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RUSH: Jennifer Rubin at Commentary magazine: ‘How bad is the Ground Zero mosque story for the White House? Bad enough that Obama advisers are pointing fingers at the president and trying to absolve themselves of the fiasco. Politico reports: Prior to the decision, [Rahm] Emanuel and Obama\u2019s communications staff vividly — and presciently — predicted that Obama would be handing Republicans a weapon to batter Democrats as weak-kneed on terrorism three months before the midterms, according to several people familiar with the situation. In other words, not our fault! Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod, the president\u2019s most devoted cheerleaders for the most extreme liberal positions, were all for it, you see. But not Emanuel and the communications team because they are smart enough — they remind us — to tell Obama what a harebrained idea this was. But it wouldn\u2019t look good, especially for Emanuel, who had his own bout of ‘not my fault\u2019 media coverage early in the year, to look so blatantly disloyal. So he throws in an e-mail: ‘Give me a break,\u2019 Emanuel e-mailed POLITICO when asked about a press report that he had opposed the move. ‘We all stand behind and support the president\u2019s decision.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘But on background, you guys should know: ‘not my fault!\u2019 What is clear is that Axelrod and Jarrett, arguably the most powerful of Obama\u2019s team, also possess the worst instincts: No one supported Obama more forcefully than Jarrett, Obama\u2019s close friend and the administration\u2019s liaison to the civil rights community, who told people she thought the mosque issue was a matter of core Democratic principle, according to several sources familiar with her actions. And Axelrod, a canny tactician with a keen sensitivity to political danger, didn\u2019t dissuade his boss from jumping in, citing his own parents\u2019 experiences with religious persecution as Jews in Europe. <\/p>\n

‘Well,\u2019 Jennifer Rubin says, ‘I guess his sensitivity to political danger was on the fritz. And his disgusting invocation of the Nazi analogy — make no mistake, the American people get the role of the Nazis in this one, and the Muslims are awarded the status of potential Holocaust victims — suggests his undiluted leftism has rendered him…\u2019 Anyway, the bottom line is that they\u2019re divided at the White House over this. So I take you back to the audio sound bite we played of Mark Halperin who, with Scarborough today, was worrying on the air, (paraphrasing) ‘Why did he just leave this incomplete and unclosed as he goes on vacation? Why did he leave the wound of the mosque at Ground Zero wide open?\u2019 Maybe because he wants to. Does anybody ever stop to think that this man does what he intends to do? That he has intended to inflict damage on the American private sector? Look, somebody who advocates trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan and giving him a two-year forum to bash America, it\u2019s not a big stretch to see the same guy not having a problem with a mosque at Ground Zero. <\/p>\n

These people are in denial. They\u2019ve got this image of Obama that they constructed as brilliant, smarter than everybody else in the room, and then when it doesn\u2019t fit, they can\u2019t double back and say, ‘Boy, what a stupid tone deaf guy.\u2019 They have to blame us, ‘Rush Limbaugh, calling him Imam Obama, that\u2019s why people are starting to wonder whether he\u2019s a Muslim.\u2019 No. It\u2019s because he said that he\u2019s a Christian and people don\u2019t believe him. (interruption) What is it, Snerdley? All right. You\u2019re asking the same question that Mark Halperin asked: ‘How could Obama not know?\u2019 My point is he does know, he did know. I don\u2019t know that he wants to blow up the Democrat Party. I think he\u2019s willing to blow up the Democrat Party in order to get done the other things he wants to do. I mean, when\u2019s the last time he was concerned about a Democrat winning reelection anyway other than himself? I mean he\u2019s been blowing up the Democrat Party chances ever since he started insisting on the Porkulus, every legislative agenda item. If Obama cared about his party he woulda stopped them from doing everything they\u2019ve done. But he\u2019s been in there pushing \u2019em from behind and putting their name on it. <\/p>\n

Remember the White House is out there saying it\u2019s not Obamacare. The bill originated in Congress. We have somebody here who was raised and educated to believe the worst things about this country. And he thinks this country has a lesson or two to learn, that we\u2019ve been imperialists, aggressors, oppression, we\u2019ve spread it all over the world. Look at what his pastor said of 9\/11, ‘America\u2019s chickens have come home to roost.\u2019 His pastor. Look, we\u2019re not stupid. We do not believe a man who tells us he doesn\u2019t hear what his preacher says for 20 years. For 20 years we don\u2019t believe somebody doesn\u2019t hear the preacher. Sorry. Too big a stretch. President Obama, Senator Obama, what about when Wright said… ‘I never heard that when I attended services.\u2019 Well, you heard it now. ‘Well, those are videotapes.\u2019 No, they\u2019re released by the church. ‘Oh, well, no, I really haven\u2019t heard that.\u2019 We don\u2019t believe this. Most normal people, when they choose a church, want to hear that what pastor says and they remember it. This guy chooses a church and then tells us he doesn\u2019t remember anything the guy said or he didn\u2019t hear any of that? Sorry. We don\u2019t believe it. So when the pastor of Obama\u2019s church, the man who Obama says mentored him to Christianity, said of the 9\/11 attacks, (paraphrasing) ‘America\u2019s chickens have come home to roost — this is what happens when you murder and kill around the world.\u2019 Well, if that\u2019s who mentored you, if that\u2019s your pastor, forgive us, we think you heard him say it. <\/p>\n

