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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, yesterday CNN Late Edition, Wolf Blitzer had this exchange with Barack Obama advisor Anita Dunn.<\/p>\n

BLITZER: I\u2019m going to play a little clip, Anita. I want you to you listen to what Rush Limbaugh said on Wednesday before we knew that Joe Biden was, in fact, the running mate. Listen to what Rush Limbaugh said.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I really hope it\u2019s Biden. We don\u2019t want to say that too loud, but I really do hope that it\u2019s Joe Biden \u2019cause we\u2019ve got a mountain of archival audio on Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

BLITZER: ‘A mountain of archival audio on Joe Biden.\u2019 Joe Biden has been on television and on the radio a lot over the years. How worried are you that the McCain campaign, the Republicans, are now going to throw back at you all of the stuff — a lot of the comments — that Joe Biden made over the years?<\/p>\n

DUNN: Well, you know, Wolf, I think that, Um, Rush Limbaugh doesn\u2019t need a lot of help from our campaign with audio from our show. He makes it up if we don\u2019t give it to him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Let me tell you something, Anita. You guys are giving me problems. I\u2019m on information overload today. I\u2019ve got more than I can squeeze. I don\u2019t know what to do first. I can\u2019t decide which of what you people are doing is most newsworthy in terms of incompetence and foolishness and outrageousness. I\u2019m sort of in a paralysis mode here trying to figure it all out. Make it up? You people have been writing my script here — I\u2019m sorry. Your candidate has been writing my script here for about six months. Make it up? Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, Anita, and let\u2019s listen to this. This is September 1988 on the campaign trail. This is on C-SPAN, it\u2019s an exchange between a man identified only as Frank and Biden, and Frank asks Biden a question: ‘What law school did you attend, and where did you place in that class, and the other question is…\u2019<\/p>\n

BIDEN: I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect! I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my — in my class, uh, to have a full academic scholarship. And the first year in law school I decided I didn\u2019t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class and then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school and in fact ended up in the top half of my class. I won the international moot court competition. I was the outstanding student in the political science department at the end of my year. I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school and 165 credits — I only needed 123 credits — and I\u2019d be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours, if you\u2019d like, Frank.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And it turns out that when you do some research you find out that half of what Biden said there is not true, and he had to later go back and revise his remarks. This is the year that he openly plagiarized Neil Kinnock, Lord Kinnock, the great labor leader from Great Britain. Here\u2019s more archival audio on Joe Biden for you, Anita. This is July 23rd, 2007, Charleston, South Carolina, during a YouTube debate. Viewer Jered Townsend said, ‘Good evening America. I\u2019m Jered Townsend. I\u2019m from Michigan. To all the candidates, tell me your position on gun control, as myself and other Americans really want to know if our babies are safe. This is my baby, purchased under the 1994 gun ban. Please tell me your views. Thank you.\u2019 Anderson Cooper says, ‘Senator Biden, are you going to be able to keep his babies safe?\u2019<\/p>\n

BIDEN: If that\u2019s his baby, he needs help. Uhhh… (mocking laughter) I don\u2019t know that he\u2019s mentally qualified to own that gun. I\u2019m the guy that wrote the assault weapons ban. Look, we should be working with law enforcement right now to make sure that we protect people against people who don\u2019t — are not capable of knowing what to do with —<\/p>\n

COOPER: Time.<\/p>\n

BIDEN — a gun because they\u2019re either mentally unbalanced and\/or because they have a criminal record.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) So he just insulted the guy in the YouTube question by basically saying he\u2019s insane and doesn\u2019t have the right to own a gun. Here is something a little bit more serious. This is Meet the Press September 9th of 2007. Tim Russert says to Joe Biden, ‘General Petraeus said in a letter to his troops, ‘My sense is we have achieved tactical momentum and wrested the initiative from our enemies in a number of areas of Iraq. We are, in short, a long way from the goal line, but we do have the ball. We are driving down the field.\u2019 Is that what you expect him to say tomorrow?\u2019<\/p>\n

