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RUSH: There\u2019s another news story that came out. This is in the New York Post, but I guess it\u2019s actually been in more places and I just read it first in the New York Post. Jodi Kantor, who is an infobabe reporter for the New York Times, has a book on the Obamas about to come out. It had some excerpts published over the weekend, and they reveal in this book that the White House put on a big Halloween party in 2009 — right in the middle of the worst of the economic downturn — and it was an Alice in Wonderland-themed party. They had Johnny Depp come in, in character, and run the whole thing, along with a Hollywood director named Tim Burton. They had vials…<\/p>\n
As I say, the room was decorated by Tim Burton and included costumes. George Lucas actually sent Chewbacca from Star Wars. He actually sent the costume and an actor to be Chewbacca. They drank punch out of blood vials. And Johnny Depp was there in character, the Mad Hatter or some such thing, and — and the media obviously knew about it and didn\u2019t say a word about it. They sat on it, knowing that such extravagance and weirdness might not fly too well in a country in the middle of one of its worse recessions and now it\u2019s come out and the White House says, “Well, the media knew about this,” which I don\u2019t doubt! I don\u2019t doubt for a minute the media knew all about this and was hoping to be invited to it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This book by Jodi Kantor, New York Times, that reveals this Halloween party in 2009 also talks about the problem that Michelle Obama has with her husband\u2019s staff. She didn\u2019t get along with Rahm Emanuel; didn\u2019t get along with anybody in the West Wing, primarily because Obama\u2019s staff is not radical enough. And I have heard fairly credible reliable sources that Obama is influenced by two people, his wife and Valerie Jarrett, that there are two women who basically — and I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t mean to say it disparaging, I\u2019m just describing them, two women, Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama who basically are on this guy\u2019s case every day and telling him what to do, where to go, how to do it, so forth and so on. And that Michelle is just profoundly radical. They\u2019ve kept it quiet. They\u2019ve done a good job of making her look like she doesn\u2019t do much except raise the two daughters, but that she\u2019s really an activist in there and not getting along with Obama\u2019s staff because they\u2019re just not radical enough. They\u2019re not moving far enough, fast enough, quick enough to the left to satisfy her. That\u2019s all in this book. <\/p>\n
Anyway, I\u2019m reading the New York Post expose on this book about this Halloween party, the Alice in Wonderland Halloween party, and my first reaction, “So what, would anybody have cared anyway if the news had gotten out?” I know it\u2019s Halloween, October 2009, we\u2019re right in the midst of the stimulus not working, but still, in October of 2009 there\u2019s still a lot of hope. You don\u2019t have a lot of people still with the guts to criticize Obama. They are beginning to be at that point in time some brave souls on the right starting to take shots at the worthlessness of the stimulus and all that, but pretty much is still in this first year honeymoon phase. There\u2019s not a whole lot of criticism. The country is hurting. And I read the story and it makes a big deal here how the White House went out of the way to cover this up, to keep this quiet. <\/p>\n
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They basically had a bunch of kids over on Halloween and that\u2019s what made the news, you know, traditional White House Halloween bash. But then they closed it all off and went and had this big decadent Hollywood-esque type Henry VIII bash. “Unbeknownst to reporters, the State Dining Room had also been transformed into a secretive White House Wonderland. Tim Burton decorated it ‘in his signature creepy-comic style. His film version was about to be released, and he had turned the room into the Mad Hatter\u00c2\u2019s tea party –‘” Anybody think that\u2019s a coincidence, right in the middle of the Tea Party uprising? They\u2019re heading into the 2010 elections and here they\u2019re having a Mad Hatter tea party. <\/p>\n
“‘A long table set with antique-looking linens, enormous stuffed animals in chairs, and tiered serving plates with treats like bone-shaped meringue cookies,\u2019 reports the book, which The Post purchased at a Manhattan bookstore. ‘Fruit punch was served in blood vials at the bar. Burton\u00c2\u2019s own Mad Hatter, the actor Johnny Depp, presided over the scene in full costume, standing up on a table to welcome everyone in character.'”<\/p>\n
The book also reveals this little anecdote. “One morning during his Senate campaign, Obama didn\u00c2\u2019t show up to a meeting with donors. ‘After a frantic search, a white staffer named Peter Coffey called Obama\u00c2\u2019s barbershop to find that, yes, he was there.\u2019 The president confronted Coffey about the call later that day. ‘The relationship between a black man and his barber is sacred,\u2019 Obama bellowed … ‘For failing to understand this truth, your punishment is to watch the movie Barbershop. And for further punishment, you will then watch the sequel, Barbershop 2.'” So Obama\u2019s making race jokes to this guy who tried to find him. “You can\u2019t interrupt me when I\u2019m at the barber. That\u2019s a sacred relationship. Here, you gotta go watch Barbershop, which I think starred Ice Cube, if I\u2019m not mistaken. <\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s the point all this. When I read about this, I said, “Well, who would care?” Obama\u2019s supporters wouldn\u2019t care about this. They had thrown lavish parties in the White House, had Stevie Wonder up there, all kinds of stuff. They were turning the White House into — well, the media reported it as the cultural return of art and entertainment. It wasn\u2019t any big deal, so they had a big Halloween party. The idea that the Obamas consider themselves above and beyond and not at all in any way related to common people, what\u2019s surprising about this? The American people don\u2019t get upset about anything, why would they get upset about this? But the White House was obviously afraid there would be some people upset, so they did their best to keep it secret. <\/p>\n
