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RUSH: They\u2019ve called a truce. Supposedly called a truce here on the Uncivil War between Barack Obama and the Clintons. Remember, it\u2019s two against one, folks. Poor Obama, the black guy, being ganged up on by an ex-president and a sitting president, both with the same last name. Greetings, great to have you back, it\u2019s Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network. Here we are, behind the Golden EIB Microphone, with three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead. Some truce. The Drive-Bys are obsessed with this. This is so fabulous to see. This race war that has — and, by the way, it\u2019s not just about race. It\u2019s about drugs. They\u2019re not letting that one die. Bill Clinton is out there doing his impersonation of Joseph McCarthy. He\u2019s holding up a piece of paper, goes on a radio show (doing Clinton impression), ‘I got here a list, and I got a list here of 80 charges, 80 things that Obama\u2019s been saying about my wife.\u2019 Eighty things, he\u2019s been keeping track out there. Folks, this is the dirty little secret that\u2019s surfacing, and nobody likes it on the Democrat side of the aisle. They are obsessed with race; heir racism and their sexism has surfaced for one and all to see. It\u2019s a matter of people like us pointing it out here and putting it all in its proper perspective which we will do on the program today. <\/p>\n

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Now, in addition to the truce, the so-called truce, which I don\u2019t believe. I don\u2019t think there is a truce. The Uncivil War between Obama and the Clintons is not the only dust-up that\u2019s happening out there. AP: ‘The Nevada caucuses are becoming a proxy for the racially tinged fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, with Barack Obama\u2019s campaign criticizing Hillary Rodham Clinton\u2019s allies for a lawsuit that could prevent some minorities from participating. On Friday, six Democrats and a teachers union connected to Clinton filed a lawsuit claiming the rules enabling Las Vegas Strip waitresses, dishwashers and bellhops to caucus inside nine resorts violate state law and federal equal protection guarantees. Other caucus-goers lack the same access, the suit argues. The Clinton campaign has said it\u2019s not involved in the lawsuit. The Obama campaign says it may not be a coincidence that Clinton\u2019s allies are the plaintiffs.\u2019 There are no coincidences with the Clintons. <\/p>\n

Now, this is pretty funny, too, because this is an ugly mess out there. The Democrat Party in Nevada let the casino workers caucus at their work sites. In the Bellagio, for example, a 30,000-square-foot ballroom will be used, and all the employees will be able to vote and caucus in there rather than having to go back to their homes and this sort of thing. Now, the interesting thing about this, the Democrat machine thought that this was great when Hillary was thought to get union endorsements, but now that the teachers union is suing to get to have the caucus at their place of business of work, because these unions, most of them, endorsed Obama. So the Clintons are very, very upset about this, and they\u2019re taking notes, ladies and gentlemen. Clinton, Inc. is striking back here while a supposed truce is going on in the Uncivil War. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right, we have a ‘ceasefire\u2019 in the Uncivil War. This is shades of Hamas and Hezbollah! Now, remember, folks, remember what a ceasefire is. A ceasefire is not an end to the war. A ceasefire exists for one reason: It\u2019s a chance for the losing side to rearm. The losing side calls a truce, calls a ceasefire, and everybody goes, ‘Awww, isn\u2019t it wonderful? They want to stop fighting. They want to stop arguing. They want to get back to the issues.\u2019 Meanwhile, in the war room at Clinton, Inc., they are simply rearming. As of this moment in time, the Clintons are on the losing side: Tuesday, January 15th, 2008. So the Clintons want a ceasefire? And all the Uncle Bills agree. You know what an Uncle Bill is? The folks who used to toss around the label ‘Uncle Tom.\u2019 There\u2019s a bunch of Uncle Bills: black guys siding with the Clintons, abandoning their own race. This is just beautiful to see, folks. Racial solidarity has long been one of the traditions of the Democrat Party. Now, all of a sudden, the fissures are wide open. The boils have been lanced. The pus is oozing out all over the Democrat Party. It\u2019s not pretty. Black people are lining up alongside their various allegiances to Obama or to Clinton — and these Uncle Bills, these Uncle Toms, are selling out to Uncle Bill. <\/p>\n