BIDEN: He\u2019s dead, flat wrong. The fact of the matter is that there is — that this — uh — this idea of the security gains we made have had no impact on the underlying sectarian dynamic. None. None whatsoever. Can anybody envision a central government made up of Sunni, Shi\u2019a, and Kurds that\u2019s going to gain the trust and respect of 27 million Iraqis? There have been some tactical gains, but they have no ultimate bearing at this point on the prospect of there being a political settlement in Iraq that would allow American troops to come home without leaving chaos behind.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it. Joe Biden, once again, proudly wrong on Petraeus, proudly wrong on the surge — and remember, this is the guy that\u2019s been brought aboard the ticket to shore the ticket up on foreign policy. Joe Biden was one of the many Democrats back in 2007 who had invested in the defeat of the US military and the United States of America in Iraq. Now, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve seen it or not, but there is a deal — the Iraqis are now saying there is a deal — to get all the troops out of there by 2011. Precisely what Biden said couldn\u2019t happen and wouldn\u2019t happen has happened, and he\u2019s just wrong. He has the entitlement to be wrong here. Everybody is entitled to make mistakes here and there, but this was more than just being wrong. This was hoping for defeat. This was hoping that everything would fall apart. The motivation that carried this view, held by the Democrat Party throughout 2007, regarding the surge, is profound. <\/p>\n

The American people are going to find out about it if they weren\u2019t paying attention. Something interesting is happening with the Drive-Bys. The Drive-Bys are frustrated. One thing I want you to believe me on if you haven\u2019t believed me on anything else, this party in Denver is in trouble and they know it and they do not understand it, and the Drive-Bys are in trouble. They know it, and they are puzzled as well. They know that their guy is going to have to have a 10- to 15-point lead going into Election Day, the last week — and if he doesn\u2019t, he\u2019s toast. They know that they\u2019re tied after picking Biden. They are frustrated because they think that they succeeded in turning public opinion against the war in Iraq, and the Drive-Bys are now trying to turn the public\u2019s opinion toward Obama, and they\u2019ve been doing so for a year. <\/p>\n

Now, they can\u2019t figure out, ‘How come we were able to turn public opinion against the war but we\u2019re not able to do the same thing on Obama?\u2019 Well, I\u2019ll tell you. I\u2019ll give you two good reasons why. Number one, public opinion on the war was never what the Democrats and the Drive-Bys portrayed it to be. Public opinion on the war was never to lose it. Americans don\u2019t like losing. We don\u2019t want to go out of there in humiliation. What the American people wanted was to kick butt, and win, and come home. They were impatient with the pace of things. The American people did not want to lose. The Drive-Bys thought they had to convince the American people that defeat was all that was possible, so let\u2019s declare it and get out of there. The second thing is, in terms of why they\u2019re unable to turn people on Obama is that they weren\u2019t able to turn them on Iraq. They\u2019ve been living an illusion. <\/p>\n

The illusion is that all they have to do is give this in-the-tank support for Obama and the American people are going to follow along, but the problem is the American people know more than the Drive-By Media gives them credit for. The Drive-By Media and the Democrats have as their central characteristic (besides anger) a condescending arrogance that assumes everybody other than them is stupid, uninformed, uneducated, and unsophisticated. As they continue to view the elector this way and the entire American population this way, they are going to forever continue to be surprised at what the American people do. The American people have full knowledge of who Obama is. The American people saw him on parade. You Drive-Bys have put him out there for everybody to see, and it\u2019s quite understandable. It\u2019s not hard to figure out Barack Obama. He has insulted the very voters that he needs when he goes to these elite fundraisers. They know all this. They know the trouble they\u2019ve put themselves in, both with their nominee and their vice presidential nominee, but they are incapable of doing what\u2019s necessary to fix this, or to solve the problem. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just checked the e-mail, a guy said, ‘Rush, you\u2019re falling for the rope-a-dope. You\u2019re spending all your time here on Biden when the subject is Obama, and Obama would love for you to start talking about Biden and not him.\u2019 My friends, do not start thinking through this thing to the point that you get too smart by half. There\u2019s no question this is a 150% ultra-leftist ticket, and it is topped and it is led by a community agitator leftist from the wards of Chicago. There has been an attempt to make him respectable with the addition of an inside — oh, by the way, this is another thing I don\u2019t believe. Who was it that said this? It was Linda Douglass, who used to work at ABC and NBC, and she was a hack for Democrats then, but she left the news business and went to the Obama campaign. But it was a lateral move because they\u2019re one and the same. Even Fast Eddie Rendell at a forum yesterday afternoon pointed out that MSNBC is in the tank for Obama and it\u2019s embarrassing to him. He\u2019s a Hillary guy. Lou Dobbs on CNN said, ‘My colleagues are in the tank for Obama.\u2019 So Linda Douglass leaves ABC, CNBC, NBC, wherever she was and goes to the Obama campaign, but she hasn\u2019t left the news business. The news business is running Obama\u2019s campaign and vice versa. <\/p>\n

