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RUSH: This I predicted. I\u2019ll give you an example here last night. For those of you who weren\u2019t here yesterday, I want to validate that I predicted this. This is what I said on yesterday\u2019s program.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: So we\u2019ll watch the Drive-By Media tonight do their best to spin this into an act of courage, something that\u2019s worthwhile of the Kennedy School of Government\u2019s award for the Profile in Courage. You know, every year Caroline Kennedy awards a Profile in Courage Award to a great political operative. The Kennedys have endorsed this guy, right? The Kennedys have endorsed this guy. So this is going to be spun as an act of political courage today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We have put together, ladies and gentlemen, a montage of the Drive-By Media the last 24 hours. We have here the Reverend Al Sharpton, former president Jimmy Carter, Democrat analyst Tanya Acker, the Reverend Eugene Rivers, Pat Buchanan, Chris Wallace of Fox, David Mattingly at CNN all talk about Barack Obama\u2019s courage.<\/p>\n

SHARPTON: Barack Obama showed a real profile in courage.<\/p>\n

CARTER: I think it\u2019s very wise and courageous.<\/p>\n

ACKER: He did something politically courageous.<\/p>\n

RIVERS: He was very courageous and is to be commended for the courage he exhibited.<\/p>\n

BUCHANAN: You feel sort of anguish for Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

WALLACE: You could feel his personal anguish.<\/p>\n

MATTINGLY: A very private anguish.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whereas the reaction on this program was precisely the right reaction. The Drive-By Media, left and right, you heard Pat Buchanan in there, the left and the right talking about how this was courageous. This is a classic illustration. I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body, ladies and gentlemen, predicted this right down the path. Newspaper stories, our old friend Carla Marinucci in the San Francisco Chronicle: ‘Obama Praised for Rebuking His Pastor.\u2019 Here\u2019s a quote from James Taylor, who teaches politics and black history at the University of San Francisco. ‘Wright ‘seems to have gone on a path that might actually benefit Obama in a twisted way,\u2019 Taylor said. ‘Now, instead of being associated with him, we see a break — so now it\u2019s Barack Obama versus Jeremiah Wright. And that\u2019s more to (Obama\u2019s) advantage.\u2019 … But his handling of the Wright controversy, many political observers said, appeared to be effective. Barbara O\u2019Connor, professor of political communication at California State University, Sacramento, ‘He satisfied the concerns of those willing to be satisfied. … He\u2019s being intellectually honest.” <\/p>\n

Professor O\u2019Connor, he was everything but intellectually honest in this speech. In fact, we have learned, ladies and gentlemen, that the primary reason why he did the speech was that he did polling the night before to find out where he stood on this. That\u2019s why he waited all that time from Friday when Wright appeared on Bill Moyers, then did the press club thing on Monday. Obama reacts yesterday. He was polling it. I\u2019ll have the details coming up. The New York Times: ”Mr. Obama and Reverend Wright.\u2019 It was the most forthright repudiation of an out-of-control supporter that we can remember. We would like to say that it will finally take the racial charge out of this campaign. We\u2019re not that naive.\u2019 And then they go on to say that McCain ought to now stop the North Carolina GOP ad and let\u2019s have a real discussion on race. I kid you not. I predicted this, folks. Boston Globe today, Peter S. Canellos, ‘Candidate Faces Down his Former Pastor, but What Took So Long?\u2019 Obama did disinvite Wright back in 2007, and we\u2019re going to get into the details of this, ladies and gentlemen, because the Drive-Bys, we knew what they would do. They would do everything they could to paper over the fact that this was a damaging speech that Obama did, the little press conference yesterday. Let me make a brief observation. <\/p>\n

Let me give you the poll data first because I\u2019m sure you want to know this. This is from Ace of Spades, which is a blog. ‘The word on the street is that Barack Obama did not repudiate or further ‘distance\u2019 himself from Wright last night, but rather waited until today, because he was polling on whether he should make the move all night. That\u2019s the word on the street. The word from Mary Katharine Ham\u2019s dad confirms that, as he, a North Carolina resident, did receive just such a poll,\u2019 on Monday night. So Obama was polling what to do. Everything about this man is straight down the line average, typical, run-of-the-mill cookie-cutter politician. He just happens to be an extreme left-wing radical. Another question I would have, ladies and gentlemen, for you. Is it likely that we know Barack Obama\u2019s preacher better than Barack Obama does? Well, that is what it is being made to sound like. I think this is a crucial point, my friends, because we are being told here that Barack Obama didn\u2019t know what he was doing, didn\u2019t know what his preacher was saying.<\/p>\n

