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RUSH: Richard from Tacoma, Washington, as we go back to the phones. Welcome, great to have you here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Richard here, Rush, in Tacoma, and I never doubt you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you very much, Richard, appreciate it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Let me start out with what I think is most important, and that is the Republican message to Hispanics. And that is if you\u2019re Hispanic and in the country legally and you work in agriculture, food service, landscaping, meat packing, hospitality, or you\u2019re unemployed and you support amnesty and\/or continued illegal immigration, you\u2019re stupid, okay? You\u2019re just stupid.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Why do you want the Republicans to say that? <\/p>\n
CALLER: Because that\u2019s the message that the Hispanics have to understand. If you are in the country legally and you have a job or you don\u2019t have a job, we are running out of resources to support anyone and everyone. So what would you think? <\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, I\u2019m just saying to Hispanic voters. If you support continued illegal immigration, you\u2019re cutting your own throat.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, there\u2019s no question that\u2019s true. I\u2019m not disputing the logic of what you\u2019re saying, but I just don\u2019t know how high up on the totem pole I\u2019d put the message.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, we keep on handing out sugar pills to these people. We need to let them know that if you\u2019re voting for current members of the congressional Hispanic caucus, you\u2019re also cutting your throat, because they just want more people to come in and take your job and we\u2019re running out of resources for welfare. <\/p>\n
RUSH: No, no, they don\u2019t want people coming in here working. The Democrat Party doesn\u2019t want illegal immigrants here working. They want them voting. They want them on the welfare rolls. They don\u2019t want them working. They\u2019re not a threat to anybody with a job in terms of what the Democrat Party intends for them. I don\u2019t disagree with the logic of what you\u2019re saying at all. It hinges on the belief here that identity politics works, that Hispanics are going to vote in unison in monolithic ways, and they\u2019re going to support Hispanics regardless, whether they\u2019re rapists, murderers, illegal immigrants, whatever, I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s necessarily true. I think that\u2019s another one of these myths. Now, it is true of some ethnic groups. It could be true of Hispanics, too. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m just not an identity politics guy. This is probably why I\u2019m never, ever going to be a political advisor. I don\u2019t even think this way. In terms of advising somebody, a Republican candidate of what to say, that would never cross my mind. <\/p>\n
You start calling people stupid, you\u2019re opening yourself up for all kinds of — (interruption) I don\u2019t have a message for women voters and I don\u2019t have a message for male voters and I don\u2019t have a message for Hispanic voters, I don\u2019t have a message for black voters. I just have a message for voters. Maybe I make the mistake assuming they\u2019re all Americans, and I would speak to them that way. But, look, that\u2019s why I do this and not that. I listen to political people talk about what they\u2019ve got to do to win elections, and I just scratch my head. They\u2019re the experts. How they have to go about this particular block of votes and that particular block of votes and the policy they have to have to do that, and I just don\u2019t think that way. (interruption) Hmm. Uh-huh. Well, if I went to an Hispanic audience? Yeah, I\u2019d talk to them about American exceptionalism. I\u2019d talk to them about American exceptionalism. You\u2019re here, you want to be an American, you want to be an exceptional American, here\u2019s what we\u2019re all about, here\u2019s how you do it. I\u2019d give them a little American history. <\/p>\n
When I go out, and very rarely anymore, and do a Rush to Excellence tour, I could care less who is in the audience. I don\u2019t even look out there, “Okay, how many Hispanics are here? I gotta make sure I say something.” I don\u2019t even think that way. And I don\u2019t go, “Oh, I got some women out there and they\u2019re pretty old, boy, I better say X. I got some young women, too; I better moderate what I\u2019m saying.” I don\u2019t think that way. I just don\u2019t. That\u2019s why I never qualified to be a politician.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Yesterday Obama lost his cool with BET. And it says here that he lost his cool with Hispanic media. This is yesterday at the White House. Obama participated in an open-for-questions roundtable responding to questions from readers of Yahoo, MSN Latino, AOL Latino and HuffPost Latino Voices on issues that matter most to the Hispanic community. An unidentified guy said, “Mr. President, I am an undocumented law graduate from New York City. I\u00c2\u2019m just writing to say that your message that you do not have a dance partner, it is not a message of hope. A real dancer goes out on the dance floor and takes out his or her dance partner. You\u00c2\u2019re just waiting. You have the facts, numbers, dollars, and votes on the side of granting administrative relief for Dreamers. We are doing our part. It is time to do yours, Mr. President.”<\/p>\n
OBAMA: This notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true. I think there\u2019s been a great disservice done to the cause of getting the DREAM Act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that somehow, by myself, I can go and do these things. It\u2019s just not true. We live in a democracy.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Damn it.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: You have to pass bills through the legislature, and then I can sign it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Damn it. If I were Castro or Chavez, I wouldn\u2019t have to worry about all that crap.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: By the way, that Hispanic roundtable that we just played that last sound bite from, we\u2019re wondering whether the guy who asked the question has been deported yet. He was an undocumented law student. Anyway, not one person at that Hispanic roundtable asked a question about Fast and Furious. Not one person, and a lot of Hispanics have died. Fast and Furious has killed a whole lot of Hispanics. No question about it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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