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RUSH: Now, as we mentioned, Hugo Chavez gave our president, Barack Obama, an American-bashing book, blaming America for all of the problems from colonialism to the CIA to all the economic problems, all the political problems of the Western Hemisphere. He gave Obama the book. There\u2019s a picture of Obama smiling, accepting the book, looking at the cover of the book. And, of course, the book shot up the Amazon list. I think he looked at the cover of the book because he had a copy. He probably had a copy of the book already, says, ‘Jeez, how do I…? Okay, I gotta act like I don\u2019t know what this is,\u2019 but I\u2019m sure it\u2019s in his library somewhere. I\u2019m sure Obama has already read this book. He went down to the Summit of the Americas and pretty much repeated the theme of this book. I don\u2019t have the title of it in front of me, but it zoomed up the Amazon.com list. Now, we have a montage here of the Drive-By Media in America. George Stephanopoulos, Chuck Todd, Savannah Guthrie, just a whole bunch of them. They\u2019re excited as hell about this.<\/p>\n

TODD: (outside) It was at 54,000-plus in the Amazon.com rankings, now up to number seven. <\/p>\n

GUTHRIE: (outside) That book is now at number two on the Amazon best-seller list. Its previous position, 54,295.<\/p>\n

JAKE TAPPER: Its Amazon.com sales rank was 54,295. Just now I checked, it\u2019s seventh! <\/p>\n

SAM DONALDSON: It was 58,000, something like that, on Amazon.com. It\u2019s jumped to 20th. <\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: Top ten this morning! <\/p>\n

JULIE BANDERAS: It is the (sound effect) number two best-seller on Amazon.com, it was 54,295th position.<\/p>\n

DON LEMON: It\u2019s number two — number two! — on Amazon.com\u2019s best-seller list tonight. <\/p>\n

FREDRICKA WHITFIELD: Now it is number two, that book, on Amazon.com!<\/p>\n

GERALDO RIVERA: Ranked 54,295th, it is now number two on Amazon.com! An astonishing climb!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Can you believe this? Can you believe the excitement in the Drive-By Media that an anti-American book, filled with lies, given to our president by Hugo Chavez? The Drive-Bys are excited at how rapidly it climbed the Amazon list. But do you know there\u2019s something interesting they left off of this in their report. Yes, it went from 54,000-plus up to second place. But do you know what it failed to unseat at number one? Mark Levin\u2019s Liberty and Tyranny<\/a>. Despite this all-out effort by the Drive-By Media to push this book after Obama had accepted it from Chavez, the leftists in this country start buying this book. Look at how many people had to buy this book to move it up that much — a book that blames America for all of the problems in the Western Hemisphere — and it shoots up to number two, but not even Fox News — not even Fox News, who was part of the montage here with Julie Banderas and Geraldo Rivera — could bother to mention that it failed to unseat what was at number one (what is at number one, and it\u2019s been this way throughout the weekend) Mark Levin\u2019s Liberty and Tyranny. And so a book that is devoted to the principles of the American founding — liberty and freedom, American exceptionalism — a book that talks about people\u2019s love for their country, is at number one. And the Drive-Bys can only talk about what a mammoth, mammoth increase: 54,000-plus to number two, thanks to Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama. Here\u2019s also a montage. This is from yesterday. This is various members of the administration dismissing the handshake between Obama and what\u2019s-his-face, Chavez.<\/p>\n

DAVID AXELROD: Words and handshakes are — are nice, but they\u2019re not enough. <\/p>\n

LARRY SUMMERS: Relationships depend on more than smiles and handshakes. <\/p>\n

NSC SPOKESMAN DENIS MCDONOUGH: While handshakes and photographs and smiles are important, they\u2019re certainly not good enough. <\/p>\n

