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RUSH: Folks, we really need to put all of this in perspective. Obama never had a birth certificate problem. He has a spending problem. He has a redistribution of wealth problem. He has a socialism problem. There\u2019s a story today that Eric Holder had been investigating oil prices, gasoline prices, and found something very disturbing. These people are bordering on totalitarian authoritarianism. They are going to use the law for the most awful purposes, as they are with health care, flouting the Constitution. The birth certificate was a handy distraction for Obama, but even that got to be a problem for him. And now what Obama would rather people go back to noticing is all of his other problems: the wars, the debt, the lack of leadership. And this conventional wisdom that he can\u2019t be beat, that we just should set our sights on the Senate, where does this come from? <\/p>\n

How does it come that any presidential election is a loss? You know, who thought that Obama could beat Hillary 19 months before the November 2008 elections? Who thought that George H. W. Bush would lose in 1992? Nobody! Obama didn\u2019t even think he was going to win in 2008. So Obama says we gotta get rid of the silliness, we gotta move beyond this. He gets on a plane to tape the Oprah show later today, then to fly back to New York for three fundraisers. And it\u2019s the third time this month that he has been fundraising. If he didn\u2019t think he could be beat, why is he so worried about building up his war chest other than it\u2019s the standard operating procedure? Pete Wehner, friend of mine, worked with Karl Rove in the Bush White House, worked with Bill Bennett at Empower America, now posts at Commentary magazine, and he posts today about the Trump business. He says that Trump has been shown now to be even more of a clownish figure than we imagined. <\/p>\n

“Remember, Trump was saying on Monday, in an interview with CNN&rsquo;s Anderson Cooper, that unnamed sources were telling him that the original birth certificate didn&rsquo;t exist and he was now doubtful that the president was born in the United States, despite the overwhelming evidence that Obama was born in Hawaii. Yet Trump is interpreting the release of Obama&rsquo;s long-form birth certificate as a triumph, which goes to show that even successful businessmen can live in alternate universes. The other thing to notice is how Trump has in the last few days portrayed himself as a victim of an irresponsible media. In his comments this morning Trump went so far as to say that he&rsquo;s happy the White House released the president&rsquo;s birth certificate ‘so the press can stop asking me questions\u2019 about it. This after Trump has spent the better part of the month obsessing on this issue and raising it in every forum imaginable. <\/p>\n

“One does not have to be naive about American politics to believe that it is a serious enterprise –” Here\u2019s that word again, ‘serious.\u2019 “– a forum in which we debate and decide on matters of justice and what constitutes a good society. Sometimes we do better than other times. But for the last few weeks a buffoon was allowed to hijack political discourse in America and mainstream an issue that was once relegated to the fever swamps. The public&rsquo;s view of politics and politicians was already at low ebb; this whole episode will make things even worse. For those of us who care about politics and the ideas and philosophies informing politics — who believe that politics is, in the words of the Scottish novelist John Buchan, an ‘honourable adventure\u2019 — the last few weeks have been discouraging, to say the least.”<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s the inside-the-Beltway view. Somebody from outside the Beltway has dared enter the scene and they don\u2019t like it. They really don\u2019t like it. Here\u2019s Krauthammer. Now, remember, Trump called Krauthammer after Krauthammer said he wasn\u2019t serious. Trump called him to discuss it with him. Last night on The O\u2019Reilly Factor, the host, Ted Baxter, said to Krauthammer, “He calls a lot of people. He called me, said he didn\u2019t like the Al Sharpton thing. He thought that was demeaning, was a cheap shot. He\u2019s not Al Sharpton. He has a record of achievement. He\u2019s gonna release his financial records. It\u2019s gonna show $7 billion net worth. He\u2019s saying, ‘How can you compare me to Al Sharpton when I\u2019m a proven businessman, I know what I\u2019m doing.\u2019 What do you say to this, Mr. Krauthammer?”<\/p>\n

