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RUSH: Okay, folks, I\u2019m being hounded. People\u2019s memories here are just too long. I\u2019m being hounded here for all these sound bites about me that I started the show talking about. I go through the first 15 sound bites in the roster today and just skipped them because they\u2019re all about me, and so people ask, “Are you gonna play those?” Okay, I figure now that we\u2019ve let all but a half hour of the show go by we can get into some of this. Let\u2019s go to the top of the sound bites, Mike. Go to number one here. I gotta note from Cookie last night. I just gotta tell you. Cookie sent me an e-mail, “Look, could I please have an exemption from our ban on any audio from Al Sharpton\u2019s show?” And I said, “Why?” She said, “‘Cause he said something hilarious about you.” So I relented, not knowing what it was. I knew I wasn\u2019t gonna find out \u2019til the show started today. I get the roster about two minutes before the show starts that\u2019s when I found out what it was. So last night — Sharpton calls his show Politics Nation — and he had Jonathan Capehart, an editorial writer for the Washington Post on as his guest.<\/p>\n


\nSHARPTON: No greater defender of racial harmony than Rush Lumbard (sic) also brought in race today, Jonathan. Let me show you what he said.<\/p>\n

CAPEHART: Oh, boy!<\/p>\n

RUSH LUMBARD ARCHIVE: What\u2019s next, folks, a cartoon on MSNBC showing Herman Cain <\/a>with huge lips eating a watermelon? What are they gonna do next? The racial stereotypes that these people are using to go after Herman Cain, what is the one thing that it tells us? It… Well, it tells us who the real racists are, yeah, but it tells us that Herman Cain is somebody, don\u2019t you see? Can\u2019t have… We cannot have a black Republican running for the office of president. We can\u2019t have one elected. We can\u2019t have an Hispanic. The left owns those two groups.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now it\u2019s time for Sharpton to respond. This is what Cookie thought was funny…<\/p>\n

SHARPTON: Now, aside from the fact that, uh, Mr. Lumbard\u2019s the one that has done thing against President Obama with songs like Proper Negro —<\/p>\n

CAPEHART: Right!<\/p>\n

SHARPTON: — and all the other kinds of things, uhhh, and he has this imaginary MSNBC story when we have real racial derogatory references that he\u2019s made and others on the right about the president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Proper Negro? Proper Negro. Now, this is interesting. (interruption) No, it\u2019s Rush Lumbard. “Rush Lumbard is the one who\u2019s done things against Obama with songs like the Proper Negro.” Now, he\u2019s obviously confusing with the ‘Magic Negro,\u2019 but it\u2019s a window to his mind. “Resist We Much!” Resist We Much. Here\u2019s Jonathan Capehart with his theory on all this…<\/p>\n

CAPEHART: The thing that galls me about Rush Limbaugh and — and Ann Coulter suddenly showing concern about all this is like, “Why is all of a sudden this concern, y\u2019all?” After years of stereotyping and derision and putting down African-Americans and people of color, why suddenly are you rallying around the defense of this one man?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is an editorial writer for the Washington Post: Jonathan Capehart. You ever heard of Clarence Thomas, Mr. Capehart? You ever heard of Thomas Sowell? You ever heard…? This idea that we are rallying around “this one black guy,” why? Why are we rallying? With all the racism that we\u2019ve been exhibiting all these years, why all of a sudden are we rallying around this guy? This is an editorial writer for the Washington Post. Here\u2019s Ann Coulter. She was on Maude Behar\u2019s show on Headline News last night.<\/p>\n

MAUDE: Your friend Rush Limbaugh was… Didn\u2019t he call, uhh, Obama the “Magic Negro”? What does that mean? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, the “Magic Negro”?<\/p>\n

COULTER: It\u2019s apparently —<\/p>\n

MAUDE: It comes from both sides, is what I\u2019m trying to tell you.<\/p>\n

COULTER: It was the title of an article in the LA Times. He was quoting the title. That\u2019s what it comes from.<\/p>\n

MAUDE: Oh! Didn\u2019t he also say that he was an “affirmative action president”? They\u2019re always asking —<\/p>\n

COULTER: I don\u2019t know!<\/p>\n

BEHAR: — let me see your grades —<\/p>\n

COULTER: That\u2019s his show!<\/p>\n

BEHAR: — let me see your birth certificate —<\/p>\n

COULTER: Invite him on your show. I don\u2019t know. You\u2019re bringing up stuff that I don\u2019t know. I happen to remember the “Magic Negro.” Now you\u2019re going into stuff I never even heard before that someone else said that I never heard \u2019em say.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She\u2019s saying, “I\u2019m here to talk about me. Why are you asking me about Limbaugh? The ‘Magic Negro\u2019 thing came from the LA Times,” but Behar didn\u2019t even hear that. She\u2019s a total idiot. She didn\u2019t even hear that. “Well, didn\u2019t — she call him — he called him affirmative action!” They don\u2019t want to know the truth. They\u2019re not interested in it, because the lies that they\u2019ve constructed for themselves are just much too easy to adhere to — and then last night on The Last Word, Lawrence O\u2019Donnell had Tom Brokaw on. Brokaw\u2019s got a new book called The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation About America; and O\u2019Donnell said, “You know, one of the first to drag race into this coverage loudly was Rush Limbaugh yesterday on his show; and I found Rush Limbaugh in your book in a surprising entry where you write that Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves to declare me ‘a self-hating liberal.\u2019 Now, with much of what Rush says we can never figure out what he means. Did you have any idea what Rush meant?”
\nBROKAW: No. I think he\u2019s… Maybe he\u2019s used that, uhh, on a couple of occasions, except I wouldn\u2019ta got my first job in Omaha or my second job in Atlanta or I wouldn\u2019ta been hired by the network if my skin pigmentation had been one shade darker; and when I said that Rush described me on the air as a self-hating liberal; and I say in the book I go on to say that Rush of all people should know that people like us who make a very good living, uh, talking about ourselves cannot be self-hating. We think we\u2019re grand, in fact.<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: (haughty chuckling)<\/p>\n

