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RUSH: The haughty John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, was on DNCTV yesterday. The info babe anchorette Alex Witt talked to Senator Kerry, who served in Vietnam. And she said, ‘A 20-year relationship, Reverend Wright married him, he was the one who baptized — godparent, in essence, to his two daughters. How personally painful is this for Barack Obama?\u2019<\/p>\n

KERRY: Well, Alex, could I just say something to you? Obviously, it\u2019s painful, and he said it. But you know something? You folks need to let go of this. Television needs to stop dwelling on something that is in the past. I think you guys have gotta focus on the things that really matter to the American electorate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Like…?<\/p>\n

KERRY: I think the other thing is just worn out, old history now. This guy had his narcissistic moment, and it\u2019s finished.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not over yet, Senator Kerry. We haven\u2019t heard the last of the narcissist Reverend Jeremiah Wright. I think it takes a narcissist to know one. This is rich, Senator Kerry, the haughty John Kerry, calling Jeremiah Wright a narcissist. Mike, we gotta go back, because he\u2019s just given me an example. I gotta find Michelle (My Belle) Obama. Yes, audio sound bite number nine, before we get back in order. Michelle (My Belle) Obama was on the Today Show today, along with her husband, Barack, who, in case some of you forgot, is running for president. Meredith Vieira said, ‘Michelle, do you personally feel that the reverend betrayed your husband?\u2019<\/p>\n

MICHELLE OBAMA: You know what I think, Meredith? We gotta move forward. You know, this conversation doesn\u2019t help my kids. You know, it doesn\u2019t help kids out there who are looking for us to make decisions and choices about how we\u2019re going to better fund education.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, come on. You think the kids are worried about how you\u2019re going to fund education? All they want is to be able to play at recess. They can\u2019t even play at recess anymore. In fact, I saw there\u2019s a story, I didn\u2019t print it out, but there\u2019s a story, school district somewhere is looking to hire somebody, pay \u2019em $46,000 a year to work one hour a day managing play, permissible play during recess at some grade school. But you can\u2019t play dodgeball, you can\u2019t play tag, you can\u2019t do anything. Anyway, this is the old Clinton line. Bob Dole really reamed him in a debate, and Clinton said, ‘No attack ever fed a hungry child,\u2019 and here\u2019s Michelle (My Belle) Obama, ‘Well, that\u2019s not doing anything about kids,\u2019 and so forth. ‘Can\u2019t we move on to the future?\u2019 This is pathetic. You people in the Obama campaign are disappointing me. For example, where are the Obama spokespeople? You in the Obama campaign, I know you\u2019re worried the next shoe to drop is going to be Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn. Why not put them to work? Have them go out and talk about their good friend Susan Rosenberg? Does the name ring a bell, folks? <\/p>\n

Do you people in the Obama campaign even know who Susan Rosenberg is? She was a terrorist in the Weather Underground, and Bill Clinton pardoned her on his last day in office, out from under a 58-year sentence for terrorist bombings. So, yeah, you think you\u2019re waiting for the next shoe to drop on Bill Ayers, where is the Obama campaign out there talking about Bill Clinton, husband of Hillary, pardoning a Weather Underground terrorist. And, by the way, there\u2019s another name, Linda Evans. Linda Evans, another Weather Underground terrorist that Clinton pardoned on his last day in office, out from under her 40-year sentence for terrorist bombings. Who knows Rosenberg and Evans better than Ayers and Dohrn? Come on, Obama, you got Ayers and Dohrn out there. Go out and get them talking about the associations with the Weather Underground that the Clintons have. This campaign is really letting me down. It\u2019s disappointing me. Frankly, Obama, I\u2019m getting tired of having to waste precious broadcast time here on the EIB Network telling you how to straighten this out. You have people out there speaking for you like John Kerry?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Dick Durbin sort of like loses his cool lecturing Andrea Mitchell. She played this sound bite for Durbin. This sound bite is Obama right after his ‘courageous\u2019 press conference on Jeremiah Wright going right back to his old line of blowing off the Wright story. So this is a sound bite from Tuesday night, Senator Obama in Hickory, North Carolina, after the big press conference on Jeremiah Wright.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: They\u2019re talking about, uhh, W-w-what — what? W-who is he? Do we know his values?\u2019 and, ‘He\u2019s not wearing a flag pin right now,\u2019 and, you know, ‘His former pastor said some crazy stuff.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So she plays Durbin that sound bite, and then she says, ‘Isn\u2019t he trying to trivialize an issue that only a couple hours earlier said was really very important and needed to be acknowledged?\u2019<\/p>\n