Make that Uncle Bill and Aunt Hillary, by the way, because they\u2019re a tag-team. Even a casual observer, ladies and gentlemen, cannot help notice the ceasefire seems to be about race, but not about drugs. The Clinton, Inc., war room continues to get this drug story about Obama into the Drive-By Media — and notice nobody is asking Mrs. Clinton about this. I mean Bill Clinton said they didn\u2019t inhale. Somebody needs to ask Hillary: ‘Did you inhale?\u2019 The drug story is a one-sided angle. It\u2019s all being aimed at Obama, and, of course, it\u2019s not a mystery. He wrote about it in his book. It\u2019s their own talking point, by the way, this drug business. Don\u2019t forget, the very words that Bill Shaheen, the national cochair of Hillary\u2019s campaign in New Hampshire, was told to say before he was told to resign: ‘You know the Republicans are going to bring this into the campaign. We had better face it now.\u2019 It\u2019s a standard Clinton, Inc., line. ‘You know Republicans are going to bring this up.\u2019 So, as far as Clinton, Inc. were concerned and their minion Bill Shaheen, they were doing a public service for the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n

No, no, no! They weren\u2019t attacking Obama. They knew that the Republicans would do it, and so they wanted to get it over and done with before the general election. Now, that must indicate a fear that Obama might win. Of course Shaheen and the Clintons are not trying to help Obama win, so it was not what they tried to claim it was, a public service. They\u2019re simply out there trying to destroy the guy. Once again, Democrat machine politics destroying an upstart black candidate. It\u2019s not the first time, won\u2019t be the last. What I hope happens here is that people on the Democrat side see what\u2019s happening. For all of these years, the Democrat Party has promised the oppressed and discriminated against African-American population, ‘Stick with us, boys, and you\u2019re going to end up in a seat of power. You\u2019re going to have racial harmony. You\u2019re going to have economic prosperity. We\u2019re going to get you past those mean Republicans who keep sitting on you and stomping you down. <\/p>\n

‘We\u2019re going to make sure that you get what is yours. We\u2019re going to make sure that you get fairness. We\u2019re going to make sure that you get equality.\u2019 Yet when one of these people is an upstart like Obama actually gets serious about it and says, ‘Okay, I\u2019ll take you up on it,\u2019 guess what happens? The Democrat machine literally tries to destroy the guy. You\u2019ve got to see it! You\u2019d think they would see it. But, look, there\u2019s this thing called denial, ladies and gentlemen. We all have it. We deny our own shortcomings; we blame \u2019em on other people. These people on the Democrat side, the African-American population, have been so imbued with the glory and the greatness and the salvation and the promises of the Democrat Party machine that it\u2019s hard for a couple of instances to wipe 50 years of a slate clean. But the longer this continues, the greater the odds that some people are going to notice this. I don\u2019t know how you can\u2019t. <\/p>\n

Remember, now, what I told you. I want to keep hammering this. The Democrat machine, they\u2019re in chaos over there. I know a lot of you people thought I was crazy when I said the Democrats are in chaos, particularly the Clintons after New Hampshire. ‘Why, Rush, they just won. They won big. What do you mean, chaos?\u2019 This race war, this Uncivil War, truce or no truce, is just one small example of the chaos they face. See, they are the real racists; they are the real sexists, but they think that either one of them, Mrs. Clinton or Barack, can be beaten by us because we cheat, because we\u2019re mean. We are the racists and sexists, they believe, and they think we have perfected destroying people on that basis while, in fact, Republicans aren\u2019t even commenting on this. It\u2019s all Democrats, all race, all the time, and if you look at the machine side of this, the Clinton side, they are literally trying to destroy the legitimate first black American with a chance to win the presidency. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right, how long is the ceasefire going to hold, ladies and gentlemen? For how long? ‘Til the next poll comes out. By the way, I love the name ‘Drive-Bys,\u2019 but I\u2019ve got a subname for them: ‘the Poll-It Bureau.\u2019 All they are is a bunch of pollsters! Every bit of news they make now comes via poll. So we have the Drive-Bys and the Central Committee of the Poll-It Bureau. P-o-l-l it. Poll-It Bureau. Now, ‘The talk of drugs,\u2019 before we get to the audio sound bites, ‘Barack Obama\u2019s campaign has dismissed as not believable a prominent Hillary Clinton backer\u2019s tortured explanation for seeming to inject Obama\u2019s youthful drug use into the campaign, and called it troubling that Clinton has not done more to distance herself from the remark.\u2019 Bill Clinton, Uncle Bill, ‘was drawn into the controversy on Monday in appearances on black radio talk shows. He told one host, Ronald Barton, that the impolitic remarks by supporters, ‘You know, Ronald, it\u2019s something just happens out there, happened in politics. I think it\u2019s best to not overreact to all this. These things happen.” <\/p>\n

