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RUSH: Cheryl in Montgomery, Alabama, I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, thank you. Rush, I just wanted to make a couple of comments. One of them is, you know, I\u2019m just really curious as to why you feel it necessary to continue to run excerpts of Reverend Wright and Reverend Wright and Reverend Wright, as if your listeners aren\u2019t intelligent enough to make decisions based on the issues.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because he keeps talking.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m saying, but why do you keep giving him a platform? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Because I don\u2019t believe Barack Obama\u2019s statements about him. I don\u2019t believe anything Obama is saying about this, and Obama is running for president.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, if that\u2019s the case then, if it\u2019s based on what it reflects about Obama, then why is it that you were such a staunch supporter of Mitt Romney, and he belongs to a church that, he says, you know, at one time —<\/p>\n

RUSH: This isn\u2019t about religion.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — black people were human.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cheryl, Cheryl, Cheryl.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — why isn\u2019t that an issue with you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cheryl.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re not going to sit here and use this program to start telling a bunch of garbage about religions when this is not about religion.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he said it himself that they no longer subscribe to that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, nope, nope, nope. My objection to Jeremiah Wright has nothing to do with religion. As long as he keeps it in the church —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it doesn\u2019t have anything to do with religion, it has everything —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Then why did you bring up Romney? What\u2019s Romney got to do with it? Your comments about Romney were totally religion based. This is about —<\/p>\n

CALLER: You said that you\u2019re holding Barack Obama responsible for the things that his — supposedly he believes in the same thing that his pastor believes in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, I\u2019m not saying —<\/p>\n

CALLER: So, if that\u2019s the case, then — <\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re missing the point here, madam.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — why wasn\u2019t that same standard applied to Mitt Romney? But that\u2019s just a question. You don\u2019t have to answer it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: For one thing, Romney did not have a wacko, lunatic fringe, anti-American preacher running around saying this is what I told in my church and Romney was in the audience. We are examining the character of people who run for the presidency of the United States of America. Who they associate with, like this nutcase preacher, is crucial for us because Obama\u2019s a blank slate. He\u2019s been trying to hide who he is. We\u2019re starting to find out. That\u2019s why you don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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