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RUSH: I have a question I want to pose, and I fully expect this question to be taken out of context, I expect my comments to be taken out of context. This is a question that many people will think is too hot to ask. It\u2019s a toughie. But this question is a legitimate question, and it came to me just by the headlines and watching television and listening to the State-Controlled Media shout racism everywhere. I mean we\u2019ve even got a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Hank Johnson, listen to this, audio sound bite number five.<\/p>\n

JOHNSON: If I were a betting man I would say that it instigated more racist sentiment feeling that it\u2019s okay, you don\u2019t have to bury it now, you can bring it out, talk about it fully. And so I guess we\u2019ll probably have folks putting on white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside intimidating people. And, you know, that\u2019s the logical conclusion if this kind of attitude is not rebuked and Congressman Wilson represents it, he\u2019s the face of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So here you have Hank Johnson, he is a congressman, Democrat in Georgia, member of the Congressional Black Caucus saying the Klan will ride again. Republicans are Klansmen and Joe Wilson is the leader. Keep in mind that the only member of the Ku Klux Klan ever to serve in our government is a Democrat, Robert ‘Sheets\u2019 Byrd. He was a grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan. And in fact let\u2019s go back and listen, audio sound bite number six, March the 28, 1968, Robert Byrd talking about Martin Luther King.<\/p>\n

BYRD: Martin Luther King fled the scene. He took to his heels and disappeared, leaving it to others to cope with the destructive forces he had helped to unleash. And I hope that well meaning Negro leaders and individuals in the Negro community in Washington will now take a new look at this man who gets other people into trouble and then takes off like a scared rabbit.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Robert Byrd, Democrat senator, West Virginia, talking about Martin Luther King, and yet here\u2019s Hank Johnson saying that Joe Wilson of South Carolina represents the new Klan, people gonna put on their white hats and robes and be riding horses through the countryside. So here\u2019s my legitimate question. Our president is the leader of our country and before he gets that title, before he gets that position, you used to have to earn it. All presidents have had to earn their position with scrutiny of their resume, scrutiny of their background, scrutiny of their past performance, scrutiny of the way they campaign, scrutiny of what the candidate says and how he says it and how he performs under fire. And then even when he\u2019s elected to the office, the president of the United States of America, he is heard, he is watched, he is listened to, he is questioned, he is analyzed, he is scrutinized, he is given the media anal exam. That\u2019s the way it used to work. None of this scrutiny has occurred with President Obama. <\/p>\n

There was no scrutiny of his resume. We still don\u2019t know some of the records, haven\u2019t seen some of the records from where he went to school, just like we didn\u2019t see Clinton\u2019s medical records. We have not seen scrutiny of his background. There was no scrutiny of his past performance. He\u2019s got five-minute career, essentially, 185 days working in the US Senate. There was very little scrutiny of his campaign. There is very little scrutiny of what he says. There was a lot of praise for how he says what he says, but there was never any scrutiny of what he said, and there isn\u2019t today. So when any of these checks and balances are MIA, whenever this scrutiny of a presidential candidate does not take place, our nation is headed for trouble. And we are in trouble. When all of these aspects are ignored, when none of this scrutiny takes place, we are in deep, deep trouble, and that\u2019s where we are. <\/p>\n

I have no quarrel with a president of any race. Obama is not black to me. He\u2019s not half black, half white. He\u2019s president of the United States, and as such, given his agenda, he poses a grave danger to the American I believe in. And that\u2019s all that matters to me. I couldn\u2019t care if he\u2019s a hermaphrodite. I don\u2019t care who he sleeps with. I don\u2019t care where he eats. I don\u2019t care what he eats. I don\u2019t care how he drives. I don\u2019t care about any of that. I don\u2019t care about his haircut. I don\u2019t care whether he\u2019s getting gray. I don\u2019t care about his tie. I don\u2019t care about any of this. I care about his intent to remake this country into a country unlike any of us have ever seen. I have serious concerns about today\u2019s media and their new standard, which is this: Any criticism of an African-American president\u2019s policies or statements or misstatements is racist, and that\u2019s it. <\/p>\n

Therefore the question: Can this nation really have an African-American president? Or will the fact that we have an African-American president so paralyze politically correct people in the media that the natural scrutiny and process through which all of our presidents are put through and vetted do not occur because of the fear in the State-Controlled Media of themselves being called racist and the desire to be able to call everyone else racist. In other words, we have a blank slate. We have a president here who is not scrutinized, who is not examined. There is no attempt to be suspicious of power anymore. So is it possible that we really have an African-American president? Or does having an African-American president paralyze the process by which people with that kind of power in our representative republic are kept, quote, unquote, honest? I have a brief timeout here at which time I\u2019m either going to explode in rage or I\u2019m going to fix this audio problem, because I already started out in rage. This racism stuff has got everybody boiling mad because it\u2019s such a lie; it\u2019s such a cheap shot; it\u2019s so dishonest. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Kelly in Fairfax, Virginia. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to take a stab about answering that question whether we can have a black president and I think that the answer is: Yes, if they\u2019re conservative, because conservatives don\u2019t traffic in the politics of race. So you wouldn\u2019t see this happening, if Condoleezza Rice, for example, were president and coming under criticism, you would not need George W. Bush or George H. W. Bush going on TV and saying, ‘Oh, this is about race.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, okay. Good point. However, if we had a conservative… You\u2019re talking about a black conservative —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — African-American president?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well…<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think you\u2019d feel a lot less criticism from the left.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. Any such candidate who might emerge will be destroyed by the Drive-By Media in the campaign process.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, because that\u2019s the double standard of the left. If it\u2019s a conservative, like Michael Steele, he gets Oreos thrown at him. But if it\u2019s a liberal then they circle the wagons and say it\u2019s about race.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They have it both ways.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Well, the point of all this is that the racism in this country exists primarily on the left.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Victimization of people, grouping people, condescension toward average Americans exists primarily on the left. They\u2019re projecting. You know, this is a great illustration of projection. They\u2019re accusing us of behaving exactly as they do. They are accusing us of thinking exactly as they think.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, if I man, Rush, look at the way — you know, Barbara Boxer I think got caught twice doing this. She spoke to the head of the Chamber of Commerce and brought in a study to the NAACP that wasn\u2019t relative to it; and I remember her talking to Condoleezza Rice and being very condescending to her to the point that Rice actually said I think you\u2019re impugning my integrity and she I think said that she couldn\u2019t understand the death of soldiers because she was a single, childless woman.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s — that\u2019s —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not to mention the Aunt Jemima cartoon panels that the left\u2019s editorial cartoonists drew.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re brutal. They\u2019re so brutal when it\u2019s on the other side.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, totally brutal. It\u2019s what we\u2019re up against — and when they\u2019re losing, and when they\u2019re losing control, is when they get even more brutal, and that\u2019s what all this means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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