KRAUTHAMMER: I\u2019m not comparing bank accounts. I explained what I meant by that. He\u2019s like Al Sharpton in the sense that he is slick, smooth, spouts provocative nonsense — operative word “nonsense” — which will distract any presidential debate. He says, “Oh, no, no, my real issues are OPEC, Iraq, oil, the Chinese, the economy.” I said, “All right, let\u2019s talk about that. Let\u2019s talk about your idea of seizing Libyan oil, seizing Iraqi oil and demanding $1.2 trillion worth of oil. That is a nutty idea. That\u2019s what makes you unserious.” Look, Bill, that kind of talk is the stuff you expect from a guy at a bar at closing time with slurred speech.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Trump is the equivalent of a guy at the bar, last one there, after last call with slurred speech. He\u2019s unserious. He wants to make a claim on the oil in nations that we are liberating and that we have saved. At the end of the day here the president of the United States has responded to a reality show star and called it silliness. And a part of me couldn\u2019t agree more. A pop culture icon, not an elected official, has forced the president\u2019s hand, not a journalist, not an elected official, but Big Hollywood. Somebody from the entertainment media forced the president\u2019s hand, not one of our people. Celebrity has trumped the president, his message. I was just watching PMSNBC during the break, and Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, was talking to their White House babe, Savannah Guthrie and they heard that when Obama announced his presser today, he\u2019s gonna be coming out and talking about the shift at the Pentagon and the CIA. Petraeus is going to the CIA. You want to talk about marginalizing somebody, that\u2019s taking him out of the loop. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re afraid of Petraeus being somebody\u2019s veep. That\u2019s what they\u2019re afraid of. So put Petraeus in the regime. He\u2019s a loyal guy, he goes there. Gates has wanted out of defense for who knows how long. Panetta doesn\u2019t like watching CNN, which is apparently what the Director of Central Intelligence does these days. Well, that\u2019s what he said. He said he found out that something that happened in Egypt \u2019cause he saw it on CNN. And I kind of agree with Panetta, if my job was watching CNN all day I\u2019d want a change, too. So Panetta is being sent over to the Pentagon; Petraeus to CIA. That\u2019s what they thought Obama was gonna come out and start talking about. Instead, they were shocked that Obama came out to talk about the birth certificate thing. They couldn\u2019t believe it. And the reason is because they don\u2019t think it\u2019s been an issue from the get-go, why should Obama care, why should he respond to this? Their view was, why elevate Trump here? <\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s important to point out I have a modicum of experience with this, folks. Presidents, even in a circumstance like this, should be so far above people like Trump. I couldn\u2019t believe the first White House Correspondents Dinner when Clinton starts telling that joke about me trying to portray me as a racist. I mean I understood his objective, but why even be concerned? Flying into St. Louis on Air Force One in the early nineties, he\u2019s talking to the morning show team complaining about me that when their show finishes I\u2019m gonna have three hours uninterrupted without a truth detector. This is the president of the United States complaining about me, and at the time James Carville was pulling what little hair he has left out. (imitating Carville) “It ain\u2019t Limbaugh. Limbaugh not your problem. Limbaugh not running for office.” <\/p>\n

What are the similarities? I think the similarities psychologically are that Clinton and Obama both have this characteristic they want to be loved. Clinton\u2019s the kind of guy that could walk into a room with a hundred people and find the one person that doesn\u2019t like him and spend the whole night trying to change his mind rather than revel with the 99 people who do love him. Lot of people like that. But what a sad state of affairs. The president of the United States calls a press conference to announce that he was born in the United States. Mr. Transparency. Here the press is waiting for the latest ho-hum about shifts at the top at CIA and the Pentagon. And Mr. Transparency is forced to submit a simple document that every American has, forced to address silliness by a reality television star on a day when Bernanke is talking to the press, Petraeus is being nominated to head the CIA, Panetta\u2019s going over to the Pentagon, gasoline is unaffordable, fiscal policy is in shambles, and he calls a presser to talk about, (imitating Obama) “Yeah, I was born here, here\u2019s my birth certificate. We gotta get the silliness out of the way.” <\/p>\n

You want to talk about silliness, Obama just turned the White House communications into a circus, if you ask me. We\u2019ve got Entertainment Tonight at nine a.m. We got Access Hollywood at 9:30. We got E Entertainment television at ten a.m. TMZ on steroids. Country\u2019s going to hell in a handbasket, Obama\u2019s responded to Trump more directly than he\u2019s responded to Paul Ryan or John Boehner. The only thing that would have made Obama look more ridiculous today would be if he had made that statement in the press conference in front of those fake Greek columns that he used in Denver at his acceptance speech. This is phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 roller shtick circus sideshow politics. And it\u2019s fun to watch. It is fun to watch. Maybe the birth certificate controversy was cutting into Obama\u2019s fundraising. Hell, I don\u2019t know. But something made this happen today. <\/p>\n