Now, I don\u2019t believe the press didn\u2019t know. I think the press went along with keeping it secret. No way the press didn\u2019t know this. Whether I\u2019m right or wrong the White House thought people would care, it\u2019s clear. Now, another thing you can then ask is, “Well, if we didn\u2019t know about this, what else is going on in there that we don\u2019t know about?” And that\u2019s a legitimate question. What else is happening in the White House that the press knows about but is choosing not to report? And then there was late last week some blogger, somebody took a picture of Marie Antoinette, a painting of Marie Antoinette and put Michelle Obama\u2019s face in it. I think it was a blogger, I forget where it was. Anyway, people in the media who saw it immediately started charging racism and insensitivity and how dare they make fun of the first lady this way. <\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know how you get that. How in the world, there was nothing racial about it. How you gonna put Michelle Obama in a picture and not portray here as African-American? How do you do that? There\u2019s no racism in it at all. But anyway, that was the allegation. The point about this is, though, if you look at Michelle Obama and her vacations and her separate travel, she does consider herself royalty. And I have a theory, folks. I\u2019m not retracting anything I\u2019ve said about liberals, Marxists and their ideological aims, their idea-driven aims. <\/p>\n
But I also think that there is something else that explains all of this, the Solyndras, the health care waivers, the entire regime — and I really think it\u2019s nothing more complicated than money. I\u2019ll never forget Marion Barry, the 1984 Democrat convention, San Francisco. And I don\u2019t know what specifically he was referring to, but the theme of his speech was, “Tonight, tonight we\u2019re on the inside,” meaning, “Okay, finally we\u2019ve got our chance to be in charge of things.” And then when Mayor David Dinkins was elected mayor for life in New York City, I remember some of the civil rights coalition people saying, “All right, now it\u2019s our turn to have the money.” <\/p>\n
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They justify it by thinking, “Well, we deserve this or we\u2019re owed this because of what\u2019s been done to us and our ancestors all these years.” Who knows? I think it\u2019s part of it. I also think that it is why the Republican establishment wants back in power. Everybody in Washington wants to be in charge of the money. Everybody wants to run the committees and be the chairman. Everybody wants to be in charge of the budget. Everybody wants to have power over it. Do not discount, ever, the money. Folks, another thing not to fall for: Do not think that however wealthy somebody is, they run around thinking they have enough, because nobody ever thinks they have enough.<\/p>\n
No matter how much you have, it\u2019s very easy — it\u2019s not hard at all — to learn how to spend every dime in your pocket. It\u2019s easy. Now, people who have never had two or three million dollars think, “My gosh, what would I spend it on?” You\u2019d be surprised once you have it. It\u2019s not that hard. And the concept of, “Well, gosh, don\u2019t you have enough?” That\u2019s a myth, that\u2019s something the liberals use to try to guilt other people out of pursuing achievement and so forth. But, believe me: No matter what they have it\u2019s never enough, and I think there are a lot of reasons why the Obamas, the Democrats are doing what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n
In addition to the ideology — in addition to whatever grievances they have about this country and its past and however they think it needs to be cut down to size, however they think the people who have gotten rich need to be gotten even with — also in the mix is their chance to get their share without having to work for it and set themselves up and their friends up for life in the process. I don\u2019t doubt that that\u2019s a factor here, and they\u2019re clearly willing to use the power, and they don\u2019t care about the debt that the country is involved in. They don\u2019t think that we are at a point of peril. The idea that the national debt is now greater than the economy? No big deal.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve been hearing all their lives how the national debt\u2019s too high, the national debt\u2019s gonna cripple the country, but it never has. While they are hearing all of this horrible stuff about the debt, the deficits, all the tax rates, they look around and they see people doing just fine. They\u2019re living high on the hog, and the national debt\u2019s not hurting anybody. The rich are getting richer and that\u2019s who they want to be — and if they don\u2019t know how to earn a lot of money working for it they\u2019ll go someplace where they can legally steal it, or apportion it to themselves and their friends and that\u2019s a large part of what\u2019s going on with this regime.<\/p>\n
So when you have a big time Hollywood party like this or any other show of extravagance, to me it\u2019s patently obvious what\u2019s going on here: A bunch of people are taking advantage of having control over all that money, a chance to get a lot of it without having to work for it — under the guise of being entitled to it, pulling the strings — because in their view, this is what all their predecessors have done.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll tell you what really woke me up to this (and nobody is more cynical than I am when it comes to Congress, including Will Rogers). I don\u2019t know about you, but when I learned along with the rest of you, when I learned that Congress made it legal for themselves to use insider trading, that\u2019s all I needed to know. When they specifically exempted themselves by statute from the insider trading laws — when Congress passed a law saying, “We can use insider trading,” they have a totally different perception of themselves than we do. When it comes to morality, when it comes to ethics, when it comes to why they\u2019re there. When I heard that? You know, you live and learn. Lights still go off, red flags still get raised, but that told me a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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