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RUSH: If you haven\u2019t heard this, you haven\u2019t heard these things batten down. We have two sound bites on Sunday. Donna Brazile, otherwise reasonable, restrained, has lost it. The whole Democrat Party has just lost it. She\u2019s on Wolf Blitzer\u2019s Late Edition. Wolf says, ‘The issue of being a community organizer. Now, we know a lot of those community organizers are in the big urban areas and there\u2019s some suggesting that when the Republicans, whether Giuliani or Palin, went after Obama for being a community organizer, there was a racial overtone there.\u2019 First off, would somebody please explain to me, how can there be a racial overtone when Obama is black? He\u2019s already black. There\u2019s already a racial overtone here brought to us by the Democrats. It was the Democrats in the primary who played the race card consistently. This idea here that the Republicans are calling him a community organizer is race related, he\u2019s the one that called himself that! He\u2019s proud of his community organization efforts. Racial overtones? Once again a cliche, a mindless twitter cliche from the liberal Democrat playbook of 50 years ago that\u2019s alive and well, the Democrat Party, Drive-By Media surfaces. It\u2019s Obama who\u2019s talking about his community organizer work, as though he is proud of it. Racial overtones? At any rate, here\u2019s Donna Brazile.<\/p>\n

BRAZILE: Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is just grasping at straws, folks, we\u2019re shooting fish in a barrel here. I mean, they\u2019re not even making this a competition. Jesus was a community organizer? Pontius Pilate was a governor? Sarah Palin is going to crucify Obama? Is that what we\u2019re supposed to take out of this, because Obama is the new messiah? Jesus Christ was the first messiah. Now Obama is taking his place, he\u2019s The Messiah, he\u2019s the savior. Pontius Pilate was a governor? The only thing Pilate is remembered for is murder. We are comparing the governor of Alaska, who is only qualified, say the Democrats, because she has not had an abortion, which is murder, of murder. Pontius Pilate was a governor? They expect this to play to who? And from this bunch, that just insists on separation of church and state, and it happened on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday. Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

COHEN: I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, that the parties have differences, but if you want change, you want the Democratic Party. Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Somewhere in the Obama campaign, somewhere in the Democrat Party, somebody has come up with this. Somebody has come up with this line, and they\u2019re all out there using it. Could anything illustrate more vividly how genuinely out of touch the Democrat Party is? You talk about mean-spirited. And, by the way, the great thing about Palin — and there are many things about Palin — but the great thing about what is happening with her or what she\u2019s causing, so much of what\u2019s happening in this campaign is giving the total lie to everything the liberals have told us that they are for, that they respect, that they are going to champion and promote. They have been forced into trying to destroy the very things they claim they\u2019re for: racial equality, female equality, all this stuff. No, it\u2019s not about race, it\u2019s not about women. It\u2019s about liberalism. No. Pontius Pilate did not wear lipstick. That I know.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want to go back here. Donna Brazile, ladies and gentlemen, on CNN\u2019s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer last Sunday.<\/p>\n

BRAZILE: Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor, and perhaps they should understand the role of a community or-organizer to help people in distress.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, FDR was a governor, folks. I guess he was Pontius Pilate, too. Germans might think so. Japanese might think so. Bill Clinton was a governor. Bill Clinton was a governor. Barack Obama was a community organizer. Bill Clinton was governor. Pontius Pilate was a governor. Let me tell you something, Senator Obama. I know Jesus Christ. I pray to Jesus Christ all the time. I study what Jesus Christ did, and said, all the time. And let me tell you something, Barack Obama: You are no Jesus Christ. I say the same thing to you, Donna Brazile, same thing to you, Steve Cohen: Your guy is no messiah. Your guy is no Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n

You\u2019re going to try to tell us next that Mary and Joseph were homeless all because Joseph forgot to guarantee the American Express card at the inn, guarantee the reservation, show up homeless, get kicked out to the manger. Jesus is born. All of a sudden, he organizes 12 guys, said, ‘I\u2019m going to do some miracles here, but I can\u2019t do them for everybody. You\u2019re going to need health care. You\u2019re going to need government-sponsored health care, and I am going to promise to cut taxes on 95% of the people in Israel.\u2019 Is that what we are next going to be told? This is just over the top. It is pathological. There is so much hatred coursing through these people\u2019s veins that it is impossible to understand and calculate.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Senator Obama, I should also pass along to you, sir: I\u2019ve read the Gospels. I\u2019ve been searching the Gospels a lot lately in fact for any evidence that Jesus Christ supported infanticide as you do, and I can\u2019t find any such references to Jesus promoting infanticide. Nor do I find any references to Jesus Christ suggesting sex education be taught to four- and five-year-olds. But I\u2019m still looking, sir, in the New Testament, and I\u2019ll let you all know if I come up with anything.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Our old buddy Steve Gilbert at Sweetness-Light.com has traced back the first known — via Nexis search — the first established, the first we can find reference to the phrase ‘Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.\u2019 It was a blog poster by the name of Laura on a Washington Post blog on September 4th. So once again, a left-wing kook, a member of the lunatic fringe of the Democrat Party posts something on the Washington Post blog called The Fix, by the way, and mainstream Democrats pick it up: Donna Brazile, Steve Cohen. And as I said at the close of the previous hour, ladies and gentlemen, studying the Gospels, as I have, I have yet to find any reference to Jesus Christ promoting infanticide as Senator Obama does, nor am I able to find any reference in the Gospel to Jesus Christ suggesting that sex education, comprehensive sex education be taught in kindergarten, as Senator Obama has supported. So you Fruit Loops out there on the left that are coming up with what you think are catchy phrases and forcing this stuff on your so-called mainstream Democrats, you are falling down a hole. You are into a dry well that you are never going to be able to climb back out of. And I encourage you to keep digging. Between this and Biden, it\u2019s Christmas. It is Christmas every day here on the EIB Network. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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