The story is now coming out, Barack wasn\u2019t even in church that much, and that\u2019s why he didn\u2019t hear some of these things. So we knew Wright better than Obama. Does that make any sense? Obama chose the guy. This guy is his preacher, and yet Barack has to go out, ‘I didn\u2019t know any of this.\u2019 The dirty little secret here is that Obama didn\u2019t give a rat\u2019s rear end what Wright was saying until Wright went after him. When Wright was going after America and ripping America to shreds with his hate America rhetoric that was fine with Obama. But when he went after Obama, that made it personal, and he hides behind the notion that Wright was amplifying all of this beyond the sermons and beyond the pulpit. Everybody\u2019s been smoked here. The people on the left, the Obama supporters want to be smoked. They bent over forward and grabbed the ankles and say ‘have at me\u2019 and do whatever it takes. The story is out today that the congressional superdelegates, ‘It\u2019s over.\u2019 They have chosen Obama, not officially but somebody has done a head count. The congressional superdelegates have chosen Obama. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s in The Politico today. ‘Obama May Win Hill Superdelegate Fight.\u2019 Superdelegates are not moving. They\u2019re just waiting to announce for Obama. They\u2019ve already decided. There\u2019s a majority of them in Congress just waiting to announce and so forth. But I want to go back to this business that we supposedly know Jeremiah Wright better than Obama does. He went to the Million Man March, and who was the speaker at the Million Man March? Louis Farrakhan. That\u2019s where he got this big speech on the number 19. This Wright guy I think is probably Nation of Islam. His bodyguards at the National Press Club are Nation of Islam. He knows everything Wright stands for. Obama\u2019s church gave Farrakhan the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award, did you know that? Obama\u2019s church gave Farrakhan the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., Trumpeter Award. It is absurd, ladies and gentlemen, to believe that Obama knew less about this man than we do, but that\u2019s what he\u2019s asking us to believe, is it not? <\/p>\n

Much more straight ahead. Lots to do on the program today, not through with the Obama stuff because there\u2019s some stories in the press that contradict, most notably the New York Post here today with Fred Dicker, what this is all about with Obama and his preacher. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You remember Barack Obama complained that George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson in the Philadelphia debate — and Mrs. Clinton, of course — were dwelling on distractions by going after Obama and Reverend Wright. They were just distractions. ‘Can\u2019t we get back to the issues?\u2019 Well, a question, ladies and gentlemen. If that\u2019s true, why has Obama acceded now and decided to dwell in the distractions himself? Which is what he did yesterday. Barack Obama launched an entire news cycle over this very issue that just days ago he condemned as a distraction. Nothing has changed about Wright\u2019s message. As I so keenly, brilliantly pointed out yesterday: There\u2019s nothing Wright said over the past four days that he hasn\u2019t said in the last 20 years. What apparently miffs Obama is that he\u2019s amplifying it from beyond the pulpit and that he\u2019s taking it out on Obama personally. But Obama\u2019s acting like, ‘This stuff is offensive. I can\u2019t deal with this stuff.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I refuse to believe that Obama did not know this. I refuse to believe that I, El Rushbo, and you, the audience in this program, know more about Reverend Wright than Senator Obama does. I refuse to believe that. Yet that is what we are being asked to believe. The only thing that\u2019s changed is that Obama\u2019s no longer able to duck and deny this. So now, because of Obama\u2019s own choosing, it is a major germane issue. It\u2019s not a distraction any longer. So was he telling the truth then or is he telling the truth now? As we have learned, polls are driving his reconsideration to address Wright\u2019s message. It is simply impossible to believe that he could have been unaware of it; even if he attended infrequently, which is the latest attempt they are making: ‘Well, he didn\u2019t go that much.\u2019 Black liberation theology is racially oriented. It\u2019s the opposite of what Obama claims to stand for. He chose a church espousing liberation theology. <\/p>\n