My commonsense best guess is it has to be poll-driven, and fundraising is what he\u2019s concentrating on at the moment. Frankly, folks, the two things about this that really shocked me the most, one, that Obama was born at all. I thought it was a miraculous conception. And secondly, that his parents are actually mortals. Those are the two things I\u2019ve really had a tough time believing. I mean here they presented this guy as The Messiah, as The One, and those people aren\u2019t born. They just descend from the heavens.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. Very true. Very, very true, Snerdley. I\u2019ll say it again: At the end of all of this, the most shocking thing I learned today so that Obama was actually born. I\u2019ll tell you something else about this that\u2019s starting to grate on me, and that is this notion of “seriousness” and who is and who isn\u2019t. I, for one — and I\u2019m a lunch pail guy here, folks. People don\u2019t understand this. This job is a lunch pail job. You know, I haven\u2019t had a “power lunch” in 25 years. You know, you gotta be here. There\u2019s no being five minutes late; there\u2019s no any of this. I\u2019m just person from the middle of the country. I did not go to college or any of that stuff. I\u2019m as close to average American as you can get, and this whole notion of Obama is a serious figure offends my sensibilities. <\/p>\n

Why is he serious? Because he can speak? Because he has a university resume that\u2019s appealing or approved by people who define who\u2019s serious? What about his intelligence? How smart is this guy? What does he know? I don\u2019t believe if Barack Obama had a dream for a product to bring to market, I don\u2019t think he\u2019d have the slightest idea how to bring a product to marketplace. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s got the slightest understanding. He\u2019s got a lot of resentment for it, but I don\u2019t think he has the slightest understanding of how wealth is created. He just resents it when it is. <\/p>\n

The guy is single-handedly destroying the United States economy, and we want to sit here and applaud because Obama\u2019s a “serious component of our politics.” Serious? That\u2019s just another word for “elitist,” if you ask me. So somebody\u2019s “serious” and somebody\u2019s “not serious.” Obviously “not serious” is a crude, unsophisticated rube, not qualified to be a member of the Ruling Class. So I guess in that context I\u2019m not “serious.” I wouldn\u2019t be considered “serious.” What makes Obama “serious”? “Well, look what he\u2019s done to our health care, Rush.” Exactly! Look what he\u2019s done to our health care! “Well, it\u2019s a legitimate political argument, Rush. It\u2019s a legitimate political view, socialism.” <\/p>\n

Yeah, it deserves to be defeated, for crying out loud, not applauded as legitimate! It hurts people! So here\u2019s Trump, a pop icon, dragging down the president to his level. But he\u2019s not because Obama\u2019s a pop icon at the same time. Here\u2019s a dirty little secret: What was Obama with those staged, black canvas little appearances with the Greek columns and all of that? The first black president icon who offered nothing but a weak song entitled Hope and Change. We\u2019ve got audio sound bites of the learned members of the Ruling Class admitting, they don\u2019t know who he is, they don\u2019t know what he stands for, they don\u2019t know what books he\u2019s read.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw say it, and he gets elected. He\u2019s a blank slate. You can make him whatever you want him to be. The “Magic Negro,” all of these things that other people created. He\u2019s a pop icon, but he does not have a successful reality show. Well, maybe he does. He probably could get sponsors for this, too. Sure! Sure! No question Obama responds to Trump more than Ryan. That\u2019s his territory. He wants no part of Paul Ryan. When he did match up with Ryan he was as empty as his lyrical campaign when they went into the details on Obamacare. He wants no part of Paul Ryan. <\/p>\n

He can\u2019t keep up with Paul Ryan and he doesn\u2019t want to hear what Paul Ryan has to say. What did Obama tell the GOP when they first met him early in his term. They had the Republican and Democrat leadership up to the White House within the first couple of weeks. He said, “Don\u2019t listen to Rush Limbaugh if you want to get anything done. That\u2019s not how things get done here. You don\u2019t listen to Rush Limbaugh.” So one of his first messages was to attack a pop icon like Rush Limbaugh. Obama is a pop icon! He\u2019s looked at as a pop icon even by his supporters. Yet Trump and Obama, they\u2019re on the same level in so many ways. The difference is Trump hasn\u2019t ruined the economy. <\/p>\n

But Trump isn\u2019t “serious.” I forget. (sigh) Trump\u2019s not “serious.” How many jobs has he created? Well, it\u2019s in the thousands. How many has Obama destroyed? But Obama\u2019s “serious.” Obama is a genuine intellect. Yeah, maybe Obama does have a reality show. His writers aren\u2019t unionized, either. Yeah, I would love to see Obama\u2019s grades in economics. I\u2019d love to see them. The only way this guy\u2019s gets good grades in economics is if he\u2019s simply repeating the Marxist crap that he\u2019s been taught. But if you get an A in Marxism, what does that mean. Is that helpful? Is that useful? <\/p>\n