They just happen? Accusing your opponent of drug use and perhaps selling drugs? These things just happen? Have we forgotten what all happened here? Bill Shaheen resigned after saying, ‘The Republicans are not going to give up without a fight. One of the things they\u2019re certainly going to jump on is Obama\u2019s drug use.\u2019 Then he alluded to the fact that he might be selling drugs. Then the Clinton pollster, Mark Penn, added kerosene to all this by saying, ‘cocaine use,\u2019 when on Hardball, talking about the Shaheen incident. He said, ‘Well, I think we made clear that the issue related to cocaine is not something the campaign was in any way raising,\u2019 thereby mentioning it again! ‘Clinton officials were pressed on Monday for explanations, why the drug issue keeps being blurted out,\u2019 and, of course, Bill Clinton (Clinton Impression), ‘I mean, these things, they just happen. They just happen. It\u2019s part of the campaign. It\u2019s just a coincidence out there. The only guy that knows it\u2019s not a coincidence is Limbaugh. Limbaugh understands that nothing that went on is coincidence. But I can fool all the rest of you people, especially you black talk show hosts. You\u2019re so eager to have me, I have you eating out of my hand. I have you believing whatever I say, because you know that I was the first black president and this Obama guy is a fake, and he\u2019s a pretender, and he\u2019s a phony, and you\u2019re going to help us destroy the guy.\u2019 (sigh) Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, Monday night the Drive-Bys in panic because they know that the Uncivil War could tear their party apart. So they decided that the truce had been called, and I\u2019m sure their theory is if they say it enough, it will be true. Here is a montage.<\/p>\n

SMITH: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton called for a truce. <\/p>\n

CROWLEY: …call for a truce. <\/p>\n

OLBERMANN: ..calls for truce. <\/p>\n

SHARPTON: …the truce…<\/p>\n

CHETRY: …calling a truce. <\/p>\n

COLLINS: The two front-runners look for a truce. <\/p>\n

GEIST: They called a truce in that war. <\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: …call a truce… <\/p>\n

KILMEADE: Calling a truce? <\/p>\n

COOPER: Tonight, a call for a truce. <\/p>\n

RUSH: It was all over the Drive-Bys. It\u2019s amazing how this happens. It just never ceases to amaze me. Now, here\u2019s the Obama statement that the Drive-Bys say means that there is a ‘truce.\u2019 This was in Reno, Nevada, yesterday at the press conference. Here\u2019s what Obama said.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I may disagree with Senator Clinton or Senator Edwards on how to get there, but we share the same goals. We\u2019re all Democrats. We all believe in civil rights. We all believe in equal rights.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, Obama. You know you don\u2019t believe that. You don\u2019t have equal rights when the Clintons are gunning for you. You do not have civil rights. Obama, if those people in the Democrat machine were honest, they\u2019d all be getting out of the way and saying, ‘It\u2019s yours, pal! It\u2019s your turn. It is time. We have been angling for black power throughout our struggle. We have been down for the struggle with you, and it\u2019s time that we stood aside.\u2019 No way, Obama! You have fairness, equal rights with these people? They\u2019re out to destroy you, and they\u2019re using race to do it, Obama, and they\u2019re using drug use! Now, I know this is the politic thing to say, but I hope behind the scenes at Obama headquarters, they understand what\u2019s going on here, and I hope a lot of the black population of this country understands what\u2019s going on here. It\u2019s plain as day for everybody to see. It is not conservatives. It\u2019s not Republicans trying to take Barack Obama out. It is the Clinton Democrat machine, and it is not the first time, ladies and gentlemen. We\u2019ve chronicled all the examples of black candidates who have been destroyed or denied by the Clinton machine. The Clinton Hate Squad! That\u2019s what this is. Uncle Bill, Aunt Hillary, and the Clinton Hate Squad. This is pure hate. What else would you call this? Here\u2019s what Hillary had to say at an event celebrating Martin Luther King\u2019s birthday. This was yesterday in New York City.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: We may differ on minor matters, but when it comes to what is really important, we are family.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She got booed at this appearance. Nobody\u2019s buying this ‘family\u2019 stuff. You\u2019re not treating Obama like a brother, in either way you define the term. You\u2019re not treating Obama as a member of your family at all. You\u2019re treating him like an insect. (interruption) I don\u2019t know what happened to the black accent at the Martin Luther King event. You mean the, ‘I ain\u2019t no ways tired,\u2019 that black accent? I don\u2019t think she had time to use it. She got booed there. ‘Dogged by continuing racial tensions around her campaign, Hillary drew a smarting of boos on Monday when she spoke at a religiously tinged Martin Luther King, Jr., rally put together by a union organizing predominantly black security workers. The catcalls came when Clinton was introduced. Her speech drew only tepid applause compared to the boisterous ovations drawn by many of the pastors and the reverends, not to mention a hip-hop artist and a slam poet.\u2019 What\u2019s a slam poet? Tell me, what\u2019s a slam poet? (interruption) Just a poet? Yeah, but… (interruption) <\/p>\n