GOVERNOR ED RENDELL (D-PA): The noise I hear is all about, ‘How did he shake hands with Hugo Chavez? How did he accept the book?\u2019 What was he supposed to do?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s just a handshake, what\u2019s the big deal? Maybe… You know, here\u2019s the thing: Why are these people putting it down? These are all Obama supporters. ‘Oh, what\u2019s the big deal? He shook hands.\u2019 Why are they making mincemeat out of it? They know it\u2019s not good politically. They know that it doesn\u2019t make any sense. ‘What\u2019s he supposed to do when Chavez hands him a book?\u2019 These are the kind of things you take care of before you get there, before the photo-ops happen. If you don\u2019t want them to happen, they won\u2019t happen. They wanted this to happen. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Obama. This is yesterday in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and the White House correspondent for CNN Dan Lothian asked the president this question: ‘During the campaign were up criticized by some within your own party for perhaps not being able to be tough on foreign policy matters. Now you\u2019ve had this friendly interaction with Chavez. Are you concerned at all about how this might be perceived back in the US as perhaps going soft? Already one Senator is calling this friendly interaction ‘irresponsible,\u2019 and as a quick follow-up, if I may, when you got the book from Mr. Chavez, what did you really think?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I-i-it was a nice gesture to, uh, give me a book. I\u2019m a reader. (pause) We had this debate throughout the campaign. I mean the whole notion was is that somehow if we showed courtesy or opened up dialogue, uh, with governments that had previously been hostile to us, uh, that that somehow would be a sign of weakness. The American people didn\u2019t buy it, and there\u2019s a good reason the American people didn\u2019t buy it. ‘Cause it doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What doesn\u2019t make sense? ‘We showed courtesy or opened up dialogue with governments that had previously been hostile to us, somehow it would be a sign of weakness\u2019? What else would you call it to run around the world and apologize for your country? By the way, the name of the book that Chavez gave Obama is: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. And the pillaging was done by the United States in this book. It\u2019s by Eduardo Galeano. And he didn\u2019t say what he thought of the book. He didn\u2019t answer that question. Well, he did. He continued the answer with this…<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Venezuela is a country, uh, defense budget is probably one-600th of the United States. They own CITGO. It\u2019s unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or having a polite conversation with Mr. Chavez that we are endangering the strategic interests of the United States. Even with this imaginative crowd, you think you would be hard-pressed to paint a scenario in which US interests would be damaged as a consequence of us having a more constructive relationship with Venezuela. So if the question, Dan, is, ‘How does this play politically?\u2019 I don\u2019t know. One of the benefits of, uhh, my campaign and how I\u2019ve been trying to operate as president is, I don\u2019t worry about the politics. I try to figure out what\u2019s right in terms of American interests, and — and on this one I think I\u2019m right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s not representing American interests. He\u2019s representing his interests. This is all about him. It\u2019s not about the United States. The Obama theme song… <\/p>\n

(playing of Obama spoof song ‘I\u2019m Sorry\u2019) <\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘White comedian\u2019 Paul Shanklin, the official Obama theme song, I\u2019m Sorry. He says, ‘Even with this imaginative crowd you\u2019d be hard-pressed to paint a scenario in which US interests would be damaged as a consequence of us having a more constructive relationship with Venezuela.\u2019 ‘How does that more constructive relationship happen?\u2019 is the question. Does it happen by converting an enemy to an ally? No! It happens by virtue of Obama going down there and agreeing with Chavez and his opinion of the United States of America. ‘Yeah, we were wrong. Yeah, we\u2019ve done horrible things. Yep, everything in that book that you gave me? Yep, that\u2019s true. We gotta show these people we don\u2019t mean them any harm. We gotta apologize to them.\u2019<\/p>\n

So the whole concept of American exceptionalism doesn\u2019t even exist. I want to add some more to this. I remember mentioning this during the campaign. It didn\u2019t matter then, and of course it may not matter now. But back in November of 2006<\/a>, there was an education forum in Caracas, Venezuela. President Hugo Chavez was there. He had invited Bill Ayers, the man who introduced Barack Obama to Chicago politics. Bill Ayers is a good friend of Barack Obama\u2019s. Chavez invites Ayers to come down and attend an education seminar, an education forum in Caracas. And this is what Ayers said. The first thing he did is he ‘proclaimed his support for ‘the profound educational reforms under way here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Ch&aacute;vez. We share the belief,” Bill Ayers and Chavez, ”that education is the motor-force of revolution. . . . I look forward to seeing how you continue to overcome the failings of capitalist education as you seek to create something truly new and deeply humane.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Ayers concluded his speech by declaring that ‘Venezuela is poised to offer the world a new model of education — a humanizing and revolutionary model whose twin missions are enlightenment and liberation.” Now, Ayers and his buddies at the Annenberg Project and whatever educational projects that Ayers is a part of, he believes that the purpose of education is to indoctrinate public school students in the belief that America is a racist, militarist country, and that the capitalist system is inherently unfair and oppressive. That\u2019s Barack Obama\u2019s buddy, Bill Ayers (about whom nobody cares during the campaign) in November 2006, getting an award from Hugo Chavez, our new friend in Caracas, Venezuela, praising Chavez for reforming education, turning it into a means of social revolution, opposing capitalism and militarism. And that is what Ayers\u2019 curricula here in the United States attempts to do. <\/p>\n