“Hey, Mom! Hey, it\u2019s Barack on the phone. Yeah, I got an A here at Harvard in Marxism. Yeah, we\u2019re on the way.” Yeah, that\u2019s “serious.” “Yeah, after that we\u2019re gonna look at Hegel and then Ingalls. I\u2019m gonna have this Marx guy down pat so the day ever comes I have a chance to ruin America I can — ha! — and people will love me while I\u2019m doing it. No, Mom, I can\u2019t come home. I gotta work on being serious.” Serious: An A in Marxism, A-plus in socialism. Yeah, let\u2019s see the grades. They\u2019re not just academic. We all know that he went to Harvard, Columbia, Harvard Law School. That was supposed to be enough for us not to worry that he had no real life experience. It was supposed to cover for real life experience. Kinda doesn\u2019t work that way, does it?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Saginaw, Michigan, Jeffrey, welcome to the program. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. This is Jeff. I want to say mega dittos. I\u2019ve been listening to you since Sacramento, California. I live in Michigan now. But it\u2019s because of you that people like me who used to be Teamster Democrats are now strong Republicans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You are courageous. There are two things I wanted to tell you. (sigh) In 1774, John Adams wrote General Horatio Gates. He said, “If we finally fail in this great and glorious contest, it will be by bewildering ourselves and groping for the middle ground,” and I think (sigh) that John Adams hit the nail on the head. We can\u2019t… (sigh) We can\u2019t be Milquetoast RINO Republicans. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. <\/p>\n

CALLER: We have to stand for what\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right, and being “serious” and all this is just a euphemism for being moderate and non-confrontational and reaching for the middle ground, exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My second point was is that (sigh) Obama\u2019s pretty easy to beat, he\u2019s painted himself into a corner, and we have an arsenal of facts to use against him but we have to hold his feet to the fire and make him take ownership for his behavior. The first thing I would do — and I think this is really important, remembering that he\u2019s just a demagogic ideologue — is to insist that Congress restore the $500 billion back to Medicare that he in his infinite wisdom took and assigned to Medicaid. By doing that, my hunch is that he would veto it, but that\u2019s okay, because that would infuriate about 99% of all senior citizens. Now, the other thing he could do is say, “Okay, let\u2019s go along with it and try to appease them,” and he would infuriate his base either way we went. And even if he does sign it into law, it\u2019s still our bill, and we can make him take ownership and take that all the way to November, saying, “Hey, this is…” It\u2019s a win-win for us, no matter what. “This is our bill. We came up with this, and you just signed it. It\u2019s not yours.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: You may have a point here because the polling data suggests that the elderly are the largest supporters of the Ryan plan.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely, and there you have it. By having Congress restore that money to Medicare where it came from, it would make all of us heroes. Now, if he signs the bill, yeah, okay. But he\u2019ll really anger his base.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it would also highlight the fact that he cut it!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly! Exactly. You can\u2019t win. That\u2019s my point. He\u2019s easy to beat. He\u2019s a demagogic ideologue. It\u2019s what he\u2019s always been, it\u2019s what he\u2019ll always be, and you can beat that easy but you\u2019ve got to hold the truth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something. For me it just boils to something this simple: If we can\u2019t beat socialist-Marxist policies then we may as well check it out anyway. What the heck, folks? Where is the smart money? Who are these people that say we can\u2019t beat these policies? You know, if running against Obama makes \u2019em nervous — and I can understand how members of the Ruling Class would be uncomfortable going against such a “well-spoken” candidate. If you want the quintessential, perfect model of an Ivy League grad, Obama\u2019s it. The cool demeanor, the arrogant condescension in his manner of speaking, his articulation. <\/p>\n

Yeah, if that\u2019s what impresses you — and if it also intimidates you, \u2019cause you really don\u2019t want to destroy those kind of personalities \u2019cause that\u2019s what you admire; you admire well-spoken Ivy League types, and going after Obama, that would be like going after all of us who aspire to the same things — okay. You don\u2019t want to go after Obama personally? Fine. Can\u2019t you find it in yourself to oppose the destruction of the US economy? Can you find it somewhere in yourselves to stand up for the creation of private sector jobs? <\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t want to go after Obama personally, can you see the danger in Obama policies which are destroying the futures of people in this country not yet conceived, much less born? Yeah, you may not want to go after Obama because he\u2019s just so “perfect,” but for crying out loud, where is it written these policies can\u2019t be beaten? If you\u2019re gonna tell me the policies can\u2019t be beaten because of Obama the personality, then I don\u2019t want to hear one more thing about how Trump is a pop culture icon and “not serious,” because that\u2019s what you\u2019re telling me. If you\u2019re telling me we can\u2019t beat Obama because of his personality, then we\u2019re not even talking about serious politics here. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re talking about high school clique-ism. I don\u2019t understand it. Intellectually I don\u2019t understand this rigmarole that this agenda, that this track record is untouchable. This could force me to go insane, to make me to believe this, to try to sit me down and make people explain this to me in a way that I should agree with it? It\u2019s patently absurd. And don\u2019t for a minute think that some of the opposition of Trump isn\u2019t simply based on the fact that he\u2019s not from Washington. He doesn\u2019t quite fit the mold. I mean, folks, look… Don\u2019t doubt me on this. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a columnist at the New York Times and you actually write that you are mesmerized by the “crease” in some politician\u2019s slacks, and then you say has a gonna be elected president and he\u2019s gonna be a damn good one, I submit you are a fool, a shallow bupkis, and you want to be taken seriously above all else? We\u2019re talking the essence of pop culture icon, the essence of idolatry, the essence of star-screwer is to say, “I love the crease in his pants! He\u2019s gonna be a great president!” That\u2019s asinine! That\u2019s insultingly unintelligent and it\u2019s just… As Dawn would say, “It\u2019s very sad,” but that\u2019s David Brooks of the New York Times. <\/p>\n