Okay, why do they call it a slam poet? What, does the poet slam something? Is it angry? An angry poet? (interruption) Okay, all right, angry poet. All right, fine. All these people took the podium before her. She was late being added to this event. By the way, Obama…. Now, this union endorsed her last year, Hillary Clinton, but leader Fishman ‘didn\u2019t mention her in an impassioned speech about the union\u2019s efforts to organize security workers. Obama got praise and applause at the same event.\u2019 He wasn\u2019t there, but when his name was mentioned, ‘he was roundly applauded.\u2019 More audio sound bites on the so-called truce. Here is James Clyburn. He is this head honcho of the Congressional Black Caucus is, a central figure in the Democrat primary in South Carolina. He claims that he negotiated a truce. He was on Charlie Rose last night on PBS, and Rose said, ‘What did Senator Clinton say to you or President Clinton about their case and how they feel about what has transpired in the last week while you were away?\u2019<\/p>\n

CLYBURN: I\u2019ve spoken to both of them. I think they both are very remorseful about this. I\u2019ve spoken with Senator Obama.<\/p>\n

ROSE: What did he say?<\/p>\n

CLYBURN: Senator Obama would love for this to get behind us. This gentleman has a r&eacute;sum&eacute; that all of us worked hard back in the sixties to bring about. We were working, so that the Obamas, who, by the way, is the same age, just a few months ago different between him and my daughter, Mignon.<\/p>\n

ROSE: My friend. (chuckles)<\/p>\n

CLYBURN: Your friend, absolutely. To make sure that Mignon and Barack would not have to go through the things we went through, and so I\u2019m very proud of both of them. So we ought not really have this campaign being bogged down with race or gender.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He named his daughter after a steak. You heard right. The daughter\u2019s name is Mignon. But that\u2019s beside the point, ladies and gentlemen. This was an amazing sound bite. He says he spoke to both of them, that Clinton and Obama are both very remorseful about this. I don\u2019t believe the Clinton\u2019s are remorseful. If there\u2019s any remorse in the Clinton camp over this, it is over the fear of what this might cause. There is not remorse over the fact that it\u2019s happening because it\u2019s part of the strategery. It\u2019s part of the attack from Clinton, Inc. There\u2019s no remorse about this. But look at what he said, something I just mentioned to you. ‘Obama has a r&eacute;sum&eacute; that all of us worked hard back in the sixties to bring about. We were working so that the Obamas could accomplish these kind of things, to make sure that Barack would not have to go through the things that we went through,\u2019 and yet he\u2019s going through them! Barack Obama is going through the same things that civil rights leaders say they went through 50 years ago, and who\u2019s putting Obama through those things? <\/p>\n

The Clintons! The Democrat Party machine. This is what I have always said, ladies and gentlemen, about having to be beholden to the civil rights movement. We worked hard to give Obama his r&eacute;sum&eacute;? He owes them? Obama owes the civil rights movement, not himself, for his success? Right. This is why I said Clarence Thomas posed the biggest threat to the civil rights coalition because he got there without them. It\u2019s the same thing with Dr. Thomas Sowell, same thing with Walter Williams, any conservative, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. They all got there without these prescriptions and these shepherds and these fathers of the civil rights movement. So Obama hasn\u2019t done anything on his own. He has benefited from the hard work, and the beatings, and the riots, and the hoses, and so forth, of all of the civil rights leaders that came before him. So when you are a lib Democrat and you\u2019re black, your achievements are not your own — unless they are your own, in which case they denounce you and try to destroy you. So it\u2019s not as vitriolic as Clarence Thomas faced, but believe me, it\u2019s every bit as vicious. <\/p>\n

