{"id":18947,"date":"2011-05-11T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:20:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:20:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:20:18","slug":"thoughts_on_common_s_wh_invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/11\/thoughts_on_common_s_wh_invite\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Common\u2019s WH Invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, just a few comments on this hip-hopper, the rapper, Common. Apparently there\u2019s some poetry reading at the White House that Moochelle Obama is sponsoring, and they got this guy Common showing up. Now, Common is an artiste. That\u2019s what you must know, he\u2019s an artist. He\u2019s also a member of Reverend Wright\u2019s church. He\u2019s a big fan of Reverend Wright. In fact, I think I have a sound bite here of Mr. Common saying so. Yes. Audio sound bite number 23. This is from May of three years ago, 2008 during an interview to HipHollywood.com, the rapper-poet Common &#8212; by the way, birth name is Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. &#8212; he said this about the former pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ, Pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright.<\/p>\n<p>COMMON: Reverend Wright is an intelligent, strong individual, a great man and a conduit of love, man, I &#8212; and I know that from being in his pew since I was eight years old. Every Sunday my mom had me at that church, so I know, you know, from what he\u2019s helped shape me to be, that he was always preaching about love. And when he speaks about the government, he\u2019s speaking about situations that our present people and situations that are bringing negative things onto people. Reverend Wright is all good with me, and I\u2019m &#8212; you know, I\u2019m a full supporter of him and definitely a supporter of Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125114.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: Okay, now, in addition to being an artiste and an avid advocate of Reverend Wright, he\u2019s also a rapper and he has written poems and songs in support of cop killers, and this has angered New Jersey police officer organizations and a lot of other people as well, asking, why would this guy be invited to an arts thing at the White House? Not the question. The question is, why wouldn\u2019t he be? I\u2019m kinda surprised that people are surprised. <\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, in all sincerity here, for two and a half, three years, we here at the EIB Network, which means me, \u2019cause I\u2019m the only one that has access to the Golden EIB Microphone, been trying to tell you that there are various things that animate the Obamas. You know, Moochelle has her own angers and rages. She\u2019s not hidden them. First time she was ever proud of her country was when Barack was running for president. We know that Barack himself has some chip on his shoulder about this country. You know my theory about it, that he doesn\u2019t think there\u2019s anything particularly special or exceptional here, that we are a colonialist or imperialist nation, which has oppressed the poor. We\u2019ve stolen resources from lesser nations around the world to enrich ourselves, that we have a slave past. <\/p>\n<p>From his view, what he\u2019s been taught, how he\u2019s been mentored, there\u2019s nothing particularly special about this country. In fact, this country needs to be taken down a peg or two. This country needs to find out what it feels like to be somebody other than the United States of America. It\u2019s time that we find out what it feels like to be treated by us. And it\u2019s hard for a lot of people to believe this. We think this is the greatest country ever, blessed, as it were, by God. And we certainly don\u2019t want to believe that somebody who\u2019s been elected president doesn\u2019t see it that way. But they do. <\/p>\n<p>Obama campaigned with this guy. Common was out there on the campaign trial. Why wouldn\u2019t he be invited? Eric Holder, in this Justice Department, has made certain that the New Black Panthers are not gonna be tried. We pointed out during the campaign, where there is race in this country, this regime and the Democrat Party are the ones who inject it, and they\u2019re the ones who profit from it, or try to. This is not his first White House visit. Our old buddy Common\u2019s been there before. So he\u2019s got a song about happily killing a cop. He supports a cop killer. Actually, two of them. One of them has now taken up refuge in Cuber and Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Philadelphia cop killer. <\/p>\n<p>So I mean the real question is how many songs by Common do Obama and Holder have on their iPods? Anybody want to take a wild guess? (interruption) Oh, you don\u2019t think they have songs by this guy on their iPods? I wonder if the iPod that Obama gave Queen Elizabeth had any Common tunes on it. Well, it contained a lot of his speeches. We know that. I think he shared some of his favorite music with her. I\u2019m not sure about that. But Michelle and Obama had to know Common from the church days. Reverend Wright was Common\u2019s spiritual mentor, too. The only difference between Common and Obama in this regard is that Common proudly admits having heard the sermons. Obama denies having heard Reverend Wright\u2019s sermons. So the real question is not that he would be invited, but why wouldn\u2019t he be? <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, I didn\u2019t mention it, but I will mention it now. Mr. Common, the rapper, also suggested that President Bush should be set afire, that George W. Bush should be set on fire. And he will read poetry in the White House and maybe do some rap tunes, to no doubt thundering applause. The real question is why wouldn\u2019t he be invited? After all, look what these poor people inherited from Bush.<\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Okay, just a few comments on this hip-hopper, the rapper, Common. 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