Yet he\u2019s running on a completely different ideology. So he chooses one thing for his private life — and that would be spiritual nourishment from a racist anti-American divisive pastor — claims on the other hand that he will lead the country to unity in his public life. To me, this is typical liberalism, promoting the lie that he can divorce his private self from his public one. Barack Obama has fully exposed himself as a con-summate fraud. And, by the way, some of you might say, ‘Con-summate? It\u2019s consum-mate!\u2019 No. Well, it is. It\u2019s both. Back in the old days, in the glory days of radio, before there was television; if you wanted to go to work for NBC you had to go in and do a live audition, and they gave you sentences, and one of the words that they gave you was ‘consummate,\u2019 and if you didn\u2019t pronounce it con-summate, you couldn\u2019t pass the audition. I kid you not. It has since evolved to consum-mate, but the original pronunciation in the official annals of NBC — back in the old days when there really were broadcast standards — con-summate was the way that it was pronounced. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s just a little aside. Now, Barack Obama said yesterday, ”I am outraged by the comments that were made. I am saddened by the spectacle that we saw yesterday.\u2019 The candidate said that after watching Wright\u2019s appearance Monday, ‘What became clear to me was that he was presenting a worldview that contradicts what I am and what I stand for.” When did that become clear, Obama? None of this, none of this washes. The sycophantic treatment and reaction to this in the Drive-By Media is precisely why there is a New Media. That was journalistic malpractice the way this was reacted to last night and the way that it was reported. And I want to go through a couple sound bites here to illustrate some of the contradictions. Now, remember, Barack Obama did his best to distance himself from Jeremiah Wright. But before Obama spoke — and this is key — when Wright was on Moyers and when Wright appeared at the Press Club, the Drive-By Media, both nights, tried to sanitize Wright. <\/p>\n

They all said, ‘Oh, what a great speech this was! What marvelous, marvelous intelligence this man has!\u2019 They did everything they could to spin and recast the actual words and intentions of Jeremiah Wright. So after the Drive-By Media, which is in the tank for Obama, goes out and spins Wright as, ‘Hey, that was really great. That was good,\u2019 Obama then goes out and says, ‘I can\u2019t handle this. I\u2019m not going to listen to this. I am disowning this man.\u2019 But the Drive-Bys are so far in the tank, Obama contradicts his own backers in the Drive-By Media, and yet they sweep it under the rug. Now, what we\u2019ve done here is I\u2019ve put together some examples of the audience applauding various things that Wright said at the National Press Club. Some of the applause is tepid, but some of it is not. We\u2019ve left the applause in so you can get an idea how the audience reacted to the words of Jeremiah Wright.<\/p>\n

WRIGHT: This most recent attack on the black church — it is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright. It is an attack on the black church. (wild applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right on, right on, right on! Keep in mind, Obama has disavowed all of this. Here\u2019s the next one.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I do not subscribe to the views that he expressed. I believe they are wrong. I think they are destructive.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So the media and everybody in the audience is applauding what Wright said, and Obama is denouncing.<\/p>\n