Now, again, we\u2019re probably going, ‘Well, Obama didn\u2019t know anything about that! Obama didn\u2019t know that Ayers went down there. Obama doesn\u2019t know what Ayers\u2019 curricula construction is all about. Obama doesn\u2019t know this.\u2019 Of course not. No, Obama doesn\u2019t know, he just goes down there and yuks it up with the guy who honors his friend, Bill Ayers. He goes down there and accepts a book (Open Veins of Latin America, Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.) Oh, but Obama doesn\u2019t know anything about this. ‘No, no, no, Rush. He can\u2019t possibly know anything about this at all.\u2019 Basically what you got, is you got Bill Ayers down there applauding Hugo Chavez for teaching Marxism in the public schools and agreeing that this is what needs to happen in the United States to get rid of the capitalist system and to get rid of the notion of American militarism. <\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re going to say, as he did to the press, ‘I think you\u2019d be hard-pressed to paint a scenario in which US interests would be damaged as a consequence of us having a more constructive relationship with Venezuela.\u2019 Mr. President, if you\u2019re going to go down there and you\u2019re going to yuk it up and laugh it up with the guy, and if you\u2019re going to accept his premises as a means of forging a new relationship — as a way of getting rid of the ‘failed ideologies of the past,\u2019 which has now become a trademark line. If you\u2019re going to accept the premise of every nation that hates this country as a means of forging a new relationship with those countries, then in the end you yourself, if you\u2019re going to accept their premise, are agreeing with it, that the US is the one that needs to change. <\/p>\n

The United States needs to be cut down to size. The US needs to reform its education system. The US needs to be made smaller, the US is guilty. Well, hell\u2019s bells, anybody could form new relationship with the Crips and Bloods, if that\u2019s all you had to do. I could forge a new relationship with the American left. Do you realize how big and popular I could be if I called the American left leaders and say, ‘You know what? You people are right, and you\u2019ve been right all this time and I\u2019ve been wrong, and I want to apologize for Ronald Reagan. I want to apologize for every talk show host that\u2019s ever come before me, including Larry King. I want to apologize for everybody!\u2019 They would love me! They\u2019d love me, and they might doubt it at first, but it wouldn\u2019t take me long, couple days, to prove my sincerity, if that\u2019s where I really was. <\/p>\n

I mean, that\u2019s easy to make friends that way. It\u2019s easy as hell to make friends with your enemies by telling them they\u2019re right and apologize to them and say, ‘Please don\u2019t hold me personally accountable. Please don\u2019t hold me accountable. Go ahead and blame Roger Ailes! Roger Ailes is responsible for Fox, I\u2019m not — and don\u2019t blame me for all of talk radio. Don\u2019t blame me!\u2019 I could easily become the most favorite liberal personality in media. It\u2019d be easy. Just go apologize, prostrate myself, bow down, kiss the ring, accept some of their books, promise to get my mind right. It would be easy. Would I be forging new relationships? Yeah, between me, not my country, and not my ideological brethren, between me and them — and that\u2019s what Obama\u2019s about. It\u2019s all about him.<\/p>\n

