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RUSH: Now, if all of this racist stuff is not bad enough, yesterday ‘House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) released a helpful, updated primer for members regarding their conduct on the floor and in committees.\u2019 Now, this action they took against Congressman Joe Wilson yesterday, they say it\u2019s the smallest, the least stringent action that can be taken against a member. <\/p>\n

And I\u2019m told (and I happen to believe this) that most of the House leadership wanted no part of this because it opens up the doors to criticizing Charlie Rangel and Barney Frank and all these other things if you\u2019re gonna rebuke this guy — and, by the way, he didn\u2019t call the president ‘a liar.\u2019 He said ‘you lie.\u2019 He accused the president of telling a lie. He didn\u2019t call him a liar. It may be a distinction without a difference. <\/p>\n

But I\u2019m told that the Congressional Black Caucus demanded this rebuke and so the House leadership just had to go along with it, because the Congressional Black Caucus demanded it. Now we\u2019ve got this list of words or thoughts that you can and cannot express on the House floor. America is becoming a shadow of her former self! ‘[T]he section on how to properly insult the executive branch in the chamber. ‘Disgrace\u2019 and ‘nitwits\u2019,\u2019 it\u2019s okay to use those words. ‘Liar\u2019 or ‘sexual misconduct,” you cannot say those words. ‘Under Section 370 of the House Rules and Manual, it has been held that a member could: <\/p>\n

&bull; refer to the government as ‘something hated, something oppressive.\u2019 <\/line>&bull; refer to the president as ‘using legislative or judicial pork.\u2019 <\/line>&bull; refer to a presidential message as a ‘disgrace to the country.\u2019 <\/line>&bull; refer to unnamed officials as ‘our half-baked nitwits handling foreign affairs.\u2019 <\/line><\/p>\n

‘Likewise, it has been held that a member could not: <\/p>\n

&bull; call the president a ‘liar.\u2019 <\/line>&bull; call the president a ‘hypocrite.\u2019 <\/line>&bull; describe the president\u2019s veto of a bill as ‘cowardly.\u2019 <\/line>&bull; charge that the president has been ‘intellectually dishonest.\u2019 <\/line>&bull; refer to the president as ‘giving aid and comfort to the enemy.\u2019 <\/line>&bull; refer to alleged ‘sexual misconduct on the president\u2019s part.”\u2019So the House of Representatives and their rules committee has now put out a list of things that can and cannot be said on the floor of the House of Representatives in what was the greatest representative republic in the history of the world. <\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: So the House of Representatives has formally banned truth-telling in its chamber, which makes sense, folks. At least the Democrats that run the joint are being honest in a dishonest way. Liars lie about everything they do, so they have banned free speech when it happens to be accurate speech. Look at how they name their bills. Every bill they pass has a name that misrepresents what\u2019s in the damn thing. For example: ‘the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009.\u2019 That\u2019s the stimulus bill, otherwise known as the Porkulus bill. It drove up unemployment and bankrupted the country, and it\u2019s called ‘the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009.\u2019 ‘The America\u2019s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009\u2019 is actually a bill to destroy private sector medical care and insurance and seize control of one-sixth of our economy. ‘The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009\u2019 is a tax on energy. It\u2019s a cap-and-tax bill that will crush the US economy. <\/p>\n

So it makes total sense that the Democrats that run the House of Representatives would now ban free speech when it happens to be accurate speech. Now, my question, and I ask it seriously: Can we really have an African-American president in this country when the constitutional body, the press rolls over and plays dead and becomes propagandists and stenographers? Can we really have an African-American president? If anybody objects to this rational question, which is based entirely upon facts about the media as they currently exist, then they are cowards when it comes to a discussion of race. Remember, our esteemed attorney general, Eric Holder — who\u2019s doing everything he can to make peace with our enemies and prosecute those who keep us free — said that we need to have a conversation about race in America because America has a lot of racial cowards. <\/p>\n

Remember Holder saying this? We have a lot of cowards afraid to discuss race. I think the racial cowards are in the White House and all throughout media headquarters in Washington and New York. They run around tossing out this accusation of racism instead of having an honest examination of what is really happening. I mean, this ACORN meltdown is an amazing thing to watch. And, see, the Drive-Bys are now saying, ‘Well, you know, we don\u2019t cover noise,\u2019 is what somebody in ABC said. Chuck Todd said Van Jones, ‘Well, we don\u2019t have time to cover somebody number 600 on the power list in the White House.\u2019 Number 600 on the power list? He\u2019s handpicked by Valerie Jarrett! Look, it\u2019s no longer about bias. It\u2019s about incompetence, it\u2019s about political correctness, it\u2019s been boosterism. They have chosen sides. <\/p>\n