They may not be accusing him of the things they accused Clarence Thomas of, but they are still attacking him because he\u2019s an uppity black who did not go through the civil rights movement. Clyburn can claim they did all they want for Obama, but they have nothing to do with Obama\u2019s success. So this is brilliant. This is just great, folks, for one and all to see which party, which ideology is obsessed totally with race and sex and sexual orientation — and all these other identifiers that end up putting people in groups and deny them individuality. You just heard it! You just heard Clyburn deny Obama\u2019s individuality, his own self. He could not have gotten where he is, were it not for the civil rights movement. Now, I understand what Clyburn is trying to say. Clyburn is trying to get a little dig at the Clintons but you have to read this both ways — and he\u2019s right when he says, ‘Look, we\u2019ve been working hard for this to happen, for the Democrats to allow blacks equal opportunity,\u2019 and so forth, and we don\u2019t like it being denied to them. Just don\u2019t forget: It\u2019s Mr. Clyburn, who\u2019s doing the denying. Don\u2019t forget who\u2019s doing the attacking. Don\u2019t forget who\u2019s trying to destroy Obama. It ain\u2019t us. It\u2019s the Clinton machine. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I just did some research on these slam poets out there, Mr. Snerdley. They\u2019re far more than angry. They\u2019re idiots. They\u2019re nut jobs. They\u2019re wackos. Anyway, look, the so-called truce in the Uncivil War, the Drive-Bys have called one, hopefully people will believe there is one, but the foot soldiers are still out there fighting the war. Clinton-American Charlie Rangel, also known as an Uncle Bill, my new term for Uncle Tom. Do you know what an Uncle Tom is? Betraying the race for the favor of the white master. Well, Charlie Rangel, foot soldier in the Uncivil War, a Clinton-American and an Uncle Bill, has just called African-American Barack Obama stupid. Last night on NY1\u2019s Inside City Hall, the host, Dominic Carter, spoke with Rangel about this recent battle over race between Hillary Clinton and Obama. Carter said, ‘Barack Obama said Hillary Clinton\u2019s words baffled him. What about that, Congressman Rangel?\u2019<\/p>\n

RANGEL: How race got into this thing is because Obama said race. But it\u2019s nothing that Hillary Clinton has said that baffles me. I would challenge anybody to belittle the contribution that Dr. King has made to the world, to our country, to civil rights, and to the Voting Rights Act. But for him to suggest that Dr. King could have signed that act is absolutely stupid. It\u2019s absolutely dumb to infer that Dr. King, alone, passed the legislation and signed it into law. So what\u2019s the discrepancy? What did Senator Obama mean by injecting race? I don\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa! So Clinton foot soldier and Uncle Bill, Charlie Rangel, calls Obama stupid and then asks what he means by injecting race into this. He didn\u2019t! Obama\u2019s been trying to take the high road for so long now that he owns it. Obama is sitting here getting hit from all sides, and he\u2019s trying to take the high road in reacting to this stuff. So now we got black-on-black crime in the Democrat presidential primaries, and the black-on-black criminals are inspired by the Clinton machine, Uncle Bills, the foot soldiers in the Uncivil War, while the truce goes on, they\u2019re still out fighting the battles. Now, pretruce, before the so-called truce, Obama used a word that he learned from the Reverend Jackson to describe the Clinton camp. Last night, NBC\u2019s Nightly News.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I think that there\u2019s some intentionality on the part of the Clinton campaign to knock us off message.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Some ‘intentionality,\u2019 that word coined and now in the street dictionary, thanks to the Reverend Jackson. But the point is that Obama, what he\u2019s saying is, ‘Of course they\u2019re putting race stuff in this, of course they\u2019re attacking me. They\u2019re trying to get me off message. But I\u2019m not going to go off message.\u2019 This debate, by the way, continued on the NewsHour last night on PBS, John Lewis and Reverend Lowery, Joseph Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. This campaign is ripping the Democrat Party coalition to shreds here. You\u2019ve got blacks siding against blacks. Meanwhile, you have a black candidate — I always thought — look, of all groups, political groups in this country, we are told, and the Democrat Party reacts and plans on the basis that the black vote in this country is monolithic, that black thought in this country is monolithic, that it\u2019s just a few renegades who vote for Republicans. Hell, 92% of black vote usually goes for Democrats in presidential election years. So they\u2019ve succeeded in portraying the renegades as a bunch of kooks, as a bunch of Uncle Toms, so forth and so on. But now the exact opposite is on display. Now we have apparently a price to be paid by Obama for not being part of the monolithic group of people and using monolithic thought, because the Clintons probably think that in a fair and just world he\u2019d get out of the way for them.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: On this Uncivil War and the so-called truce, I have one comment I would like to add to the contretemps that is happening in Nevada. You know, the unions that have endorsed Obama have been permitted to caucus where they work in ballrooms at nine different casinos and resorts, and Mrs. Clinton is suing! The Clinton campaign, Clinton supporters are suing to cancel this because it\u2019s not fair to other caucus-goers. Now, who are these people? Who are these people the Clinton camp is attempting to disenfranchise? These are union workers. These are the ‘little people\u2019 in the casinos. These are the dishwashers. These are single mothers, ladies and gentlemen. The Clinton camp is attempting to disenfranchise single mothers, poor women. They have to leave their babies at home or in daycare. They are Hispanic in many cases. They are black. They are struggling against life\u2019s odds. Look at who they are surrounded by? They are surrounded by immense wealth, opulent casinos, services that these union members know they will never be able to use because they will never be able to afford them. <\/p>\n

