{"id":30684,"date":"2008-10-21T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T05:01:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-10-26T09:27:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:27:18","slug":"day_two_rush_and_general_powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/21\/day_two_rush_and_general_powell\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Two: Rush and General Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Folks, I have to tell you, this is chilling to me. It hadn\u2019t hit me until our last caller who said they\u2019re investigating Palin, Obama investigating Palin and Joe the Plumber, and they haven\u2019t come up with anything substantive on Joe the Plumber. Now, who the hell are the Obama campaign to be investigating a private citizen? He is not part of the McCain campaign. He has had no relationship with John McCain over the years. John McCain never heard of Joe the Plumber \u2019til Joe the Plumber asked the question of Barack Obama. Now, there are some very questionable people in Barack Obama\u2019s past that the Drive-Bys will not investigate, will not look into, will not tell us anything about, but yet they haven\u2019t found anything substantive on Joe the Plumber. So you have media propaganda and investigations to help one party. Who the hell are they to be investigating a private citizen? That is an indictment of the Obama campaign and what it is and what it portends. They haven\u2019t found anything substantive on Joe the Plumber… yet. But it won\u2019t stop \u2019em if they find nothing from maybe making something up, will it?What is happening to us? What is happening to our political system here? Average citizens targeted by a presidential campaign, and this average citizen asked a question, made a fool and a buffoon out of the candidate by making the candidate open up and be honest about what he really plans to do. And now we\u2019ve got Biden out there taking this campaign to the last place the Obama campaign wants it to be. Maybe General Powell, you out there, Secretary Powell, you listening? Maybe now that you\u2019ve heard what Senator Biden said, that Obama is going to guarantee us a major crisis because he will be tested, McCain would not be tested, they know McCain, Biden in effect said this, perhaps, General Powell, you can explain again why you support Obama and Biden. And maybe those who say that Sarah Palin\u2019s not qualified can explain to us again just how Biden is qualified. Not only is Biden a dunce, but he has been wrong on every foreign policy question of the last decade.<\/p>\n

Maybe General Powell can help us out here in understanding why it is that Sarah Palin is so unqualified and Joe Biden, a genuine dunce, who has taken this campaign to the last place it wants to be. General Powell, are you prepared to go out and campaign? I know you said you weren\u2019t going to campaign. Are you prepared now to try to clean up this mess by telling us how qualified Obama is to deal with this test that\u2019s coming? By the way, General Powell, in a number of other things that he said about endorsing Obama, he said the Republican Party\u2019s getting too narrow. Did you catch that? He said the Republican Party is getting too narrow. Now, I\u2019m beginning to wonder about Secretary Powell\u2019s powers of perception. That means the Republican Party\u2019s nothing but a bunch of right-wing extremists that he doesn\u2019t like. He doesn\u2019t like people that are against affirmative action, apparently. He doesn\u2019t like people who are pro-life, apparently. The Republican Party\u2019s getting too narrow? How many monologues have I given saying that with McCain the Republican tent\u2019s too damn big? The Republican Party, Secretary Powell, has been out trying to attract people like you!<\/p>\n

Do I need to calm down here? Am I a little — the Republican Party, General Powell, has been trying to throw people like me out of it. The Republican Party, with Senator McCain, has been trying to get independents, trying to get moderates, people like you. We have been trying to get independents and moderates and Democrats, by the way, to come into our party as Democrats, not conservatives. We\u2019ve been trying to get independents to come into our party as independents, which means Democrats, not as Republicans. That\u2019s what the McCain campaign is all about; that\u2019s what the McCain nomination was all about. General Powell, for you to say that you don\u2019t support McCain because the Republican Party is getting too narrow is a dead giveaway, sir. That\u2019s the last thing anybody would say about John ‘Amnesty\u2019 McCain. When you go down the list of McCain\u2019s Democrat positions, McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, to say that McCain\u2019s campaign is narrow because of Sarah Palin? And of course Tom Brokaw wasn\u2019t going to call him on any of these things. He wasn\u2019t going to call him on the surge or anything of the sort.<\/p>\n

Yeah, the party has moved too far right. Look here: ‘Schwarzenegger to Campaign for McCain in Ohio.\u2019 Schwarzenegger! He\u2019s not exactly your pro-life, anti-affirmative action hick hayseed going to NASCAR races, General Powell. Isn\u2019t this, by the way, the Colin Powell who was first appointed to a big job by Mr. Conservative, Ronald Reagan? Wasn\u2019t it Ronald Reagan who pinned the four stars on General Powell? It was, ladies and gentlemen. And wasn\u2019t it George H.W. Bush who named him chairman of the Joint Chiefs, another Republican? And wasn\u2019t it George W. Bush who named him secretary of state? Yes, another Republican. By tomorrow this time, the political impact of the Powell endorsement will be mostly irrelevant, but his betrayal will be forever. And you people in the Drive-Bys who have been out there claiming that my disagreeing when Powell says his endorsement of Obama is not about race, and I say, yes, it is, it\u2019s totally about race, is a transformational figure, what else is transformational about Obama if not his race?<\/p>\n