Do you know what she said to counter the criticism that Obama chose a Washington insider when his campaign is for change? Even the New York Times realizes that\u2019s blown. They\u2019re saying forget the lofty rhetoric on Thursday night, pal, you gotta come out with something specific. You can\u2019t go change-hope-future with a guy who\u2019s been in the Senate five years longer than McCain. So she said, ‘Well, he\u2019s not a Washington insider.\u2019 Get this, now. This is the spin. Linda Douglass said he\u2019s not a Washington insider. (paraphrasing) ‘Joe Biden goes home every night to his family in Delaware, takes a train home. He\u2019s not of Washington.\u2019 Really? So you have to live there; you have to go to dinner there; you have to pal around at the bars and the cocktail parties in order to be of Washington. What you do as a senator for 30-some-odd-plus years when that\u2019s all you\u2019ve done, there\u2019s nobody near the Democrat ticket that\u2019s run a business, that\u2019s met a payroll, that\u2019s done anything but be in government and see to it that it\u2019s as big and as powerful and as intrusive in people\u2019s lives as possible. <\/p>\n

By the way, they\u2019re saying at their convention that the purpose is to introduce Obama to Americans. Now, I know what they\u2019re thinking. They\u2019re thinking it\u2019s time to introduce Obama \u2019cause this is when most of America starts listening and paying attention to politics. But, Drive-Bys, you\u2019ve already introduced him. You introduced him in Berlin, you introduced him in Baghdad, you introduced him in your newspapers and on your air for the past year to the point that people are now sick of Obama, to the point now people are sick of this messiah business, to the point people are tired of this. They\u2019re really getting tired. Backlash? Who told you? Who told you there was going to be a backlash on this foreign trip? It was I, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned Maha Rushie, and there\u2019s going to be another one after this convention \u2019cause this convention is going to go so over the top and overboard, everybody at this convention is going to be presented as a messiah, and Obama is going to be the last messiah that is going to be presented. <\/p>\n