DURBIN: Andrea, is there any way Barack Obama could have been clearer or more unequivocal in denouncing what had been said by Reverend Wright? I mean how — how much more do you want? He made a clear break with him.<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: I don\u2019t want anything more from him, senator. <\/p>\n

DURBIN: Well, I —<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: I — I think he was very clear and very unequivocal.<\/p>\n

DURBIN: I think he was very clear!<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: I\u2019m just asking whether he\u2019s being consistent —<\/p>\n

DURBIN: No, let me tell what —<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: — when he goes to North Carolina and speaks on the stump. <\/p>\n

DURBIN: No, let me tell you. <\/p>\n

MITCHELL: That\u2019s all I\u2019m asking.<\/p>\n

DURBIN: I — I\u2019m going to tell you. I didn\u2019t hear his whole speech, but I\u2019ll betcha I can fill in the next paragraph or the one before it; and that is when he goes up to voters in North Carolina and Indiana and says, ‘What\u2019s on your mind?\u2019 they don\u2019t stop and say, ‘I\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t talk to you. You don\u2019t have a lapel pin on!\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you what, Durbin is one of Obama\u2019s big sponsors, and they\u2019re falling apart. They are coming unraveled in the Obama campaign. I heard a lot of anger; I heard frustration. He wanted to lash out. He was holding it back; some of it still spilled over. This is a man enraged at the audacity of the question! But we heard this is what Obama was doing. He gave this great speech and press conference on Reverend Wright, and the guy goes out and is joking about it a little bit later on. They\u2019re frazzled. The nerves are frazzled. They know in the Obama campaign, and it\u2019s just like — What the hell is that! Look at that snowstorm moving through. What is this, May the 1st? Denver, Colorado: westbound lanes of I-70 closed just west of Denver! (whispers) Global warming. At any rate, they\u2019re coming apart at the Obama campaign. They know it. The superdelegates know it. Operation Chaos. Andrea Mitchell then says, ‘Do you think he\u2019s at all vulnerable with the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee hammering him on some of these down ticket races on these cultural issues, with polling showing at least the elitist quote tag seemed to stick a little bit in Pennsylvania against Obama?\u2019<\/p>\n

DURBIN: It boggles my mind that they call Barack Obama an elitist. This man was born so far on the other side of the tracks that he couldn\u2019t hear the train, and now they\u2019re calling him an elitist.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, Senator Durbin? You may be able to insult the intelligence of the Drive-By Media and your Democrat buddies, but not us. Elitism has nothing to do with wealth. Elitism has everything to do with attitude, an attitude of superiority, an attitude of being better than everybody else. That\u2019s Obama\u2019s life. Certainly his young adult life, into college, he hung around these people in the academy, and they all are elitists! They all think what he said about the clingers, the ‘bitter\u2019 clingers. He\u2019s genuinely surprised by it. I think Obama and his wife are both elitists in that regard, and I think they are shell-shocked; because I think they thought that what they found in academe was America, other than the rubes that are the bitter clingers. They have been shocked to learn that there are far more bitter clingers than there are elitists that run around academe. I think they\u2019re shocked. I think they are out of touch! We move on now to Whiteville, North Carolina. At a Hillary Clinton campaign event, former President Bill Clinton speaking. (laughing) Whiteville, North Carolina! Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton i\u2019s in Whiteville, North Carolina. And this is what he said.<\/p>\n

CLINTON: She gonna end this thing roaring. (hooting) And what are they going to say if she wins the popular vote? ‘I\u2019m sorry, we\u2019re going to give it to the caucus states that are going Republican in November?\u2019 (grumbling) No. All these people that tell you she can\u2019t win; they\u2019re rushing trying to get all these people to declare for and send it off and cut you off or stomp your voice? Don\u2019t you believe it! You\u2019re still in the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bill Clinton in Whiteville, North Carolina, (laughing) where the white vote is abandoning Obama throughout the state. (laughing) The first black president in Whiteville! (laughing) You know, she is starting to look like she\u2019s in more control here. This is what\u2019s happening here. She does appear like she\u2019s in control of this process now. I\u2019m just talking about when she\u2019s on TV versus Obama. That\u2019s why this Andrew guy abandoned her today and went over to Obama, the former DNC chair. I guarantee… (interruption) Yeah, she doesn\u2019t look in control at the gas station. That was bad. She did not look in control going for the coffee. That was not a good angle to shoot her from, and it was not a good and example. But, you know, stuff happens. As far as the Clintons, like I said, ‘That was yesterday. Forget about it. It never happened.\u2019 They\u2019re clearly in the now and strategizing moving forward. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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