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RUSH: Amarillo, Texas, this is Andrew. Andrew called us, what was it, last week, Andrew, that you called us?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir, last week, the day of the tea party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right, called the day of the tea parties, and you weren\u2019t quite certain what their point was because you were convinced that most people loved Obama because you thought that\u2019s what the media was saying. So to what do we owe this great pleasure of your calling back?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I would just like to tell you, coming from a Democrat — once again, I can\u2019t stress this enough — coming from a Democratic point of view, when I called your show, I did not get what all these people had this grievance, this grievance with President Obama for, I did not get it. After going to the Amarillo tea party, in front of the post office, talking to people there, I began to realize what they were saying, and it started to hit me. How much truth they had with this single subject here, how much truth they were speaking. I realized, you know, all the different packages and plans Obama had put in place since he has been in office, and, like I said, it hit me like a ton of bricks after interviewing all these people, talking to all these people, how much they are right and the government is overspending, overspending with our money.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is fascinating. Let me ask you a question about this. Going to the tea parties and talking to the people there was the first time, I\u2019m assuming, I\u2019m asking, the first time you had heard the real reasons they were there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The real reasons they were there you had not heard because you had only been informed by virtue of the media?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was hearing from CNN, MSNBC —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — that these people were just protesting the presidency, I guess you could say, they were mad, that\u2019s what I was hearing from CNN and MSNBC.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. And so now your eyes have been opened, and you\u2019ve learned exactly why these people were there. Did you learn that they\u2019re not threatening to you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think that they were threatening to me, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. Well, they were portrayed that way as being threats to America, threats to Obama. That\u2019s why I asked.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They were pretty much nice people?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, they were very polite people, they were very polite. As a matter of fact, I introduced myself coming from a Democratic point of view, and they were still very nice to me and let me talk to them. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sure they were eager for you to understand how they felt since they finally had a chance to tell you directly. These people know that what they believe and stand for is being inaccurately reported in the media. I\u2019m sure they looked at the opportunity to talk to you, as just that, a great opportunity. I\u2019m glad you went, Andrew.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. So am I.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So where are you now, after you\u2019ve gone to the tea party, after you understand where these people are coming from, and you\u2019ve agreed with some of what they believe.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I do, and even hitting on today\u2019s subject, today\u2019s subject with Hugo Chavez, I am a firm believer that, for God\u2019s sake, that is a man, Hugo Chavez, who called President Bush the devil, who just last month called Barack Obama himself an ignorant man and has done nothing but tear down the United States. Why would we want to be associated with somebody like this?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s a good question. It\u2019s an excellent question and you\u2019re right, he did call Barack Obama an ignoramus. This was back on March the 2nd or the third or somewhere around there. At any rate, and then he gave him the book to help enlighten Obama about the destructive tendencies of the United States of America in this hemisphere so that he no longer would be an ignoramus. And Obama accepted it, smiling, with handshakes and so forth. You know, here\u2019s something for you to ponder, and I mentioned this at the beginning of this hour. Barack Obama is far more willing — and of course we\u2019ve got a lot of liberals out there, ‘We need to talk to people that disagree with us, Mr. Limbaugh, we need to talk to people that have problems with us.\u2019 Fine. Obama\u2019s willing to go talk with all the anti-American tyrants he can find. He won\u2019t talk to me. He will not talk to any conservatives. He tells America not to listen to me. He tells members of Congress not to listen to me. But there he is down there buddying up, kissing ass with Hugo Chavez. You ask why would he do this, and he\u2019s smiling. <\/p>\n

Let me tell you something. When he goes down there, Andrew, this is something for you to consider, when he goes down there and says: (paraphrasing) ‘The stale arguments and stale debates of the past, I\u2019m not interested. We\u2019ve gotta move forward. I\u2019m glad they didn\u2019t blame me for what they don\u2019t like about this country when I was only three months old.\u2019 He didn\u2019t say, ‘How dare you insult my country in front of me.\u2019 He thanked them for not insulting him. So the thing to conclude here, and it\u2019s hard not to conclude this, that he has a degree of agreement with them in their view of America and wants to change America so that they don\u2019t dislike it as much, but he wants to change America on their premise, not ours. It\u2019s also abundantly clear to me, Andrew, that this is all about him. Obama foreign policy, Obama domestic policy is all about him. It\u2019s not about the United States of America. He\u2019s on a cult of personality tour, and I think he buys into this notion that he\u2019s messianic, The One. He\u2019s the one we\u2019ve been waiting for, essentially. I\u2019m glad you called back, I\u2019m glad you went to the tea parties, and I\u2019m close to saying to you, Andrew, welcome home. By the time you call back, I think I\u2019ll be able to full-fledged say, welcome home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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