Now, before we go back to more archival audio from Biden and your phone calls, here\u2019s this. It\u2019s a transcript of Biden in June of 2006 on Meet the Press talking about the Haditha massacre. Now, when you hear Biden talking about this you must keep in mind that he was totally wrong about Haditha, just like Jack Murtha was and Biden has not apologized nor has Murtha. Eight of the Marines charged for that so-called massacre and the cover-up have already been exonerated. One case is still pending. Here\u2019s Russert: ‘Let me ask you a question on Iraq about Haditha, some of the other alleged atrocities. The fact is, our government knew about that for some time. How high up the chain, based on your information, do you think this goes?\u2019 Biden: ‘Secretary of Defense.\u2019 Russert: ‘What should be done about Rumsfeld?\u2019 Biden: ‘He should be gone. He shouldn\u2019t be in his office tomorrow morning, but I\u2019m so tired of saying this on your show. I\u2019ve been saying this for two years.\u2019 ‘Well, the president knew about Haditha in March.\u2019 ‘Well, we can\u2019t get rid of the president. He\u2019s there for two and a half more years. There\u2019s a system of accountability. The system of accountability is it used to be a gentlemanly thing, as they say, when you make serious mistakes, you step forward, you acknowledge them, and you walk away. Presidents can\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t do that. Secretaries of Defense can and should.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Biden has just given us a bunch of reasons why he should step down or have stepped down over the years. He\u2019s made mistakes, wrong on the surge, wrong Haditha, joining these cattle calls to put these Marines in the barracks and in the dock and court-martial \u2019em, and they\u2019re all but one exonerated. The list doesn\u2019t stop. You go back to Biden in 1988, 20 years ago, talking about qualifications for president. You go back and listen to him say why he\u2019s gotta be elected. In 1988 we\u2019re coming out of eight years of Reagan, and he\u2019s talking about how rotten the world thinks of us, how horrible our reputation is in the world, we need our respect back, and it\u2019s a replay. It\u2019s verbatim for what the Democrats have been saying for the last two years, and he goes on to say that you can\u2019t have a rookie in the White House, you need people with experience. He\u2019s got the qualifications down, and he gave the surefire reason why Obama should not even be president back in 1988, and he\u2019s the guy that\u2019s been picked. And don\u2019t forget, we haven\u2019t even gotten to Pelosi yet on the Catholic Church and abortion and the fact that she doesn\u2019t realize that natural gas is a fossil fuel. Back to the archival audio. Where are we here? Up to sound bite number five. This is January 30th, 2007, in an interview with the New York Observer, Biden said this about Obama.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: I mean you got the first sorta mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, when this happened, and it caused a little bit of a furor, but not much. It didn\u2019t cause near as much of a furor as it would have if, say, a Republican had made this statement, but the Drive-Bys, ‘Oh, you know, this is Joe, that\u2019s just Joe. He\u2019s funny what comes out of his mouth sometimes.\u2019 You see, there\u2019s this double standard. A liberal cannot be a racist, and it\u2019s impossible for a conservative not to be one. A conservative automatically is by virtue of the DNA, liberals can\u2019t possibly be racists, so there\u2019s a double standard. Here\u2019s July 2006, this is more Biden on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin\u2019 Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I\u2019m not joking.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, isn\u2019t Bobby Jindal speaking at the Republican convention? Bobby Jindal is Indian-American, and Governor Jindal, I hope you say something at your convention speech. ‘By the way, I\u2019d like to make a comment here to Senator Joe Biden. Senator Biden, my name is Bobby Jindal and I\u2019m Indian-American, and I do not work in a 7-Eleven. I am the governor of Louisiana.\u2019 One more Biden and we\u2019ve got mountains of this stuff, folks. This is just little telltale here for today, October 25th, 2007, Washington Post editorial board. Question: ‘Can I ask you something on that point? If you were to look at the educational results of schools in Iowa, you would find that they\u2019re some of the best in the country. Washington, DC, pays teachers substantially more, so clearly there\u2019s more to it than just we\u2019re not spending enough money.\u2019<\/p>\n

BIDEN: You have to start off with what they start off with. There\u2019s less than 1% of the population of Iowa that is African-American. There is probably less than four or five percent that are minorities. What is it in Washington?<\/p>\n

REPORTER: I think it\u2019s the vast majority.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: Yeah. So, look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you\u2019re dealing with. When you have children coming from dysfunctional homes, when you have children coming from homes where there\u2019s no books, where the mother from the time they\u2019re born doesn\u2019t talk to them, as opposed to the mother in Iowa who is sitting out there and talks to them, the kid starts off with a 300 word larger vocabulary at age three. Half this education gap exists before a kid puts a foot in the first classroom.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so there\u2019s Biden claiming that black mothers do not read to their kids. Michelle Obama, will she say tonight, ‘Senator Obama, I\u2019m a black mother and I have read to my kids long before they started school.\u2019 Of course not, she won\u2019t. We\u2019re going to get more of these kinds of gaffes because he\u2019s going to be more prominent than he has ever been. Right now most of the impassioned audio of Biden comes from his other two campaign forays and when he has attempted to destroy the lives and careers of conservative nominees at various levels of the American bench, judiciary system, and those questions and those comments, we\u2019ve got one coming up at some point, folks, where he was given something like 20 minutes to ask questions and did not get one question asked in 20 minutes, started pontificating, losing his train of thought, then finding his train of thought, losing it again. It\u2019s just hilarious stuff. Now, also Biden is 100% pro-choice. You\u2019ve got an infanticide nominee. You\u2019ve got a guy that\u2019s for infanticide, and you\u2019ve got Biden who has a 100% approval rating from Planned Parenthood, from NARAL, the National Abortion Rights Action League, a 0% approval from National Right to Life, zero from sportsmen and animals alliance, 100% support from the Humane Society, these are his ratings, his votes as a Senator. National tax elimination committee, an F grade, Americans for Tax Reform, 10%, National Association of Manufacturers, 0% approval, ACLU 100% approval, NAALCP, 100% approval. <\/p>\n