BROKAW: And I count him chief among those. He, at least, is an original. There are many wannabe Rushes out there that are looking for any opening and any opportunity.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So that\u2019s Brokaw and he\u2019s talking about his book. I remember that. I did call him “a self-hating liberal.” We\u2019ve got the bite coming up here in just a second, but they went on. O\u2019Donnell said, “Look, one more quote from the book about Rush because he represents one side of the polarization of the country. You say that Rush earned his fortune creating an enormous audience of the faithful — or Dittoheads as they like to be called. They worship at the altar of Limbaugh, appreciating — never questioning — his researching. Do you feel that there\u2019s a partisan absolutely never questioning one\u2019s assumptions in today\u2019s politics?” (sic) Listen to that question. Here\u2019s the question Brokaw was asked again: “Do you think that there\u2019s partisan absolutely, never questioning one\u2019s assumptions in today\u2019s politics? There\u2019s a less possibility of hearing something that might change your mind from the other side?”<\/p>\n

BROKAW: Rush, as I say, was at least an original. He was there first. He made it clear about who he was. I remember four years ago, or maybe it was eight years ago, he was questioning the conservative credentials of Dick Cheney.<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: (haughty chuckling)<\/p>\n

BROKAW: I was driving down the Florida Turnpike, wide-eyed, listening to Rush Limbaugh talk about whether or not Dick Cheney was a true conservative. He obviously is a very powerful voice in the American political culture and we have no question about where he stands. But then, as I say, there are lot of Rush wannabes — and then across the political spectrum on the left, you\u2019ll find a lot of people who don\u2019t want to hear any ideas if they possibly come from right of center in some fashion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whew. We do our best to keep up. (interruption) A lot of wannabes. A lot of wannabes. Tom, he\u2019s going out of his way here. He… (interruption) No, no. He didn\u2019t slam me. He\u2019s going out of his way, there. There\u2019s begrudging acknowledgment there. So let\u2019s go back. It was November 5, 2008. By the way, I don\u2019t remember questioning Cheney\u2019s conservatism. I say too much on this program, and in so many varied circumstances, I\u2019m not gonna sit here and deny it. It could have been a parody or a joke or a moment of satire. I don\u2019t remember it, and I can\u2019t think of a reason why I would have questioned Cheney\u2019s conservatism, but you never know. This is November 5, 2008, and — ta ta ta ta ta — yeah, from this program. Brokaw was hosting Meet the Press at the time, and… (interruption) What are you laughing at? (interruption) What? (interruption) Well, I can\u2019t! I can\u2019t think of a time. It doesn\u2019t occur to me to be critical of Cheney for a lack of conservatism. But as I say, I utter a lot of words here in many different circumstances, some satire and parody and who knows? I mean, that\u2019s as close to a flat-out denial as anything in the world I would deny, but I\u2019m curious about that. He said he heard it. He\u2019s on the Florida Turnpike. Okay, again, November 5, 2008.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: “If my skin had been one pigment darker, none of that would have happened.” He would not have gotten a second chance if his skin was one pigment darker? This self-loathing is just… (laughing) You\u2019re right. It\u2019s breathtaking to behold. If Tom Brokaw had been one pigment darker, he\u2019d have just been Ed Bradley! He could have been president, for crying out loud, if he was just one pigment darker. He could have been Ed Bradley. He could have been Tom Bradley. He could have been Doug Wilder, could have been any number of people. One pigment darker? He\u2019s making it out here, if he\u2019d have been one pigment darker, he would have been a total miserable failure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I had the same reaction to that as when I heard Phil Donahue felt all guilty because of where he was born. He kept talking about “the accident of his birth” on his show. Phil Donahue said if he\u2019d-a been born a hundred miles further south it would have been in Mexico or whatever and who knows what woulda happened to him; and I don\u2019t understand the thinking of constantly going through life with all this guilt, particularly over something you have no control over, but I think that is the source of the guilt, interestingly enough. But I was floored. Brokaw actually was saying: One pigment darker, and he would not have had his career. History does not bear that out. (interruption) You like that line, “He could have been Ed Bradley”? (laughing) It\u2019s funny you didn\u2019t tell Lawrence O\u2019Donnell about that line. He could have been Ed Bradley, could have been Tom Bradley! (laughing) Could have been Doug Wilder! Any number of people.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, it was just pointed out to me, folks, that Tom Brokaw in one of those sound bites was saying that he couldn\u2019t be self-loathing because he, like me, has spent a career talking about himself and if you do that you can\u2019t possibly hate yourself. You gotta think you\u2019re grand. I thought Brokaw was reading the news all those years! He just said here he\u2019s talking about himself all those years. I thought he was a news guy. It just goes to show how you can misunderstand people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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