The crease in Obama\u2019s pants, he was mesmerized by it, struck by it, and said, “He\u2019s gonna be a great president,” and Trump is “not serious”?<\/p>\n

David Brooks, that\u2019s “serious.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, folks, I\u2019ll tell you, I\u2019m deeply fascinated by this whole notion of what\u2019s smart and what\u2019s “serious,” and I think all this talk of “serious,” that\u2019s the new word replacing gravitas, is what it is. But, you know, Dan Jenkins once wrote that if baseball was half as complicated as the baseball writers make it sound, the average player couldn\u2019t play it. He wasn\u2019t smart enough to. And I\u2019ve often thought the same thing about football. If football were as complicated as all of these analysts make it seem, believe me, the average player couldn\u2019t figure it out. The average player could not memorize and understand the playbook if it\u2019s that complicated. <\/p>\n

Now, follow me on this. Here\u2019s the thing. If Obama is so smart, isn\u2019t two and a half years enough time to figure out it isn\u2019t working? That is if his intentions are honorable, if he really wants a growing economy, if he really wants new jobs, isn\u2019t two and a half years of this ridiculousness enough to show that it\u2019s not the right way to do it? Isn\u2019t two and a half years enough time to realize that you\u2019re on the wrong path? Hint: This is why some of us believe all this is on purpose. There\u2019s no indication of smartness in anything he tries to do. He doubles down on his failures. Now, speaking of Obama\u2019s academic record, he attended Harvard Law School at the height of something that it was promoting, education technique or a theory. It was called critical legal studies. Critical legal studies was in its ascendancy at Harvard Law when Obama was there. You can look it up. Just Google critical legal studies. It is out and out Marxism. <\/p>\n

In a nutshell, critical legal studies claims that law is just politics by other means. It is a way for the rich to keep the poor working man down and deny him opportunities for prosperity. That is what Obama was taught at Harvard and based on what he believes and is doing it looks to me like he probably did get good grades. Look it up if you want. Critical legal studies. Law is just politics by other means. You can even turn it around. Politics is just law by other means. But I mean look at what they do. What has happened? You can\u2019t get your accomplishments done in the legislative body, you put judges that are gonna write law on your court system. When Obama proposes taxes on millionaires and billionaires and says the starting point\u2019s $200,000 a year, what he is doing is establishing a tax policy on millions and millions of small businesses, the express purpose of which is to prevent them from acquiring wealth. Their wealth is what is being taxed. <\/p>\n

Millionaires, genuine millionaires and billionaires, they don\u2019t have income. They don\u2019t have wage income. They pay capital gains rates, 15% or what have you. The 36% rate, the 39% rate. They may have a salary of a hundred grand that their sub-S pays them or what have you, but their wealth is not being taxed. There is no wealth tax in America yet, but there\u2019s an income tax and when you want to start taxing people at 200, 250 grand at 40%, small-business people. And what you\u2019re saying is, “You\u2019re gonna get rich over my dead body. You\u2019re gonna acquire wealth over my dead body.” It\u2019s a way for the truly rich to keep everybody else serfs. That\u2019s what Obama was taught, critical legal studies at Harvard. <\/p>\n

Remember, I\u2019ve told you when I was in Sacramento, 1985, in Playboy magazine William F. Buckley Jr. had a long article entitled, “Redefining Smart.” How do you gauge it anymore? There\u2019s so much knowledge that\u2019s it\u2019s impossible to know everything. And he actually went back and found the name of somebody in that era in human history where it was possible to know everything that was known. And those days of course are long gone. <\/p>\n

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