You have an unmistakably as liberal a ticket as you had with George McGovern, if not more so, back in 1972. This party has McGoverned itself almost as McGovern did back in 1972 with the Vietnam War, they\u2019ve done it with Iraq. They\u2019re repeating pages from their playbook. It\u2019s just breathtaking. It is breathtaking to watch this party continue to say the same things over and over for 20 years regardless the reality of the circumstances on the ground anywhere, to nominate the same kind of people over and over that for the most part lose. You know, the guy that was best at masking his liberalism from the American people was Clinton. Clinton had to get the votes so he was allowed to portray himself as one of these new Democrat leadership members, a moderate Democrat, the Third Way, you know, above the fray of both parties, while Hillary was out there doing the dirty work of being 100% liberal and choosing all the cabinet appointees, or many of them and so forth. But there\u2019s no way that this ticket can get away with having either one of these two guys be portrayed as anything other than a hard, hard leftist, perhaps more liberal and more anti-American in scope than any ticket the Democrat Party has put together.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One more sound bite and then to the phones we go. This is from Meet the Press in 2007, and this is key now, because, remember, now, Obama — Who knows what I\u2019m going to end up calling these people before it is all said and done. Obiden? Obamadon? At any rate, remember, now, The Messiah said that ‘the most gut-wrenching choice\u2019 he ever made was to not support the Iraq War, which he never did vote on it. He wasn\u2019t in the Senate! Remember this as you listen to Biden here. April 29th, Meet the Press, Biden talking about it. See, Biden did vote for the war, and Biden voted to fund the war. See, the Democrats, for all this talk the American people wanted out of Iraq and the American people wanted us to lose, they knew damn well that wasn\u2019t the case. They never once succeeded in defunding the operation in Iraq. If the American people had wanted out of there on the terms of the Democrat Party and the Drive-By Media, then they would have demanded that war not be paid for. This ties into a comment I made about a half hour ago. They\u2019re sitting and they\u2019ve depressed themselves. They\u2019re upset. They can\u2019t figure out what happened. They were so able to turn public opinion against the war (that\u2019s where they\u2019re wrong. They did not do that, but they think they did) they don\u2019t understand why they can\u2019t thus turn the American people and their opinion for Obama. So Obama\u2019s ‘most gut-wrenching choice,\u2019 was deciding against the war. Here is Biden on Saddam and WMDs.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: The point is it turned out they didn\u2019t, but everyone in the world thought he had them. The weapons inspectors said he had them. They cataloged them. This was not some Cheney, you know, uh, pipe dream. This was, in fact, cataloged.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Obama has chosen somebody who did the exact opposite of the ‘most gut-wrenching\u2019 thing he ever did. He has picked Joe Biden who said: We had no choice. We had to take Saddam out. We had to do it. Now, how is this going to square with the anti-war crowd? This pick is one of utter desperation. They\u2019re putting the word out that he really wanted Kathleen Sebelius, but that they couldn\u2019t do that \u2019cause that would make the Hillary voters angry. So he couldn\u2019t do this, he couldn\u2019t do that. So he settled for Biden. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Rich Lowry in National Review Online today had a interesting observation about Biden\u2019s speech Saturday, his acceptance speech. Biden said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, if your kitchen table is like mine, you sit there at night after you\u2019ve put the kids to bed and you talk about what you need, you talk about how much you\u2019re worried about being able to pay the bills.\u2019 Now, the question is, does Biden still put his kids to bed because they don\u2019t live at home? I know he\u2019s trying to relate here. His kids, by the way, are doing quite well. We\u2019ll have details on this coming up in just a moment. I checked into this comment. You know, Obama\u2019s hack spokesman, Linda Douglass, said, ‘Ah, he\u2019s not really of Washington. He takes a train home to Wilmington every night.\u2019 <\/p>\n