Who are these people? The little people! They are the servants and the slaves of the people who can afford to go to Las Vegas. All they want to do is caucus, and Mrs. Clinton\u2019s camp, her supporters, are attempting to disenfranchise these little people. It\u2019s not just the race war that\u2019s happening here, the Uncivil War. The Clintons are loaded for bear to take out anybody. It doesn\u2019t matter how big, how small, how rich, how poor, what color. This is Clinton, Inc., and the Clinton machine and the War Against the Poor! They\u2019re running a hate campaign against Obama — a hate campaign composed of charges of racism and drug selling and use, and now they\u2019re running a campaign against the poor, the War Against the Poor in Las Vegas. Many of these workers, as I say, are single women who have to leave their babies who knows with who? And Hillary does not tip these people. We all know this from Iowa and the diner. Not only does she not tip them, she wants now to rob them of their right to vote in the Nevada caucus — and these are the people who claim to stand up for the little guy and to protect the little guy against people like the Clintons! <\/p>\n

But the Clintons, you see, have a special license. They can do whatever they want to whoever they want in order to get their power. It\u2019s on display for one and all to see. All right, here\u2019s The Politico. I just want to go briefly through these headlines and the central points raised in these stories. ‘The race card has been dealt. It\u2019s hard not to look back to 1988, where the Reverend Jackson won the Michigan caucuses. TIME Magazine put him on the cover with a single word: ‘Jackson?\u2019 And Dan Rather said Jackson would become the front-runner for the Democrat nomination. He never won another major contest. The possibility of Jackson actually becoming the Democrat nominee was more than enough to scare voters into the arms of his opponent.\u2019 This story makes the case that Hillary knows that some people won\u2019t vote for Obama because he\u2019s black, shades of the Reverend Jackson in 1988. Here\u2019s how The Politico describes it. ‘Although she doesn\u2019t say it, her campaign knows that just as there are some people that will vote for Obama because he is black, there are some people who will never vote for him for the same reason,\u2019 and that gives the Clintons cover, because once again, they\u2019re just trying to save the party. <\/p>\n

Then the Washington Post, an editorial: ‘Race in the Race: Stop the Distortions and the Innuendo.\u2019 Their basic point of this editorial is comical. ‘Race is an important subject for debate, but this is unproductive.\u2019 Why? Why is this unproductive? Because it exposes Democrats! That\u2019s why the Washington Post finds this ‘unproductive.\u2019 It is exposing Democrats. Eugene Robinson, an African-American columnist for the Washington Post. ‘A Hand the Clintons Aren\u2019t Showing,\u2019 is the title of his piece. His point is that they are playing the race card to tar Obama as the one who played it, in a move to get the moderates to leave Obama. His point is that this is strategic, the reason that the Clintons are accusing and charging Obama with injecting race into this, because they think it will turn moderates off. ‘Or the strategy could be more subtle. I can\u2019t help but recall a certain piece in history.\u2019 He looks at Clinton history. He is almost at the point that nothing is coincidence with them. <\/p>\n

