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RUSH: I about fell out of my chair today after Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court. I\u2019m looking up there at MessNBC and they\u2019ve got this graphic up there that says she could move the court to the right. I\u2019m saying, ‘Boy, the White House knows who they picked here because if it\u2019s on MSNBC, it\u2019s a White House talking point.\u2019 All strategic. CNN, Roland Martin, black guy, has a piece. He doesn\u2019t like her, she\u2019s not left enough. When she was a Harvard Law dean she filled 28 out of 29 openings there with white guys. <\/p>\n

Greetings, folks, great to have you on the EIB Network. El Rushbo here and a full week of broadcast excellence. The telephone number is 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

Look, Obama has chosen himself in a different gender, sexual gender. Identical. No paper trail, don\u2019t know anything about her, all we got is platitudes. The New York Times has a story printed out to five pages long that is a mirror image of the kind of story they would do on Obama during the precampaign and the campaign. We don\u2019t know anything about her. Ed Meese has a great point today, and I\u2019m going to get into this in greater detail but this is not actually going to be the lead item here today, but Ed Meese says, you know, the fact that she doesn\u2019t have a paper trail, if our guys in the Senate are up to it, this is a great opportunity to find out about this woman\u2019s mind. That\u2019s what we need to find out, what is in her mind. Due to exhaustive research that I personally conducted today I think I could give you a pretty good idea of what is in her mind. She is a pure academic elitist radical. She comes from the faculty lounge. She is a utopian theoretician. ‘The despised and disadvantaged.\u2019 Ed Meese found that in one of her writings. The court exists to serve the despised and disadvantaged. I\u2019ve traced it back to Thurgood Marshall. Oh, yeah. By the time we finish today, folks, you\u2019re going to know more about this woman than Obama knows about her, and they were colleagues at the University of Chicago Law School. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Look, it\u2019s no surprise they\u2019re going to nominate leftist radicals to replace a leftist radical. There\u2019s no surprise there. You don\u2019t really need to go too deep in analyzing the babe. But it is interesting, there\u2019s a law professor out there from some university that says this woman\u2019s worse than Harriet Miers. This woman Kagan is worse than Harriet Miers, intellectually she\u2019s a lightweight, this law professor says. So they\u2019re trying to paint the picture here that the left is not all that ecstatic with her and that she might move the court to the right. But when you look at who\u2019s reporting this, they\u2019re all part of the Obama media network: MSNBC, Politico, you name it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: If Elena Kagan — and I don\u2019t think this way, I just don\u2019t think this way — but everybody on the left thinks in terms of identity politics, so I thought I would try my hand at it. So if Elena Kagan is confirmed to the Supreme Court, there will be no white male Protestants on the court. Now, is that a court that will ‘look like the United States,\u2019 which is what Obama says we want here? But this woman, Kagan, she supposedly is there to make sure the court deals with ‘the despised and the downtrodden,\u2019 with the despised and the poor and so forth. She doesn\u2019t know anything about it. She\u2019s lived at Harvard, in Hyde Park in Chicago, inside the Beltway, and the Upper West Side of Manhattan. As is the case with all liberal elitist theoreticians, they have no clue how real Americans live. They think they know how Americans ought to live, and that is what they want to use the judiciary for. They\u2019re totally animated by their prejudices and their biases.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The New York Times today: ‘Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, writing on The Daily Beast, compared [Elena Kagan] to Harriet E. Miers, whose nomination by President George W. Bush collapsed amid an uprising among conservatives who considered her unqualified and not demonstrably committed to their judicial philosophy.\u2019 The headline of the piece is ‘The Next Harriet Miers,\u2019 but she\u2019s not the next Harriet Miers. She\u2019s the next Barack Obama. This is what everybody\u2019s gotta realize: He\u2019s simply picking mirror images of himself, and I\u2019m going to get to it in time, this New York Times story, which is a puff piece profile. It is striking how similar these two people are, at least in the way they were reported on by the regime\u2019s State-Controlled Media. She\u2019s more qualified than Obama, but that\u2019s about it. He still is the most unqualified guy in whatever room he walks into, and she\u2019s just a notch above. <\/p>\n

She\u2019s supposed to be a ‘consensus builder,\u2019 open-minded, post-partisan, just like Obama was supposed to be. I mean, those are the words in the New York Times piece: Consensus builder, open-minded, postpartisan — and, of course, we know that none of that that we were told about Obama is true, and it\u2019s probably not true of Elena Kagan. The liberals will never object seriously to her not being qualified. It doesn\u2019t matter. The only qualification is that you be liberal and that you believe that the Supreme Court is positive rewrite the Constitution. If you believe the Constitution is outdated and no longer serves a purpose, like Thurgood Marshall thought (and she was an acolyte of Thurgood Marshall) then that\u2019s all the qualification you need. She hasn\u2019t been a judge. She was in the private sector or private. No, Obama praised her today for not being a corporate lawyer. Instead, she went into ‘service.\u2019 I think she even plays basketball. I think she even plays basketball. Rumor is that she smokes. I\u2019m telling you: She\u2019s a mirror image of Obama. They were both at the University of Chicago Law School, but she was a genuine professor. He was not. He was just a lecturer teaching Alinsky tactics so how to separate corporations from their money. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Look, folks, it\u2019s this simple with Elena Kagan. If the regime really thought she was open-minded — if they really thought that she was sympathetic to conservatives and their point of view, if they really thought she might move the court to the right — given her lack of legal writing, they would never allow her to be nominated, much less confirmed. So all of this about consensus builder, might move the court to the right, sympathetic to conservatives, it\u2019s all a crock. If they had the slightest doubt about this woman\u2019s far-left credentials she wouldn\u2019t have been nominated. They don\u2019t care that she has no writings. They don\u2019t care that she has no qualifications. They don\u2019t care that she is not experienced in enough ways. They don\u2019t care. All they care about is that she\u2019s Obama. Mirror image. She\u2019s an Obamatron: A mirror image of Obama and his politics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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