Everybody knows that Democrats in the media think history is being made here. What\u2019s so hard to admit you\u2019re supporting a guy because of race? And they\u2019re trying to tell me that I\u2019m being racist and that I\u2019m accusing Secretary Powell of being a racist. I\u2019m not accusing him of being a racist. The Democrats have gotten away with defining our language or redefining our language for far too long. You bring up William Ayers, you are mean-spirited. You bring up Wright, you\u2019re a racist, and now you say that General Powell\u2019s endorsement of Obama is because of race? ‘You can\u2019t say that, who do you think you are? Who does Limbaugh think he is?\u2019 Let me tell you a little story. A friend of mine has a daughter in high school. Yesterday, the daughter shows up, it\u2019s a history class, a constitutional history class or some such thing. She\u2019s a senior in high school, shows up, and the teacher starts lambasting me to these seniors in high school. ‘Did you hear what Rush Limbaugh said about Colin Powell? Can you believe Rush Limbaugh\u2019s a racist? Rush Limbaugh is as racist as anybody I ever — I can\u2019t believe that Rush Limbaugh would say that about Colin Powell, that\u2019s horribly racist,\u2019 and apparently there are a lot of black students, and the teacher is asking, ‘What do you think of Limbaugh? Do you think he\u2019s racist?\u2019 All their hands go up.<\/p>\n

So what you have here is electioneering going on in a high school history class, citing what I said. These kids are 18, some of them are 18, they can vote. So you\u2019ve got this teacher who\u2019s electioneering. What I said, my simple quotes to Jonathan Martin. ‘Jonathan, he says it\u2019s not about race. Okay. I\u2019m going to search all the inexperienced white liberals that he\u2019s endorsed. I\u2019ll get back to you with what I find.\u2019 Not only is that not racist, it\u2019s brilliant, if I say so myself, because it expresses it in a number of ways. What I\u2019m saying is, well, this is interesting. He says it\u2019s not about race, but where all the inexperienced white liberals? Of course it\u2019s about race. And then when I said — now, nobody brings this one up — but he said he couldn\u2019t deal with two more Republican appointments to the Supreme Court. I said, ‘I didn\u2019t know he disliked John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia.\u2019 I guess he also doesn\u2019t like the fact that it was Republicans that made him who he is. This is betrayal.<\/p>\n

What General Powell did is betrayal, and of course he\u2019s gonna say it\u2019s not about race, but if Biden were the nominee you think he\u2019d be endorsing Biden? Do you think he would endorse Hillary? It\u2019s possible. I\u2019ll tell you why. Because in addition to the race factor here, what\u2019s most important to Colin Powell is Colin Powell. And that means what\u2019s most important to Colin Powell is his standing in the New York-Washington elite corridors of power, and he has been on thin ice since the Iraq war and since he went up there to the United Nations and made the case for Saddam\u2019s weapons of mass destruction. So this gets him back in good graces, this gets him back in good stead. In addition, do you think General Powell knew that Scooter Libby had not leaked anything, that his own assistant, Richard Armitage did? And do you think that General Powell might have just sat on the sidelines during the Scooter Libby investigation as a way of getting back at the Bush administration because he thinks they embarrassed him by sending him up there to make that statement, which so threatened his relationship with the people he most covets, the New York-Washington power elite? So with the endorsement of Obama, takes care of that. Look at what he had to look past, by the way, too.<\/p>\n

Claudia Rosett, National Review Online, big, important piece. He had to ignore the United Nations oil-for-food program in making this endorsement, a number of other things. It\u2019s clear that General Powell is looking out for General Powell, which a lot of people do. But to say that my saying that he\u2019s choosing to endorse Obama is racist, I never said that. I said he\u2019s making the choice based on race and a number of other things. Plus, now the Republican Party\u2019s moved too far to the right. How does that strike you, you conservatives who think the Republican Party is trying to do everything it can to disavow conservatives running the party. So, by this time tomorrow, the political impact of the Powell endorsement will be mostly irrelevant, but his betrayal will be forever. And I would still love to hear what General Powell has to say about what Biden said. Maybe he can explain again why he supports Obama and Biden after what Biden said. And maybe those who say that Sarah Palin is not qualified, can explain to us again how Biden is, despite being the biggest dunce in a presidential campaign I can remember in the last 20 years.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Just one more stab at this, folks, this Colin Powell business. I\u2019m not calling him a racist. I\u2019m saying he\u2019s disingenuous. It\u2019s not about racism. It\u2019s about his lack of candor. He can\u2019t admit what\u2019s obvious. Race plays a huge role. The whole campaign is about race. It\u2019s ‘historic.\u2019 Why is it historic? There\u2019s only one thing that makes it historic, and that\u2019s the race of the Democrat nominee. It\u2019s certainly not his issues, not his policies. He\u2019s not The Messiah. He didn\u2019t come from a virgin birth. There\u2019s nothing out there that makes this historic other than that. Why can\u2019t you Democrats acknowledge this? What\u2019s so hard about it? Just say it! Be proud of it! It would have been refreshing if Secretary Powell had stated the obvious, not danced around it. But, see, if he\u2019d admitted it was about race it wouldn\u2019t have helped him with the media. So… You know, in all these things you gotta take \u2019em into account.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Maybe General Powell can help us out here in understanding why it is that Sarah Palin is so unqualified and Joe Biden, a genuine dunce, who has taken this campaign to the last place it wants to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":400265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nDay Two: Rush and General Powell - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/21\/day_two_rush_and_general_powell\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Day Two: Rush and General Powell - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Maybe General Powell can help us out here in understanding why it is that Sarah Palin is so unqualified and Joe Biden, a genuine dunce, who has taken this campaign to the last place it wants to be.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060221-Rush-Police.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"9 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/21\/day_two_rush_and_general_powell\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060221-Rush-Police.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060221-Rush-Police.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":360},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/21\/day_two_rush_and_general_powell\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/21\/day_two_rush_and_general_powell\/\",\"name\":\"Day Two: Rush and General Powell - 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