{"id":29533,"date":"2008-06-06T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:45:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:45:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:45:18","slug":"rush_translates_maya_angelou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/06\/06\/rush_translates_maya_angelou\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Translates Maya Angelou"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: This is CNN\u2019s Election Center last night. Campbell Brown and Jessica Yellin, two babes have an arousal gap, Obamagasm talking about this guy.<\/p>\n<p>YELLIN: Campbell, the audience here clearly thought he can do anything or anything he does is in his reach. He took off his jacket, and let\u2019s take a look what happened when he did that for a moment. (cheers and applause) Just for taking off his jacket. I wonder what would have happened if he\u2019d loosened his tie. Campbell?<\/p>\n<p>BROWN: And there are those who say he has a women problem, huh? <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So they\u2019re going bonkers, even the female reporters. No, no, no even pretense of objectivity. Let\u2019s listen to Maya Angelou, who did the poem at Bill Clinton\u2019s inauguration in 1993, The River, the Rock, and the Tree. Remember that? Cookie, see if you can find that. I mean I know we have it in our archives. I watched this, I watched Maya Angelou deliver the poem at the inauguration, The River, the Rock, the Tree, and Clinton just got that W. C. Fields total grin on his face, (doing Clinton impression) &#8216;This is so great, I just love that.\u2019 It was gobbledygook. Anyway, Larry King said to Maya Angelou, &#8216;You wrote a poem in praise of Hillary that starts: &#8216;You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may tread me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I\u2019ll rise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125116.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignright\"\/>ANGELOU: And she has risen, she has dared, and that is fabulous. You know, just think of this little young white woman, coming out, deciding she\u2019s going to be the president of the United States of America, and to see her sticking it when people laughed at her, and there were those who decided she could not stick to it, she would not go on, she would fall, and she stayed. And, you know, I believe in going out with whom you came in with. I believed in her and I stuck with her, and when she said, this is it, then I said, &#8216;Now I will support Senator Obama.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wow. Just wow. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We have one minute here of Maya Angelo\u2019s poem A River, A Rock, A Tree from the Clinton inauguration. The whole poem ran over six minutes so we just have one minute of this, but this is enough, and it actually isn\u2019t gobbledygook. Not just gobbledygook, it\u2019s&#8230; Here. Here, listen to this. I\u2019m going to have to translate this for you and I\u2019ll be happily able to do it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125116.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright\"\/>ANGELOU: A Rock, A River, A Tree \/ Hosts to species long since departed, \/ Marked the mastodon. \/ The dinosaur, who left dry tokens \/ Of their sojourn here \/ Any broad alarm of their hastening doom \/ Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. \/ But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, \/ Come, you may stand upon my \/ Back and face your distant destiny, \/ But seek no haven in my shadow. \/ I will give you no more hiding place down here. \/ You, created only a little lower than \/ The angels, have crouched too long in \/ The bruising darkness, \/ Have lain too long \/ Face down in ignorance. \/ Your mouths spilling words \/ Armed for slaughter. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, this went on for another five minutes, Maya Angelou and the inaugural poem for Bill Clinton in 1993. Let\u2019s go back to the top of this. (doing Maya Angelou impression) &#8216;A rock, a river, a tree hosts to species long since departed, marked the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens of their sojourn here.\u2019 Now, what is a &#8216;dry token\u2019? What is a dinosaur &#8216;dry token\u2019? Exactly right, Mr. Snerdley. This is a poem about dinosaur excrement. This is a poem about dinosaur dung &#8216;who left dry tokens of their sojourn here on our planet floor.\u2019 So here\u2019s the president of the United States, who\u2019s been inaugurated, and he\u2019s getting a poem here about dinosaur dung read in his honor by Maya Angelou. And of course &#8216;their sojourn here on our planet floor, any broad alarm of their hastening doom is lost in the gloom of dust and ages, but today the rock cries out to us clearly, forcefully: come, you may stand upon my back and face your distant destiny.\u2019 The mastodon is a dinosaur elephant, and that\u2019s what marked the mastodon, the dinosaur. So it\u2019s mastodon dinosaur dung. If you go through the whole thing, it actually is a very, very partisan poem with some vulgarity to it &#8212; and of course it appealed to Clinton\u2019s ego because this was a poem for him about what he faced, and we\u2019re no different than dinosaur dung, but Bill Clinton\u2019s gotta go stand on the rocks out there and take us all on his back, but he can\u2019t hide. He can\u2019t be in the shadows. He\u2019s gotta be on the back and gotta be everybody\u2019s back &#8212; and of course it almost happened, but he ended up sitting down in the Oval Office rather than laying down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: This is CNN\u2019s Election Center last night. Campbell Brown and Jessica Yellin, two babes have an arousal gap, Obamagasm talking about this guy. YELLIN: Campbell, the audience here clearly thought he can do anything or anything he does is in his reach. 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