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RUSH: We have a couple more bites. This is Obama. He\u2019s trying to say that unless the Rev. controversy goes away, we won\u2019t be making any progress.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: We have a choice in this country. We can play Reverend Wright sermons on every channel, every day, and talk about them from now until the election and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — think that I somehow —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape! Yeah, we can do that. We could get rid of Reverend Wright. We can stop playing Reverend Wright. We\u2019re still going to have to listen to Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton is still going to be able to tell networks who can say what. We\u2019re still going to have to listen to the Reverend Jackson. We\u2019re still going to have to listen to all the other dividers in this country on the left. Now, go back to the top of this. This might sound like an idle little thing. I\u2019m not sure that we\u2019re dealing with something here that\u2019s just idle. I think there\u2019s something a little bit more substantive going on with this bite. Listen again.<\/p>\n

<\/a>OBAMA: We have a choice in this country. We can play Reverend Wright\u2019s sermons on every channel, every day, and talk about them from now until the election and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she\u2019s playing the race card.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is so slick.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Clintonesque, here.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: We can do that, but if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we\u2019ll be talking about some other distraction, and then another one, and then another one (applause) and nothing will change! That is one option. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, ‘Not this time.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Blackmail? ‘You keep playing the Jeremy Wright stuff, we\u2019ll see to it this country stays roiled and divided. You stop playing the Jeremiah Wright stuff, and maybe we can move on and be at one with one another.\u2019 He\u2019s just trying to get this Reverend Wright stuff off television, folks. That\u2019s all that bite was — and he\u2019s trying to guilt everybody in the networks into not doing it under the guise of, ‘By not playing Rev. Wright, we are coming together.\u2019 He touches this with… Well, I haven\u2019t got time to elaborate, but while all this is going on, we\u2019re not supposed to mention his middle name, either. We don\u2019t mention his middle name. We don\u2019t call him a liberal. We don\u2019t play any more Rev. Wright videos — or else! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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