We checked the Amtrak schedules, and you can figure he\u2019s spending an hour and a half each way. He gets out at the train station, just walks across the street and he\u2019s at the Capitol, unless he runs into a 7-Eleven and wants to get a cup of coffee where they speak Indian in there, and he doesn\u2019t have an Indian accent, so it may take him a little time in there to get them to understand that he wants a cup of coffee, to walk across the street to the Capitol building. But basically he\u2019s spending three hours a day commuting. Let me cut to the chase of this. Everybody\u2019s got their in-depth analysis, but let me say something. I mentioned this many moons ago. Here is the reason that Biden was chosen. Two words: White men. That\u2019s why it wasn\u2019t Hillary; that\u2019s why it wasn\u2019t Kathleen Sebelius. White men. Obama cannot win without white men. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Walter in Arlington Heights, Illinois, you\u2019re next. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. I haven\u2019t heard anyone yet mention the behavior of Joe Biden when he was interviewing Robert Bork for a position on the United States Supreme Court. If it\u2019s possible for you to play any of that, I know the American people would learn something. That man is evil, and Judge Bork is about as fine a man as you could get, and Biden denied us the right to have Judge Bork on the Supreme Court, where he would have done no end of good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you gotta give us time out there, Walter, because we can\u2019t squeeze it all in here in an hour and a half. We got all that. We got Clarence Thomas, how he carried the water with anti-Clarence Thomas. That\u2019s the point. I mean Biden has participated in the attempt to destroy the lives, not just careers, of a number of eminently qualified Americans, carrying the water for the Democrat Party and the American left, and all these things will be replayed. See, the arrogance of liberal Democrats is — in fact, let me go to this story right now. This is an eye opener for you. You know as well as I do the Democrat Party and American liberals run around thinking that they represent the vast majority of the thinking, if not the party affiliation, of the people of this country. Now, the American media, the Drive-Bys and the American left, are far more, for example, obsessed on race than the American people are. The American people, been there, done that, they can see the situation improving. We\u2019re not obsessed with it. They are. They\u2019re obsessed with race. So you have a black guy like Clarence Thomas come along, eminently qualified, far more experience than, say, Obama has, far more experience than a lot of other nominees that have come up. And you\u2019ve got Obama saying, (paraphrasing) ‘I didn\u2019t think he was qualified and I don\u2019t think he\u2019s that smart.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, why does Obama think this? Obama\u2019s never read what he\u2019s written. If he did, he would see that Clarence Thomas has written opinions that agree with Obama on certain cases, at least as Obama has stated, and it really boils down to what is and how you define liberalism, which we\u2019ve spent countless hours and days and weeks on this program doing. But when you have an American liberal, I don\u2019t care what their race, religion, you have an American liberal look at a black guy who is not a liberal, there is one thing: Uncle Tom, deserter, stupid. No black person in America can possibly think what Clarence Thomas thinks or what Thomas Sowell thinks or what Walter Williams, they just can\u2019t. It\u2019s not even worth exploring. It\u2019s not even worth examining. They\u2019re traitors, and they are treated like traitors by the American liberal establishment and they have to be destroyed, too, and in Clarence Thomas\u2019 case it was very clear why. Here was a man who, by his virtual ascension to the Supreme Court and with the impeccable life that he had led up to the point of his nomination, here\u2019s a guy that put the lie to every tenet of the left\u2019s prescription on civil rights that you can\u2019t get anywhere without the civil rights coalitions in this country on the left being behind you, pushing you, and setting the stage for you. Because America is so racist, America is so imperfect, that only the concerted efforts of leftists can see to it that black people can get anywhere, and here Clarence Thomas got everywhere he has without them. That posed one of the biggest threats to them ever. The most powerful black man in America on the Supreme Court fighting what they believe in, they couldn\u2019t allow that. So he\u2019s dumb, he\u2019s stupid, he\u2019s unqualified, case closed, never even asked to prove it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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