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RUSH: Barack Obama was on Nightline last night, and the cohost, Terry Moran said, ‘If I went to a church where white supremacy was preached, what would you think of me?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I disagree with you, though, Terry, that\u2019s not what\u2019s preached at Trinity, and that I think — that is an easy equivalence that is not at all what is taking place there. If you look at the sermons, even the most offensive ones that are at issue, he is condemning white racism as he defines it, but he\u2019s not condemning the white race. He is not suggesting that blacks are superior. What he\u2019s saying is that this — that white racism — is endemic in this society.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Probably got a point there. A better question would have been, ‘What if I went to a church that preached separatism? What if I went to a church and my preacher was just filled with rage and hate, what would you think about that?\u2019 But clearly whites are the problem, as far as Jeremiah Wright is concerned. Then Obama says this about the O.J. Simpson trial.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: You remember when, during the O.J. trial, there was a similar moment when the culture — you know, black and white culture just had these completely opposite reactions, and nobody understood it. And, by the way, I\u2019m somebody who was pretty clear that O.J. was guilty. And I was ashamed for my own community to respond in that way. But I also understood what was taking place, which was that reaction had more to do with a sense that somehow the criminal justice system historically had been biased so profoundly that a defeat of that justice system was somehow a victory.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yaw, well, it wasn\u2019t good for unity. That\u2019s not the kind of stuff that promotes unity, Obama. It isn\u2019t. He\u2019s right, it was jury nullification, the jury says, ‘Screw you, we\u2019ve been lynched. One of our guys is going to get away, and you see how you like it,\u2019 and so forth. But two wrongs don\u2019t make a right. There\u2019s any number of arguments against that. But see, here again, Obama, he condemns and then takes the condemnation back. ‘I condemn it, but I understand it.\u2019 And once again he falls back on the notion that it\u2019s the country\u2019s fault that the O.J. jury did what it did, that the jury had no complicity in their own verdict whatsoever, which takes us where? To liberalism. Nobody is responsible for what they do. There\u2019s always somebody else to blame or some institution to blame that makes people victims. So when you strip away all of the rhetoric and the flowery language and the inspirational syllables, what you\u2019re left with here is that this guy is as liberal as any Democrat who\u2019s ever run for the White House and is trying to mask it like every other liberal tries to mask it, he\u2019s masking it in his own way. The mask has come off now, or is in the process of it. Now, I am the one out there yesterday who said, actually, I gotta give Snerdley credit for this, because it was Snerdley\u2019s analysis, but up until yesterday, Obama was a candidate, a black candidate who transcended race, and that was one of his strengths. In the speech yesterday, he became the candidate of race. Terry Moran\u2019s question, ‘There\u2019s a political risk for you, isn\u2019t there, by embracing race? You might become the race candidate, and that\u2019s a limiting thing.\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Absolutely. So hopefully this is something that we have talked about, we\u2019ve lifted up, it will spur discussion, you know, like Robert Kennedy\u2019s wonderful metaphor, ripples of hope, you know, you throw a rock into a pond, and those ripples will go out. We don\u2019t know where those ripples will go. No, I have no idea how this plays out politically. But I think it was important to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So that\u2019s Obama, yeah, running a risk here, becoming the race candidate. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve lifted it up. It will spur discussion. You know, like Robert Kennedy\u2019s wonderful metaphor, ripples of hope, you throw a rock into a pond, those ripples will go out. This is what Obama wishes his campaign could return to, ladies and gentlemen. Computer froze. Maybe it\u2019s sabotage, but we\u2019ll get the computer unfrozen. You know, the commercial that we have played parodying Obama\u2019s speeches and lofty rhetoric and people\u2019s reaction to it, this is what he would wish that his campaign could return to. <\/p>\n

(playing of A Vote for Obama spoof) <\/p>\n

We had everybody buffaloed. Agent of change, transcending race. Obama didn\u2019t speak about race prior to yesterday, when the Reverend Jeremiah Wright controversy hit, out of necessity — not courage — had to be addressed. Finally Terry Moran, Nightline last night says, ‘Is there a difference between black patriotism and white patriotism?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: The African-American community is much more familiar with some of the darker aspects of American life and American history. I think that they understand America much less as a marching band playing, you know, John Philip Sousa. They understand America much more as a jazz composition with blue notes, and I think those are different things. And so the African-American community can express great rage and anger about this country and love it all the same.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That would be great if we saw evidence of the love. It would be great if we saw evidence of the love. Well, you know, it\u2019s a thin line between love and hate. It really is. Relationships, it\u2019s sometimes said that you can\u2019t really hate somebody \u2019til you love \u2019em first because the emotion of hate requires a significantly strong emotion on the other side. You can dislike somebody — to really, really, really get mad and hate their guts, you gotta love \u2019em, because only people you love can disappoint you that much, or make you that mad. So I can understand this. I can understand hating your country and loving it at the same time. I just want to see evidence of the love from people that Obama hangs around, that\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, Deval Patrick is the governor of Massachusetts. He is an African-American. He was on CNN last night, and the fill-in host for Anderson Cooper was Campbell Brown. She said, ‘He knew how controversial Reverend Wright\u2019s views were. Why did Obama seem so surprised when they became public and this turned into such a furor?\u2019<\/p>\n

PATRICK: It reminds me a little bit of that wonderful saying of, I think it was Louis Pasteur,[sic] that education is learning to listen to anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. There are candidates I\u2019m sure who listen to the most virulent of the conservative radio talk show hosts. I know occasionally my wife listens to that stuff while she\u2019s driving in the car, but it doesn\u2019t mean that she accepts those points of view.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, so now what happens on this program is no different than what happens in the church where the preacher is the reverend Jeremiah Wright. Here\u2019s the moral equivocation. Folks, we could not ask for more. We could not ask for more of this kind of illustration of just how liberals think and who they are, running around insulting millions of Americans who listen to talk radio. I just wanted you to hear that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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