whole voter fraud or whatever it is, I think that\u2019s a distraction. <\/p>\n
RUSH: You know what, I think you may have a point here because I think whatever\u2019s going on they are panicking.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, yes.<\/p>\n