‘Is it possible that accusing Obama and his campaign of playing the race card might create doubt in the minds of the moderate independent white voters who now seem so enamored of the young black senator? Might that be the idea? Yes, that\u2019s a cynical view,\u2019 concludes Mr. Robinson, ‘but history is history.\u2019 And then Lois Romano in the Washington Post: ‘The Racial Row That\u2019s Dividing the Democrats.\u2019 She makes the point it isn\u2019t just theater. ‘Some civil rights leaders aren\u2019t believing that this Clinton push on race was not orchestrated.\u2019 Some civil rights leaders, in other words, think that it was orchestrated, and they\u2019re right. We got two sound bites here before we go to the break and get to your phone calls. This is PBS. It\u2019s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He spoke with John Lewis, Democrat from Georgia; and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference cofounder the reverend Joseph Lowery about the Uncivil War. Judy Woodruff says, ‘Representative Lewis, how did you interpret this? You just heard Reverend Lowery say he can see how some people felt that diminished Dr. King\u2019s role.\u2019<\/p>\n

LEWIS: I was there with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on March 15th, 1965 when we watched Lyndon Johnson deliver his speech in response to what would happen in Selma, when he said, ‘and we shall overcome.\u2019 I looked at Dr. King. He looked at me, and tears came down his eyes, and he said, ‘We would get the civil rights bill, the voting rights bill passed, we were marching Selma to Montgomery.\u2019 I think there has been a deliberate, systematic attempt on the part of some people in the Obama camp, to really fan the flame of race and really try to distort what Senator Clinton said. I understand, and I think most right thinking people understood what she said. Martin Luther King, Jr., created the climate, created the environment, but it took a Lyndon Johnson to get the legislation through the Congress.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, and a bunch of Republicans to get it through. Here again, another Uncle Bill: John Lewis. I\u2019ve been perfecting my John Lewis impersonation, by the way, when he\u2019s orating on the floor of the House of Representatives. He was very mild there. But once again, an Uncle Bill. That\u2019s my new term for an Uncle Tom: selling out the race for loyalty to the white master, in this case Bill Clinton. So here we have another foot soldier, John Lewis, who marched with Dr. King, now throwing Obama overboard to side up with the Clintons. Joseph Lowery was asked about these comments that Lewis made, that there\u2019s a systematic attempt on the part of the Obama campaign to make something more out of this.<\/p>\n

LOWERY: That\u2019s absolutely false. I never heard the Obama people respond until the media had done it, a columnist in the New York Times and others on radio and television and in the print media, all raised the issue was this below the belt. I — I certainly don\u2019t need to defend Martin Luther King. I don\u2019t think John needs to defend the Clintons.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. And Lowery inspired this response from Lewis.<\/p>\n

LEWIS: She only referred to the issue of Dr. King when Obama, Mr. Obama, raised the question of leadership in a speech. Mrs. Clinton was saying we need more than rhetoric. We need more than speeches. Dr. King gave some great speeches. He took to the street, and there was action, but it needed a president. That did come out of the language that Mr. Obama was using, but the Obama camp is also doing something else. They\u2019re sending out memos to members of the media trying to suggest that the Clintons are playing the race card.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, well, they are, John. Congressman Lewis. It\u2019s plain as day for everybody to see, but isn\u2019t it interesting how the loyalties here are shaking out? (interruption) I think they do, Mr. Snerdley. I think Lewis… They think that the Obama camp should just roll over and just play dead, when the Clintons come marching into town. (singing) They do. Obama, who is this upstart? He\u2019s not supposed to be winning. He\u2019s not even supposed to be close. Hey, they are not going to give him his dignity or give him his respect. They\u2019re sliming him. They\u2019re accusing him of racism! They\u2019re accusing a black guy of racism, and Jesse Jackson once told us that blacks are incapable of racism because they don\u2019t have the power to implement any of the racist views that they might have. One more from Lowery, a final portion of the exchange between himself and Representative Lewis.<\/p>\n

LOWERY: You said the Obama campaign raised the issue. I\u2019m telling you they did not. It was media people and other people who have been relatively impartial who raised the issue.<\/p>\n

LEWIS: You have tried to — You have tried —<\/p>\n

LOWERY: I simply said I can understand how they could read that in those statements: fairytale, false hope —<\/p>\n

LEWIS: Fairytale had — had nothing… President Clinton —<\/p>\n

LOWERY: — being juxtapositioned against Johnson. That\u2019s not a positive approach. Let\u2019s stay positive. Let\u2019s stay on the issues and serve America.<\/p>\n