Ever since their monopoly\u2019s been busted up, they haven\u2019t been the same. How about all these attacks on Michael Steele? Michael Steele is black. He\u2019s the chairman of the Republican National Committee. They rip this guy to shreds! They call him stupid, dumb, whatever, all over the place. Has Michael Steele ever run around saying, ‘You stop talking about me that way, that\u2019s racism!\u2019 He\u2019s never said it. These people are a bunch of cowards, folks. They are a bunch of literal cowards. From the White House on down, from Obama to Axelrod, to Gibbs, and everybody below them in the media, they are a bunch of cowards on matters of race. Now, I\u2019m going to tell you, this racial BS is nothing other than an admission of defeat on the substance of the health care takeover in the process. <\/p>\n

That is all this is. They cannot win on substance, and so if they cannot win on substance that means they have to turn to scorched earth politics and policies and that includes calling half the country Nazis, half of the country an angry, unruly mob — and now over half the country are racists simply because they criticize Obama. And all this is — and this is what you have to know. It\u2019s especially established now they bring Jimmy Carter out. There is no Democrat more highly associated, more profoundly associated with utter failure than Jimmy Carter — and remember, failure is a resume enhancement in the Democrat Party. When they trot out Jimmy Carter and they start getting him to go along with all this mindless racial accusation stuff, it is a tantamount admission of defeat on the substance of the health care takeover that is taking place. <\/p>\n

Obama is going on five Sunday shows (every one but Fox) and Letterman is a tantamount admission of defeat for his health care bill. It\u2019s going down in flames. Now, they\u2019re going to get something that\u2019s called health care but the bill he wanted, this House bill, it\u2019s going down in flames. Nobody wants any part of it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, one of the things I love to say, I was at a marketing meeting when I worked for the Kansas City Royals back in, I guess this would have been 1981, we had our off season marketing meetings, all the marketing directors of various teams met out in Scottsdale, and for some reason the league, Major League Baseball, brought in a Harvard sociologist to tell us how the people of America interact with sports so that it might help us sell more tickets. The guy said something that has stuck with me forever, \u2019cause he nailed it. I\u2019m going to give you his exact quote. There were no women in the room. At the time there weren\u2019t any female marketing directors there. The guy said, ‘The great thing about sports is that you can invest total passion without consequence. Try that with a woman.\u2019 Now, what he meant was after your first big heartbreak, you always dial it back. You\u2019re always guarded; you don\u2019t want to get hurt again; you just try to hold a little of yourself back. It\u2019s a protective thing. But with your sports team, you don\u2019t care, because they can\u2019t hurt you, all they can do is lose. <\/p>\n

They won\u2019t break your heart; they won\u2019t tell you you\u2019re worthless; they won\u2019t sue you for half of what you have and then leave. They won\u2019t do any of that. So you can invest total passion in sports without consequence. Now, I think the oldest sport in America has been politics, talking, arguing, fighting, cheering, you know, going to war on the fields of political debate within the arena of ideas. It\u2019s the oldest and the most ingrained sport of Americans. But unlike other sports, this is not a sport we can enjoy without consequences. There are dreadful, sometimes important consequences to taking a stand in the arena of ideas on matters of politics. But to try to shut this down, to try to shut down this time-honored tradition that defines America\u2019s greatness with stupid laws and rules about what can and can\u2019t be said on the floor of the House of Representatives is dangerous. To try to shut down the time-honored traditions of talking, arguing, fighting, cheering, going to war on the fields of political debate, by accusing half the country of being racist is dangerous. It\u2019s also indicative that the accusers know they\u2019re losing. <\/p>\n

Those guidelines that I read, what can and can\u2019t be said on the floor of the House, is due in part to all the chicks in government. A lot of what\u2019s happening in the State-Controlled Media is due to the chickification of the news. That list I read to you of what can and can\u2019t be said on the floor of the House of Representatives sounds like a list a mother makes and puts on the refrigerator to teach kids how to say things and not say things they shouldn\u2019t and should say. They may as well have attached that list with a magnet to the House refrigerator, and we have a chick running the place. Women are messing up our sport. Ah, Dawn, don\u2019t shake your head in there. (interruption) You don\u2019t say everything on your mind. You might say everything on your mind but nobody else can. Nancy Pelosi can say whatever\u2019s on her mind, but let Joe Wilson try it and all hell breaks loose. It is true. It is true. This is not anti-woman. I\u2019m giving you an analysis here. I know it\u2019s not gonna change. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m just trying to explain to you why some of this stuff is happening. That list is banal. That last is an embarrassment to the United States of America. <\/p>\n

This country is becoming a shadow of its former self. Can you believe the pettiness of things you can and can\u2019t say on the House floor? Meanwhile, all of that and worse is uttered constantly by the Democrats and their stupid, insane fringe base multiple times a day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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