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RUSH: Los Angeles Times: ‘Chicago\u2019s Swift Elimination at 2016 Olympics Host is Political Blow to Obama.\u2019 F. Chuck Todd must not have written that story. From Fox News: ‘Obamas Fail in Personal Pitch.\u2019 The Daily Mail UK: ‘Humiliation for Obama as Chicago is Eliminated in First Round of Voting.\u2019 I wonder what David Brooks thinks. Obama is Brooks\u2019 guy. For the UK Times Online: ‘Obama\u2019s Olympic Failure Will Only Add to Doubts About his Presidency.\u2019 What? Look at the word here, in the Fox News headline: ‘Obama Fails;\u2019 and ‘Humiliation for Obama\u2019 and the word ‘failure\u2019 here at the UK Times Online. For those of you on the other side of the aisle listening in who were upset that I sound gleeful, I am. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t deny it. I\u2019m happy. Anything that gets in the way of Barack Obama accomplishing his domestic agenda is fine with me. I stand by it. You know, I don\u2019t want Obamacare to succeed. I want national health care, socialized medicine to fail. I want cap and trade, a national carbon tax emissions policy based on a hoax to fail. I do not want the government owning car companies. I don\u2019t want the government running banks. I don\u2019t want the government in charge of loans, I don\u2019t want any of it. I want all of that to fail. And for those things to fail, I\u2019m sure to say, our president must fail, because they\u2019re his ideas. It is the ideas I want to fail, but the architect of those ideas must (by the same sense of logic) also fail at the same time as the ideas do. So anything that weakens and helps people to see the real Obama, it\u2019s a step forward. Gotta say it. Not gonna sit here and be silent. You know me, I\u2019m not politically correct. The Reverend Jackson is dismayed. He was on the Fox Business Network. ‘What\u2019s your reaction to this, Reverend Jackson?\u2019<\/p>\n

JACKSON: I would like to know what happened, \u2019cause there\u2019s always underlying politics in these decisions, but I\u2019m shocked and saddened, and I really anticipated we would win. We sent our A-team, president, first lady, made such a great presentation; the mayor, the governor, Oprah Winfrey, our Olympic — Olympians.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They ‘sent the A-team.\u2019 See, this is their problem. The A-team is 0-for-3! The president and first lady did not make a great presentation. It was all about them, Reverend Jackson, and aside from the media in this country and some cult-like followers in this country the people don\u2019t care about them. They don\u2019t have this personal cult-like investment in the Obamas. People aren\u2019t going to award an Olympic city just because a couple of Obamas show up and ask for it based on sad, gut-wrenching personal stories. Then the reporter said to the Reverend Jackson, ‘There was about a 50-50 split in terms of people\u2019s support for the city one of the lowest. Do you think that had a role? I mean, clearly members of the African-American community in Chicago were concerned about it, their neighborhoods potentially being exploited.\u2019<\/p>\n

JACKSON: It\u2019s not just African-American! That\u2019s not fair! I mean, this is all of Chicago involved. There is concern about displacement, about costs which came from all sides of town, the taxing burden. But also the opportunity to come with that. I\u2019m concerned, of course, that we were committing ourselves to provide security for the hosts\u2019 children who right now are in jeopardy. But that should not have been the main factor, the deal breaker in getting the Olympics in Chicago. I — I just don\u2019t understand it yet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t understand it. So there\u2019s going to be an investigation. (interruption) Well, I didn\u2019t understand half of what had he said, either, but I have the transcript you want me to read what he said? ‘It\u2019s not just African-American! That\u2019s not fair! I mean, this is all of Chicago involved. If there is concern about displacement,\u2019 meaning Valerie Jarrett\u2019s slums would be torn down and people kicked out. ‘There is concern about displacement, about costs which came from all sides of town, the taxing burden. But also the opportunity to come with that,\u2019 the opportunities that come from the tax burden; and ‘we were committing ourselves to provide security for the hosts\u2019 children who right now…\u2019 Oh, is that what this was about, homes for children? That\u2019s what the Olympic bid was about? Anyway, ‘that should not have been the main factor, the deal breaker in getting the Olympics in Chicago. I — I just don\u2019t understand it yet.\u2019 <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to go back, I want to play — because I just enjoy it so much — I want to play the sound bite from the Reverend Jackson earlier today when asked on the Fox Business Network for his reaction to the embarrassing, humiliating failure and defeat of the Obamas and Oprah in Copenhagen. <\/p>\n

(replaying of sound bite) <\/p>\n

Let me assist here. Reverend Jackson, what happened was that a bunch of white Europeans voted against Obama, plain and simple. That\u2019s what happened, Jesse. How soon before we see the new Obama bumper sticker: ‘No, We Can\u2019t\u2019? And think about this, folks. It is quite possible that Chicago may have gotten the Olympics if Obama hadn\u2019t politicized the process; if he hadn\u2019t gone over there in the first place; if he hadn\u2019t sent his wife over there in the first place; if they hadn\u2019t politicized it and had the media come over there and tell the world, ‘Oh, what rock stars, oh, these people have come and taken over. They are just the most popular people here.\u2019 You know, human beings are human beings, they have jealousies. This is the IOC\u2019s show, it wasn\u2019t The Obama Show. They came over there, they tried to hijack the whole thing and the IOC bitch slapped them. It\u2019s no more complicated than that. How about sop journalists looking into that angle of the story? Jesse Jackson wants to know what happened? Well, find out what really happened. Don\u2019t just sit there and impugn the vote. Find out what really happened. Could be that the International Olympic Committee members simply didn\u2019t like the arrogance of what the Obamas were doing. And maybe they don\u2019t give two squats about Oprah Winfrey, who is now eating her way through the fjords after consuming Norway. <\/p>\n

Here is Ken in Detroit as we go to the phones. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, Rush, I wanted to say that I am extremely happy that the International Olympic Committee did reject Chicago for the Olympic games. My reasoning behind it is that it shows me that the rest of the world, they have the intellect, the intelligence necessary to see through and reject the phony and the undeserving rock star, superstar, messiah image of Barack Obama that\u2019s being promoted in this country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It could be that. It could also be that the IOC hates America.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think so, Rush, because —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It could also be that Europeans hate America. Look, just because George Bush is gone does not mean all this so-called animus against the country, the United States is gone. I think you\u2019re right to a point. I do think that the IOC, as I just said, they\u2019re human beings. Here comes this entourage over there, they\u2019re taking over, and they got their media in tow, and there are stories all over the US media, the worldwide media, ‘Oh, the rock stars are here, oh, they\u2019re taking over, oh, everybody loves them, oh, this or that, oh, my God, we can\u2019t get enough of them, can I get a picture with you, please?\u2019 I think it does illustrate that the image of Obama concocted by our fraudulent, corrupt media is a total myth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Rush —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s even a myth in this country.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Rush, I don\u2019t think it really is a problem with the world not liking America and I say that because I know a lot of people who travel around the world and for the most part they actually do like us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, I know, but I\u2019m talking about these European socialist leader types.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you gotta look at countries like Germany, they\u2019ve been voting in candidates who are pro-capitalist. They\u2019ve been rejecting the old socialist way and they\u2019ve found it does not work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Labor Party is on its last skids in Great Britain, too. What is in store for us has happened to them, and they\u2019re ready to throw the bums out in Great Britain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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