LEWIS: President Clinton referenced the fairytale, had nothing — not one word — to do with the issue of race. It was all about the Iraq war.<\/p>\n

LOWERY: Listen, John. I don\u2019t know anybody more articulate than Bill Clinton, and nobody who can choose words wisely. So I know how Bill chooses words, and I think he\u2019s able to do it, and I don\u2019t want to defend him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it. So this battle continues here with Lewis being accused here of, essentially, being a sellout by the Right Reverend Joseph Lowery. Bob Johnson, by the way, he brought up the drug issue again, and the Clintons are out there saying, Bill Clinton is saying (Clinton impression), ‘Look, that was not organized. We had no idea what he was going to say when he got out there. We weren\u2019t even there! How can we know what he was going to say?\u2019 Nobody buys that. Nobody goes to a Clinton rally and speaks off the cuff. This is all part… (interruption) Yeah, he had the Sidney Poitier reference, a distinguished American actor and they try to besmirch him by comparing Obama to him!<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The dirty little secret is this: John Lewis and Charlie Rangel would not be talking like they are if Hillary Clinton was a Republican. And that\u2019s what everybody needs to know. They would be all over her for what she\u2019s doing if she was a Republican. The liberals who are obsessed with race, are doing more to set back race relations than anything I can think of. Sharpton gave Clinton a pass, and has anybody heard from the Reverend Jackson? We\u2019ve not. This Stack of Stuff on the Uncivil War doesn\u2019t stop. The Washington Post had ten stories on this today, and in this story, ‘As Candidates Agree, Aides Keep Sparring,\u2019 James Carville says he is shaken by the whole thing. He says, ‘This race debate in our party, why, this is totally unfamiliar.\u2019 Unfamiliar, Mr. Carville, or just unsaid and behind closed doors? <\/p>\n

Does anybody believe this is the first time people in the Democrat Party are talking this way? No. This is just the first time it has surfaced and emerged from behind closed doors. And then this. New York Times: ‘In Obama\u2019s Pursuit of Latinos, Race Plays a Role.\u2019 It\u2019s all about Obama bridging the black-Latino divide. This race obsession is exhausting. Aren\u2019t you libs tired of this? I told you they were in chaos. The Reverend Jackson is quiet, he supports Obama. The Reverend Jackson\u2019s wife is a Hillary supporter. He\u2019s gotta have someplace to sleep and the credit card may be maxed out. At least he needs someplace to sleep in Chicago. So the Reverend Jackson has to shut up. He\u2019s for Obama, his wife is for Hillary; he has been neutered. Here\u2019s Bill Clinton on the radio in Chicago yesterday, answering the question, the BET guy, ‘Those comments about Obama and drug use, was that stuff planned?\u2019<\/p>\n

CLINTON: No. First of all, I don\u2019t think that — Bob Johnson said what he said yesterday. Nobody knew what he was going to say. And it wasn\u2019t part of any planned strategy. And certainly nobody had any advance notice of anything Attorney General Cuomo said.<\/p>\n

MARTIN: But Bob defended his comment. <\/p>\n

CLINTON: What?<\/p>\n

MARTIN: He has tried to defend it. He has tried to say when we asked, he\u2019s trying to defend it by, ‘It\u2019s not what I mean,\u2019 but anybody listening knows what he was talking about. He wasn\u2019t talking about community organizing. That was kind of clear.<\/p>\n

CLINTON: Well, that\u2019s something between Bob Johnson and Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (doing Clinton impression) ‘Because I had nothing to do with it out there, Roland, you know, I was just minding my own business, nobody said anything out there. We don\u2019t organize those kinds of things. By the way, you didn\u2019t ask about Andrew Cuomo, but that shuck and jive comment that he made, I had nothing to do with that, either. We didn\u2019t know anything about that. I\u2019m offended you would suggest such a thing, Roland. I\u2019m not going to come on your radio show ever again.\u2019 And then Clinton added this.<\/p>\n

CLINTON: I\u2019ll tell you, I\u2019ve got a list of 80 attacks on her going back six months. When his campaign referred to her as the senator from Punjab, on the very same day, they put out a three-page printed release attacking me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: McCarthyesque, Bill Clinton holding up a sheet of paper. (doing Clinton impression) ‘I have a list of 80, 80 attacks on her going back six months. He came after me, too.\u2019 It\u2019s two against one, Mr. President. Poor Obama is out there trying to take the high road, and you and your wife are dumping all over the guy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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