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RUSH: Let\u2019s go back to the audio sound bites. The same March 4th, 2007, at a breakfast before his big speech, this the same place where Hillary said, ‘I ain\u2019t no ways tired,\u2019 when she was affecting a black dialect before a black audience. This is democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: This is the site of my conception. I am the fruits of your labor. I am the offspring of the movement. So when people ask me whether I\u2019ve been to Selma before, I tell \u2019em I\u2019m coming home.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When people ask me whether I\u2019ve been to Selma befo\u2019, I tell \u2019em I\u2019m coming home. He continued.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: My grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya, grew up in a small village, and all his life that\u2019s all he was, was a cook and a houseboy and that\u2019s what they called him even when he was 60 years old, they called him a houseboy. Wouldn\u2019t call him by his last name. Sound familiar? So don\u2019t tell me I don\u2019t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don\u2019t tell me I\u2019m not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama. I\u2019m here because somebody marched for our freedom. I\u2019m here because ya\u2019ll sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And he has been to Selma befo\u2019, and he said so. In honor of Harry Reid, we don\u2019t do dedications on this program much, but we\u2019re going to do one now. This following tune is dedicated to the Senate majority leader, Dingy Harry Reid. <\/p>\n

(playing of ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro”) <\/line><\/a>White comedian Paul Shanklin and the ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro” as portrayed vocally by the Reverend Al Sharpton as dedicated to the Senate majority leader Dingy Harry Reid. I want to go back, March of 2008 and share with you again a monologue I did on this program on March the 14th, and this was the opening monologue, and I think this probably had a role in Obama\u2019s famous and earth-moving race speech which was four or five days later. The reason I want to go back and repeat this is that it ties right into Harry Reid\u2019s no-Negro-dialect comment. Now, the headline, as we headlined it at RushLimbaugh.com: ‘Barack Obama and Pastor Wright: Far More Than Guilt by Association. — This pastor was the central force in this church, and that\u2019s why Obama chose it. It\u2019s why the pastor married them. It\u2019s why he baptized their kids. There is a story on the American Thinker blog today by C. Edmund Wright, who is not related to Pastor Wright, by the way. His theory is simply that the choice of this church by Obama was calculated so that Obama could establish his black street cred with certain elements of the American population,\u2019 because Obama was too clean and articulate, he was too white to win in Chicago \u2019til Jeremiah Wright gave him black street cred. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, Harry Reid likes that he doesn\u2019t have a Negro dialect, but the voters in Chicago did not like that 20 years ago. ‘In other words, he embraced Jeremiah Wright and the church\u2019s agenda to ‘get his black street cred to escape his ‘white half.” Now, he\u2019s trying to divert attention away from his black street cred. And a little sober reminder here… he is doing this so he can occupy the Oval Office.\u2019 This is exactly what Harry Reid said. This is exactly what he meant. Now, these are the words of C. Edmund Wright, American Thinker. ‘We are talking about the leading candidate for the Democrat nomination for president of the United States. Now, this is Mr. C. Edmund Wright\u2019s theory, that Obama did this to establish street cred. This was 20 years ago, and did this to mitigate his white half. They chose this church because of the charismatic pastor\u2019s beliefs. … It would be reasonable to conclude that this pastor is one of the reasons that Michelle ‘My Belle\u2019 Obama harbors the views that she does. She\u2019s an angry woman running around out there. The pastor doesn\u2019t just pop off here and there, folks, like the nutty uncle in the attic that Obama is trying to portray him as. This was his usual way of talking. We have a little bit more from him today. We have some extended segments when we come back from the commercial break.\u2019<\/p>\n