By the way, he\u2019s out there saying he doesn\u2019t worry about the politics of this? That\u2019s absolutely crazy. What\u2019s Al-Qaeda\u2019s defense budget? He says Venezuela has a defense budget one-600th of ours. What\u2019s Al-Qaeda\u2019s defense budget? He doesn\u2019t worry about the politics? So he\u2019s canceling those daily morning meetings with all these left-wing groups? Is that what this means? He doesn\u2019t care about this anymore? Was the election about Barack Obama meeting with every nut-job in the world? I seem to recall he flopped all over the place on that point after first saying yes and then saying he would require preconditions. What were the preconditions? There aren\u2019t any preconditions. He didn\u2019t even establish as a precondition, ‘Don\u2019t give me an embarrassing book at a photo-op.\u2019<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Saratoga, New York, let\u2019s grab some phone calls here. This is Mel. Nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Good afternoon there, Rush, how are you today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just fine, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree with most of what you say, but a lot of times it turns out to be right-wing spin. When you take Chavez and you take Barack Obama, don\u2019t say for one minute just over a handshake that Chavez doesn\u2019t know if he steps out of line, that this great nation of the US of A will crush him like a bug. But the fact of the matter is that Obama\u2019s not a fool, either. If he knows that what Chavez has on the ground over there in his country, that that affects how we live our way of life here and how much we have to lay out each month in our budgets, our personal budgets, our household budget, to get by. And that oil is the linchpin of economic prosperity here in this country, or pressure, personal pressure on individual families and corporations —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait — hold it a minute. Are we talking about Venezuela or the United States here?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m talking about Venezuela. Hugo Chavez has as his natural resource to sell to us at a lower rate because — I mean Barack Obama is — you know, he\u2019s not going to ostracize this guy, he knows he has what we need, and we\u2019ve got what Chavez wants, money. To keep the pressure off individuals here in this country, and if — what I mean is by doing that, is having cheap — cheap —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — pay less money.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not getting your point. What\u2019s the point here?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the point here is that, you know, Chavez, you have to talk with one another, you have to talk to people, regardless if they\u2019re your enemy or not. I\u2019m sure when you were coming up as a young man, and today, you know, you got people that really don\u2019t like you, and you have people that you don\u2019t like, but you don\u2019t go out and bare knuckle them every day. You have to deal with them, you gotta talk to them, you\u2019ve gotta be around them, even though you don\u2019t like them. You know, vice-versa.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, if that\u2019s your point, Mel, I don\u2019t talk to my enemies, I don\u2019t talk to them. I don\u2019t have to talk to them to know what they think. I don\u2019t have to talk to them to know what they believe about me. They say it anyway. My enemies are not to be gotten along with. I\u2019m not out to show my enemies that I care about them. I\u2019m not out to show my enemies that I\u2019m not what they think I am. I\u2019m out to defeat \u2019em. I don\u2019t run around apologizing for myself. I don\u2019t run around apologizing for my success. We need what Chavez has, oil? If we would drill our own — this is what\u2019s stupid. We go kiss the hand of the Saudi king, and we go down there, bow down to Hugo Chavez. Why? Because they both have oil? We have oil, too! We just don\u2019t have a president that wants to go get it. We don\u2019t have a Democrat Party wants to go get our own. We rather have a Democrat Party that would like to see their president run around and kiss the ass of people like the Saudi king and Hugo Chavez who is a blatant anti-liberty communist and socialist dictator! <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to get along with people like that. We could squash \u2019em like a bug, you say? Who have we squashed like a bug recently? The last time we tried to squash anybody like a bug, the president and his people get sued for committing torture. The last time we tried to squash people like a bug were the people that killed 3,000 Americans, and your party tried to do everything it could to stop us from succeeding in defeating that enemy. Now your party has a president that\u2019s now kissing ass with people who hate the United States of America, and accepting books from people who have written how this is the worst place in the world, the United States — you can have it, but I\u2019m not going to try to become friends with ass — people like that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so we have to talk to each other, right? When was the last time President Obama spoke to me? He doesn\u2019t speak to me. He\u2019s directed his hacks to attack me while he makes friends with enemies of the United States of America. Talk to your enemies? Don\u2019t fall for it, you saps.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We go to Philadelphia, Rich, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re next. It\u2019s your big show biz break.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was looking at these pictures over the weekend, and I got just a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. It was just awful to see this man hobnob with tyrants and be so comfortable with them. And as far as I\u2019m concerned, what he says is no different than Jeremiah Wright except he says it in a more socially acceptable way, but his ideas are exactly the same.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it certainly matters who his mentors were, and it certainly matters who his associates are. Well, it\u2019s amazing how much Obama doesn\u2019t know despite how smart he is. ‘Well, he didn\u2019t know Reverend Wright was saying all that. He didn\u2019t know that Bill Ayers was doing all that bombing. And he didn\u2019t know Blagojevich was doing anything wrong in Illinois. He didn\u2019t know that Mayor Daley was doing — he didn\u2019t know anything. He\u2019s such a nice guy, couldn\u2019t possibly have known.\u2019 Here, listen to this, Friday night, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, President Obama, after Ortega\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: To move forward, we cannot let ourselves be prisoners of past disagreements. I\u2019m very grateful that president Ortega — (applause) I\u2019m grateful that president Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old. That too often an opportunity to build a fresh partnership with the Americas has been undermined by stale debates. I didn\u2019t come here to debate the past. I came here to deal with the future.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but on what framework? ‘I\u2019m glad he didn\u2019t blame me for things I did when I was three months old.\u2019 It sounds like he said that Ortega was right about America before the arrival of The Messiah. (paraphrasing) ‘I\u2019m glad he didn\u2019t blame me for things happening when I was three months old, but we don\u2019t want to think about the past anymore, with stale ideas of the past, stale debates. I didn\u2019t come here to debate the past. I came here to deal with the future.\u2019 Yeah, but on what basis? Do you come to debate the future accepting the premise of these tyrants and dictators of the United States, their premise of us as a mean-spirited, dangerous, murderous country? The last famous person who said ‘I didn\u2019t come here to talk about the past, I want to deal with the future,\u2019 was Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals before a congressional hearing on steroids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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