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RUSH: As I said right before the end of the previous hour, the Drive-Bys love, ladies and gentlemen, to report that Obama is a practicing Christian, not a Muslim. Well, isn\u2019t it relevant to learn what kind of Christianity he chooses to practice? It\u2019s relevant to me what kind of Christianity he chooses to practice, is it not? If this pastor didn\u2019t leave him, would Obama still be sitting in the front pew? Does he denounce him? How many news stories have we seen over the years in the New York Times and elsewhere in the Drive-By Media insulting conservatives by saying, ‘Look what Falwell believes, and look what Pat Robertson believes, why, these are kooks.\u2019 Remember all these stories? ‘Falwell, Robertson, these guys are nutcases, and that\u2019s the Christian right,\u2019 said the Drive-By Media, as they attempted to denounce people who were pro-life. So people were judged by the Drive-By Media according to what the Drive-By Media thought of their preachers. Why is this not happening with Barack Obama? Reuters, AP, they all went out there, and they uncovered every rock they could find about Mormonism to destroy Mitt Romney. They made sure that we found out what kind of Christianity Mitt Romney practiced, and Romney was forced to make a speech about it. Romney, they tried to drum him out of the campaign because of his religion. Not so with Barack Obama. <\/p>\n

That professor — we had an audio sound bite in the first hour — that professor who compared JFK\u2019s situation to Obama somehow missed the comparison between Romney and Obama, didn\u2019t he? Romney\u2019s a Mormon, said to be part of a cult. Professor didn\u2019t say a word about that, Obama\u2019s guy didn\u2019t. Well, what do you call Obama\u2019s church? What do you call his pastor? What do you call this religion that Obama practices, this hatemongering, racist religion. Will you call that a cult? Here\u2019s the bottom line. We have not gotten honesty from Obama. He has not been honest about his church. He has not been honest about his pastor and his commitment over 20 years to both. He has been deceptive; he\u2019s been nonresponsive; he\u2019s been diverted on the few occasions he has been asked about it. He has not been honest with the voters; he has not been honest with the media, and of course the media is not too terribly curious to find out about this. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: We\u2019ll start with Robert in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Robert, thanks, welcome to the show.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Good.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I got a couple things. One, it was the Christian right who brought down Romney, who went after him. It wasn\u2019t the liberal left. And second —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, ah, ah, ah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Huh?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Christian right might not have voted for him. It was the Drive-By Media who kept harping on Mormonism and uncovering every rock to find out what kind of cult it was.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, the — the — the media is run by the right. We all know that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, well, this is off to a good start. Way to go, Snerdley. We\u2019re off to a really good start, here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Anyway, we both have different opinion on the media.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I\u2019m sure we do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The second thing is, I listened to the clip that you played of Obama\u2019s reverend, preacher, or whatever?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Pastor.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve heard him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Pastor, pastor, pastor.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Pastor. And to tell you the truth, I don\u2019t see where he\u2019s wrong. If you could just point out where you think he\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You gotta be kidding. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Tell me what he\u2019s wrong about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You have got to be kidding!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Explain it to me. Which part of do you think, which comment of his do you think he\u2019s wrong on?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Everything he said!<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re generalizing. Give me one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. We\u2019ll go back and play \u2019em.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no, no! <\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yes!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Give me one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no! You asked for it, you got it. Grab audio sound bite–<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m asking you to point out which one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re going to listen to it. What does it matter?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because you don\u2019t know what\u2019s wrong with it.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: You can\u2019t point it out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, I can.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Point one out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Jesus was a poor black man\u2019? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Is that wrong?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why, you think he was white? You think Jesus was white?<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was Semitic.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Where was he from?<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was Jewish!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Are they darker than the rest of us?<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Hillary never had to worry about being pulled over in her car as a black man driving in the wrong. I\u2019m sick of Negroes who just don\u2019t get it.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think he\u2019s right there, too. Go ahead.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Hillary is not a black boy raised in a single parent…\u2019 This is hate! This is pure, unadulterated hate, and it is inciting hate in his congregation.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think you\u2019re trying to insight hate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘The government gives black people drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strikes law, and then wants blacks to sing God Bless America? No. We\u2019re going to do God (bleep) America.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know about those three strike laws and how it affects the poor, right, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, Robert, Robert, Robert.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So far you haven\u2019t convinced me that what he said is wrong. How about us, uh, middling — meddling in foreign affairs?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, preserving US national interests.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Preserving natural interests?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can understand exactly why, Robert, you think what you think because you\u2019re just like this guy. You hate the country. You hate America, just like Jeremiah Wright. You should go to Chicago and try to get in on a couple of these sermons before the guy… Well, I think he\u2019s given his last sermon. Well, you lose.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just learned something here about the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the pastor to Barack Obama. Barack Obama\u2019s book, The Audacity of Hope, that title was taken from a sermon written by Pastor Wright. At some point, he\u2019s going to have to answer some questions about this. He\u2019s getting away with leading two lives here, and the longer of the two lives is the one associated with this pastor and this church. When he decided he wanted to run for president, about a year and a half ago, that\u2019s the new life that he gets, and it\u2019s a life immune from any of his past. He comes forth as an empty vessel, saying empty things really well, and people are swooning and fainting. I don\u2019t even think that\u2019s happening anymore, though, is it? They\u2019ll have to gin that back up, but they\u2019ll do it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: J. C. in Kokomo, Indiana. Nice to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. This could be fun because I also have a hearing issue, but I gotta tell you that I nearly got physically ill listening to this pastor preach. I personally was very offended, and more than that, I was embarrassed as a Christian. I am really surprised that Church of Christ leadership on the international basis or something like would allow a pastor —<\/p>\n

RUSH: This church is not part of the Church of Christ. This is an independent stand-alone. This is the Trinity United Church of Christ, but I don\u2019t think this church has anything to do with the United Churches of Christ across the world.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m a preacher\u2019s kid, and growing up and all through my adult life I have been taught to love thy neighbor, forgiveness, you know. If preachers are giving this leadership position, they will be judged more harshly. To me, I just saw a reverse Aryan Nation —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What you\u2019re looking at here, you know, this guy\u2019s church is really nothing more than a vessel for him to practice his hatemongering politics. That\u2019s what\u2019s offensive. This guy was pure hate, lunatic racist. He\u2019s angry, and he\u2019s couching this as so-called sermons from the pulpit. He\u2019ll mention Jesus and the Romans, throw it in there and give it some sort of religious context, but this guy\u2019s preaching hate. He\u2019s inspiring hate. To me there\u2019s no wonder Michelle Obama thinks of the country the way she thinks of it if this is where they\u2019ve been going to church for 20 years. I don\u2019t know how long she\u2019s been going to church at this place, but she\u2019s obviously heard enough to hate the country like this guy does.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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