The point is this is Obama from March 18th of 2008. The point is that C. Edmund Wright\u2019s theory about why Obama chose Wright and Wright\u2019s church is the exact same thing that Harry Reid said, which I really think if people stopped to think about this and consider it even further, that what Harry Reid said is really devastatingly racist, because if he\u2019s saying, which he is, that only light-skinned blacks who don\u2019t sound black can be elected, that\u2019s more than just awkward, as the NAALCP says, that\u2019s much more — (interruption) they\u2019re laughing in there, but that\u2019s how to translate what Harry Reid said. He\u2019s light-skinned and doesn\u2019t sound black. That\u2019s why I said I want to know what a black dialect is to Harry Reid, I want him to tell me who has one. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re going to start in Omaha with Sarah. Nice to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. Good day to you, Rush. I\u2019m glad you\u2019re feeling great.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You sound great. Hey, with regard to the Reid comments: He is racist. It is a racist comment. But, you know, surely Americans… You know, Americans are intelligent people. They know that these people, whether it be Obama, whether it be Pelosi, whether it be Harry Reid, whether it be Hillary, that they all are going to be exactly what they need to to get into office and to get whatever they want. I mean, if you look in the Webster dictionary, ‘Dialect: A variety of language confine to a certain region.\u2019 Well, when they go and try and get their votes in one region they\u2019re going to sound like that region and then they\u2019re going to go to another. But most importantly, Rush, in my opinion this is just another Rahm Emanuel crisis idea for the second full week in 2010. I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s going to come up for the next week or the next week or the next week.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. You\u2019re saying that the release of the book is a Rahm Emanuel idea to distract everybody from health care?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that the timing is. I think the timing is, and this being pulled out is a diversion because it\u2019s going to lead us into immigration reform, which is their next big catch that they want.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me tell you something. It has not diverted me. It has not distracted me. I have interwoven health care news, unemployment news, stimulus failure news with all of this stuff today. Now, these books. Books have publication dates that are set way, way in advance. We give these guys credit for being manipulative conspirators and so forth (and they clearly are) but that\u2019s not the real story here. I don\u2019t think this is something that\u2019s being used to divert everybody. I think the real story here, folks (aside from the content of Bill Clinton saying what he said and Harry Reid saying what he said) is that a bunch of liberal journalists knew this all during the campaign and they sat on it. These are reporters. These are journalists from TIME Magazine, ABC. Halperin\u2019s worked at a number of places. They had all of this. This happens every year. All these journalists write books to catalog campaigns. <\/p>\n

Now, in the case of the stuff in this book about Sarah Palin, they didn\u2019t sit on that. There\u2019s nothing new in the book about Sarah Palin. But we didn\u2019t know Harry Reid said all this, and Harry Reid said, ‘I thought it was a private conversation off the record.\u2019 Well, that doesn\u2019t matter. He still said it and these guys knew it, and Bill Clinton, too. They sat on this during the campaign. Can you imagine if they had reported this at the time? Well, they saved it, obviously, for their book, which means what? They were seeking financial reward. They held this information for a multiple number of reasons. They knew the book would sell big because it has dynamite stuff. I think one of the authors of the book is saying, ‘I had no idea that this Harry Reid comment would be such a big deal.\u2019 You didn\u2019t? You didn\u2019t think that a comment like that by Harry Reid would be such a big deal and the Clinton comment and all the other things? I\u2019ll tell you the stuff in this…<\/p>\n

We haven\u2019t touch on it yet. The stuff in this book on John and Elizabeth Edwards is just devastating, and I don\u2019t doubt a word of it. I mean, they are two people the exact opposite of the image that was projected and portrayed of them and by them and for them. They\u2019re not the compassionate, soft-spoken couple. You know, Elizabeth Edwards, they had a PAC, a political action committee, and some of the underlings had screwed up and had not succeeded in purchasing Elizabeth and John\u2019s health insurance from the PAC. And she flipped out when she heard that. She said (paraphrased), ‘If this is not done tomorrow, everybody\u2019s health insurance in this PAC is getting canceled. I\u2019m going to cancel it! If you won\u2019t take care of John and me, we\u2019re getting rid of everybody. We\u2019re canceling everybody\u2019s health insurance.\u2019 <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a true of most Democrats. These aren\u2019t the sweet, compassionate, caring and so on. These are vicious, mean people in many, many ways. Ideologically, personally, they are arrogant, condescending. They hold average people in contempt or look at them with contempt. So the big story here is all the stuff that these people sit on. There was another thing. In the 2004 election, I forget who did the book but there was a book about the Kerry campaign and it had similar things in it that had it come out during the campaign, had they come out during the campaign it might have changed the way things went, even though Bush ended up winning. The real indictment here is that journalists on the prowl, on the campaign trail here all of this things and hold them, and they hold back on it. Except the Palin and McCain stuff. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything new in this book about Palin that I haven\u2019t heard before — the stuff that\u2019s true, the stuff that isn\u2019t true — and there\u2019s a lot in this book about Palin that isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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