{"id":16886,"date":"2012-01-11T18:18:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T18:18:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-11T18:18:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T18:18:29","slug":"belafonte_rips_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/01\/11\/belafonte_rips_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Belafonte Rips Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img id=\"eZObject_58002\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/West_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH: I\u2019ll play a couple sound bites here. Harry Belafonte. &#8220;Day-o! Daaaaaaaaaay-o! Midnight come and me wan\u2019 go ho\u2019.&#8221; Harry Belafonte is not happy with Obama. Well, this is Sunday, on &#8220;the syndicated Smiley and West Show.&#8221; Don\u2019t tell me they\u2019ve got a radio show now? Smiley and Cornel West have a radio show. I thought they had their Poverty Tour. When did these guys get a&#8230;? Actually who doesn\u2019t have a radio show anymore? So, okay, Sunday on the syndicated Smiley and West radio show hosted by PBS\u2019 Tavis Smiley and retired Princeton professor Cornel West.I saw Cornel on TV the other day, and he\u2019s got that Afro going, man. Talk about the Barbershop movie? I mean, it is right out of that. He is looking cool. Cornel was revved up. So they have Belafonte on as their guest Sunday, and here\u2019s the first two sound bites.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>BELAFONTE: (whispering) When I think of Barack Obama and I think about all that is at stake here, I\u2019ve really long since left talking about how many terms will he be as a president. I am very cautious of the fact of those who thinks (sic) that he has some hidden agenda and if only he could be given a second term for us to see the new light, new things will be revealed.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, so, well, (impression). &#8220;I\u2019m very upset that Obama has not raised the hammer and sickle flag. He just wants to go all communist all the time, and he\u2019s being told that they have to wait \u2019til second term. They can\u2019t do it now or he\u2019ll never get reelected and Belafonte is saying, &#8216;I don\u2019t believe the second term crap. He doesn\u2019t have a moral compass! He\u2019s not gonna go communist. He\u2019s not gonna wait \u2019til second term. We\u2019re being lied to. Everybody lying to us about everybody! Obama lying, Michelle lying to us, Rahm\u2019s lying. Everybody\u2019s lying. The only people not lying is Jeremiah Wright and they got him muzzled.&#8221; That\u2019s what Belafonte is saying. So he didn\u2019t even pause for a question; he just kept going.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_58009\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaBelafonte.jpg\"\/><BR\/>BELAFONTE: (whispering) I think if there was the kind of moral compass serving Barack Obama in the way we all had hoped, the moral force would have helped him make choices. The absence of that force in his equations, the absence of that barometer to guide him when he has to make these decisions which are hugely complicated, especially from the political perspective. He should have come to the table with things that I think would have helped us at this moment in crisis.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (impression) &#8220;So that\u2019s pretty much what I said. He doesn\u2019t have, uh, the moral ability to go forward. It\u2019s too complicated, uh, and he doesn\u2019t know what to do when. He hasn\u2019t been doing it, and so I\u2019m gonna vote Romney, right? No!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I remember once, folks &#8212; this was funny &#8212; shortly after I had moved to New York in 1988 or \u201989, somebody invited me to a Whitney Houston concert at Madison Square Garden.  It was before she\u2019d had all of her problems.  She was big.  And we were sitting in Madison Square Garden near the front row, and they had the place laid out basically hockey style.  They had a little bit larger than a basketball rink for seats on the floor.  And all of a sudden I hear people start shouting, &#8220;Get outta here!  What are you doing here?  You had nothing to do with her.  You freeloader!&#8221; I\u2019m looking around and I saw Harry Belafonte walking toward the stage.  The show had not started.  It was the pre-show.  All the lights are up, and Harry Belafonte was walking around down there, and this crowd just started mocking him like I couldn\u2019t believe.  &#8220;You freeloader! You got nothing to do with her success, what are you doing here?&#8221;  It was uncanny. It was all over the place, anybody that saw him.  I thought, &#8220;Wow, this is a learning experience for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I\u2019ll play a couple sound bites here. Harry Belafonte. &#8220;Day-o! Daaaaaaaaaay-o! Midnight come and me wan\u2019 go ho\u2019.&#8221; Harry Belafonte is not happy with Obama. Well, this is Sunday, on &#8220;the syndicated Smiley and West Show.&#8221; Don\u2019t tell me they\u2019ve got a radio show now? Smiley and Cornel West have a radio show. 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