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RUSH: We have David on the phone from Columbia, South Carolina. Great that you waited, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. How you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just fine, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I had a question. I\u2019m a black Republican. I\u2019m not too conservative, but fairly conservative. My wife, very liberal, and she is a big Obama supporter, and we get into this big conversation all the time, and I wanted to get your opinion on something. I wanted to ask you if you think that the media\u2019s infatuation with Obama is similar to their infatuation with the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, because she and I got into a conversation about it. I think so, because so much of what he talks about are these great, big, broad strokes, nothing really specific. And I\u2019m like, ‘Hey, look, anybody can get up here and look good. You have a guy who\u2019s articulate, he\u2019s photogenic.\u2019 But I\u2019m like, ‘What does he stand for on some serious issues?\u2019 And she looks at me crossways, you know. And I\u2019m like, ‘Well, you don\u2019t know, I mean, so why is he the media darling?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it would be a tough analogy here to the McNabb situation. Let me try this nevertheless. You\u2019ve just reminded me of something here, David, before I answer your question, yesterday on this program, ladies and gentlemen, we did a little test. We played ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro” to see if the Drive-Bys would pick up on it that I was acting as an insurgent and refusing to allow the truce to go on in the Uncivil War. I guess nobody\u2019s commented about that, but Media Matters for America, the Clinton front group, sent out a piece claiming that I used the word spade in my monologue on Monday. (laughter) Knowing full well that Hillary, of course, had talked about Obama hadn\u2019t done the spadework necessary on foreign policy. It was delicious. <\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s what David\u2019s question is. David\u2019s question, I came along, as you know, and I said, ‘I don\u2019t think McNabb is playing as well as everybody thinks he is. I think the defense should get a lot of credit for the Eagles. I just think there\u2019s a lot of social concern in the NFL. I think the Drive-Bys in the media are concerned very much that a black quarterback do well in the NFL.\u2019 That caused a three-year firestorm. In fact, in certain places, it\u2019s still referenced. So his question is, ‘Are the Drive-Bys propping up Obama for the same reason?\u2019 He\u2019s the first black candidate with a legitimate chance, we\u2019ve just been so discriminatory in our past and so forth, we\u2019ve gotta elevate this guy, whether he deserves it or not. I\u2019ll tell you who really made that point, David, was a black columnist in the LA Times named David Ehrenstein when he started referring to Obama as the ‘Magic Negro.\u2019 The Magic Negro, as he meant it, was a vessel for white guilt. A bunch of white people were saying they were supporting Obama, which Ehrenstein didn\u2019t like. Ehrenstein is a Clinton guy, and he didn\u2019t like all these white people out supporting Obama when they had no idea what he stood for, the point that you just made. There were puff pieces early on. But now that the race war, the Uncivil War, has broken out, despite the so-called truce, the Drive-Bys were not monolithic in this. In some cases, the Drive-Bys supported Obama. In other cases, they supported the Clinton side of this. But, David, here\u2019s the point. This is what you need to tell your wife. Now, you said your wife is an Obama person?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah. Yeah. She\u2019s a big-time Obama fan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, here\u2019s what you need to do. Try this as an experiment. Is she a big liberal Democrat, or does she just like Obama for other reasons?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, she\u2019s a liberal Democrat, but one thing she agrees with you wholeheartedly on is she\u2019s an immigrant from Barbados. They immigrated to New York about 30-some years ago, and she and her family had to wait a good year-and-a-half for the paperwork and all the processing. So, as far as illegal immigration, she\u2019s right with you on that issue. But, yeah, for the most part she\u2019s —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, then there\u2019s hope for you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: But here\u2019s the thing to tell her. Now, she\u2019s from Barbados. Before I give you the little test to run, I need to ask you one more question. She\u2019s from Barbados. Is she old enough and learned enough to be familiar with the civil rights struggle in this country?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Well, how long has she been in the country?<\/p>\n

CALLER: She\u2019s been here for 40 years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Then here\u2019s what you tell her. What\u2019s her first name?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Bawana.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, Bawana, you\u2019ve been watching American politics, and you\u2019ve been watching the Democrat Party, and you\u2019re obviously a liberal Democrat for all these years, and here, your guy, Obama, Barack Obama, the first black man with a legitimate chance to be the president of the United States, and who\u2019s trying to destroy him? The Democrat Party, the Clinton machine is trying to stomp on this guy. He\u2019s getting too uppity; he doesn\u2019t know his place; he\u2019s taking this too seriously. The Clintons didn\u2019t mind him getting in the race, but they don\u2019t like the fact that he\u2019s outraising her, and they don\u2019t like the fact that he\u2019s got more love than she does. Now, if the Democrats, all of these years of the civil rights struggle, David, had meant what they said, that blacks have been sat on, and they have been discriminated against, and they have been mistreated, and they\u2019ve been denied equality and opportunity, usually blaming Republicans for this, the Clintons, if they really bought it, if all of liberalism bought what they really tell us, then there would be a mass movement on the part of John Edwards and Hillary Clinton to get out of this race and let Obama have it simply because this is what they claim they have stood for all these years. <\/p>\n

And instead, what\u2019s happening is that the very people who lead the party on all this civil rights stuff are stomping on him and doing their best to deny him, and they\u2019re lying about him, and they\u2019re accusing him of race, and they\u2019re putting rumors out, about he was not only using drugs, but maybe even selling drugs. Then they\u2019ve got another Clinton crony out there, Bob Kerrey, who went out there, David, and, ‘Look at his middle name, Barack Hussein Obama. He\u2019s been to madrasahs; his father was a Muslim.\u2019 They\u2019ve done everything they could to destroy the guy\u2019s reputation and character, Clinton, Inc. Now, that\u2019s what you need to ask your wife, why does she want to be a member of a party like that? If she loves Obama, she\u2019s gotta understand who it is that\u2019s trying to destroy this poor guy. It\u2019s not us — yet. We\u2019ll have our chance if he becomes the nominee. But we\u2019ll do it on issues. <\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Clintons are not doing it on issues. The Clintons are trying to destroy this man personally.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re absolutely right, Rush. I will say this, there is one good thing that is coming from Obama\u2019s campaign, and that is, he\u2019s doing it without the help of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and it is driving them nuts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. Let me tell you something.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m loving every minute of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you something, David, you\u2019re right, you\u2019re on to something there. If Obama wins, if he happens to win, it would be the worst thing in the world for the Democrat Party, worst thing in the world for the Reverend Jackson and Al Sharpton, because how can a racist country elect a black president? The race business will go down sky high. It would be over with. There\u2019s a lot riding on this guy losing in the Democrat Party. Tell her that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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