WRIGHT: You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you. Those are biblical principles, not Jeremiah Wright bombastic, divisive principles. (applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right on, right on, right on, right on. Some of the tepid applause. Here\u2019s Obama.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: When he equates the United States\u2019 wartime efforts with terrorism, uh, then, uh, there are no excuses. Uh, they offend me. Uh, they rightly offend all Americans, uh, and, uh, they should be denounced.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, but he\u2019s just learning this? He\u2019s just learning this? We\u2019re dealing with a typical liberal here, folks. He\u2019s tried every which way. He\u2019s tried as hard as he could to keep Jeremiah Wright in the close circle. Finally, it got to the point where he couldn\u2019t because he was polling it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was reported yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, that Barack Obama was angry; seething, in fact. I didn\u2019t see this, but I saw somebody slinking, shoulder slumped. I saw somebody defensive and quiet, a little bit sad; maybe, depressed. I didn\u2019t see this anger. But a lot of people said that Obama was very mad about this yesterday. Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, was on the Scarborough program today on MSNBC; and he asked her, ‘What do you think of the Obama statement yesterday? Was it enough to finally put this behind him?\u2019<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: I should point out that, quite to my surprise, when he was out on the stump last night; once again, Obama was kind of trivializing it, saying, ‘Well, my opponents are making fun of me,\u2019 and, ‘They say that I don\u2019t put my hand over my heart,\u2019 and, ‘They talk about my, you know, former pastor\u2019s crazy statements.\u2019 So he was trying to blame it on McCain, Hillary, whoever; rather than on what he earlier said in a very in a, you know, specific and dramatic way.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Wow, that\u2019s interesting.<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: Yeah.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: So he\u2019s downplaying it again as silly?<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: Well, out there on the stump he was. Only hours after this, as I say, very public divorce.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. So right after the very big public divorce, the big press conference where he was angry and hurt, Obama is back to calling Wright\u2019s controversy silly. In other words, the press conference was an act. The press conference was staged for the Drive-Bys. When Obama gets back out and is talking to the peeps and the voters, he\u2019s not continuing. ‘I was mad. I was hurt.\u2019 No, no, no. It\u2019s all back to silly. This whole thing was a show yesterday, and the Drive-Bys fell for it, as typified… Now, Scarborough is not a Drive-By, but he asked a question here that a lot of the Drive-Bys were asking of each other last night: ‘Do you think he put it behind him? Do you think now we put it behind him? Gosh, I hope…\u2019 They\u2019re not analyzing it substantively. ‘Do you think he put it behind him? Do you think this is all it took? Can we get this behind him, now?\u2019 That\u2019s what they want, and that\u2019s of course going to be up to the Reverend Wright. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: To Gainesville, Florida, Alan, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. This is Alan from Gainesville, Florida.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I want to tell you that you\u2019re a very important part of our family. We listen to you every day. I have a couple homeschooled boys at home, my wife and I, and we listen to you every single day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: A very personal relationship. You know, when we listen to you on the radio, we really feel that you\u2019re part of our family. We even call you Uncle Rush. But the reason I called is to tell you about my father-in-law in Maryland. He\u2019s a mechanic, a lifelong Democrat, all his friends are lifelong Democrats. I was talking to him about Operation Chaos. He told me that he is part of Operation Chaos, but he did not change his registration. What he did is vote for Clinton in the Maryland primary, all his pals voted for Clinton, all their wives voted for Clinton, all their relatives voted for Clinton. They were all registered Democrats. The reason they wanted to vote for Clinton, to, you know, corrupt the — not corrupt, but, you know, change the outcome in Maryland \u2019cause Obama was very popular in Maryland.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But then they told me, ‘Well, what we\u2019re going to do, we\u2019re going to vote for Clinton and then we\u2019re vote for McCain in the general election.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Without changing the registration.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, this sadly doesn\u2019t surprise me. This is something that we haven\u2019t discussed much. It\u2019s a phenomena that we know exists, Operation Chaos operatives who are already Democrats. This is something that the Drive-Bys — and I haven\u2019t wanted to talk about this, \u2019cause this would alert the Drive-Bys and the Democrat voter registrars to look at their own voters rather than Operation Chaos operatives, and you can\u2019t have a better stealth operative than somebody who\u2019s already a Democrat, who is following orders issued by me, C-in-C USOC, the Commander-in-Chief US, Operation Chaos. But now we\u2019re near the end of the process. I think we can readily acknowledge and let it be known here just as you\u2019ve done here that there are plenty of Operation Chaos operatives who have already registered Democrats because they are Democrats.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You have Operation Chaos members embedded in the university faculty here. They come to my office, they close the door, and they say, ‘Operation Chaos.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: In Gainesville? No kidding. Gainesville. Well, now this is something. You are alerting me to troop levels that I was unaware of.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We\u2019re here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. Alan, thanks so much for the call.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Appreciate it. Faculty members at the University of Florida come to his office and close the door and say, ‘Operation Chaos.\u2019 (laughing)<\/p>\n

Brad in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s a real pleasure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, you\u2019re welcome. I listened to the business yesterday with Obama denouncing Reverend Wright, and I thought I\u2019d listen to how Chris Matthews and the Hardball people dealt with it. They had a roundtable and Andrea Mitchell was there and another fellow and some female reporter. And it was going about as one might imagine with those folks —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — female reporter says, ‘This might be to Obama\u2019s advantage.\u2019 And she alluded to Hillary in New Hampshire breaking down and getting sort of the sympathy vote.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And she then said, ‘Obama is having trouble with the white women voters,\u2019 and she said how they then might feel sorry for him, so they played the victim card a couple of hours after this announcement, and I thought to myself, ‘Isn\u2019t Rush just going to love this.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: We predicted it. We predicted sympathy, that they would be sympathetic, and that they would say it was courageous. Now, a question, because I saw a little bit of Hardball yesterday afternoon. Is the female reporter you\u2019re talking about Tamron Hall? Was she from Chicago?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes, she was because she attended that church of Reverend Wright\u2019s.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I watched this and I was fascinated by it because she\u2019s an anchor! She\u2019s a news anchor at PMSNBC, and they had her on offering commentary because she\u2019s from Chicago, and so she was the south side of Chicago expert in the roundtable yesterday.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hm-hm. Yes. That\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s who it was. All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That was she, hm-hm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I appreciate the call out there, Brad. Thanks very much. Yeah, it was a sympathy play, and ‘Is this going to be it? Can we get this behind him now?\u2019 They so want this to be over, because they are in the tank for Barack Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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