So it\u2019s not, therefore, a stretch to believe that Obama might think America has a couple lessons to learn. Has he not apologized every chance he\u2019s had when on foreign soil for this country? Has he not? He must think the country\u2019s guilty. He\u2019s out there apologizing. Is it a big stretch to believe that he would support the building of a mosque at Ground Zero because we need to be taught a lesson? It has nothing to do with whether he\u2019s a Muslim or not. Given the way he\u2019s raised and educated, look, it\u2019s clear this man does not believe the concept of American exceptionalism and if you don\u2019t believe that, you don\u2019t believe in America. It\u2019s just that simple. You believe in something else, and you may want America to be something else other than America. Do you hear him talk about the greatness of the country? Do you hear him trying to inspire people to continue the greatness of the country? You don\u2019t hear that. You hear them talk about an America in decline. You go to the G20, the G8, the G-Whiz convention and they say the days of Americans leading the world economy are over. Well, sorry. We hear that, and it has a specific meaning. <\/p>\n

When his attorney general is hell-bent on bringing the mastermind of the 9\/11 attacks, who wants to be executed, to New York City for a trial which would be near Ground Zero, we all know what this mastermind\u2019s going to do, he\u2019s gonna rip America to shreds, gonna end up blaming America for it, might find some jurors in New York who agree, it\u2019s not a stretch to believe that he didn\u2019t mean it when he said he supported the mosque at Ground Zero. But he did mean it. What\u2019s hard for me to believe is the way the left wants us to believe, that he doesn\u2019t mean what he says. Not just in this instance but a whole lot of other things. He\u2019s got a communications problem. How can he be the best communicator ever and have all these problems? How can he be the best communicator in the world and have a prompter everywhere he goes? And if it\u2019s on the prompter it was meant to be said. And it was on the prompter at the Iftar dinner, so it was intended. If you videotape a TV show and you review it before it airs you intend for what\u2019s seen to be seen. Otherwise you\u2019d edit it out. You put it on the prompter, make it clear you think they have a right to build this mosque near Ground Zero, the hallmark of American openness for it to happen. You mean for it to be said. So after meaning it, then these guys like Halperin come along and say, ‘I can\u2019t believe he went on vacation and didn\u2019t fix this mess.\u2019 It\u2019s a mess he made on purpose, and now he\u2019s on the links, Our Lady of the Fairways, and you people are blaming me for all of it, which is exactly what he wanted to happen.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Steve in the Cape…? Which ‘cape\u2019? Cape Girardeau? It could have been Cape Cod. We talked about Cape Cod. Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Steve. That\u2019s my hometown. How are you, sir?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. Greetings from the ‘City of Roses.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: First-time caller.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I was six years behind you in school, but I used to listen to you on KGMO.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Is that right? (laughing) Wow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was the one that called every day and said, ‘Man, play In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, will ya?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) I\u2019ll search my memory archives. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Iron Butterfly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I remember. A lot of people thought it was ‘In the Garden of Eden.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I want to tell you: You have a brilliant mind, and I\u2019m so grateful you are on our side.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, one quick comment before I ask my question. I can tell you that as a pastor of a fairly large church that I am held accountable for literally every word that comes across the pulpit, and I have been scrutinized for one offhanded remark for weeks, and it is not reasonable to think that the president did not know what was being preached by Jeremiah Wright. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Only unreasonable people and people that are willfully blind would accept that argument.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. For 20 years he didn\u2019t hear any of that stuff.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s just not credible.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It wasn\u2019t the Jeremiah Wright that he knew. Sorry, it\u2019s not believable. Exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My question is, I really view these upcoming elections in November as probably the most important at least in my adult lifetime. I feel like it\u2019s our last chance to turn back the tide of socialism. My question to you is do you think — number one, do you think — we can take back the Senate; and number two, which races do you feel the mosque issue might play a key role in?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think… Yes, I think we can take the Senate. I actually think — and I will go out on a limb because in the big scheme, it\u2019s early. In politics, anything can happen at any time. And it\u2019s just, what, the middle of August, just past the middle of August. But on the House side, I think it\u2019s going to be a bigger blowout than any of the inside-the-Beltway experts think. I think it\u2019s going to be bigger than \u201994. I think the morning after people who are already expecting this to be a big blowout are going to be shocked. I mean on the Democrat side. They\u2019re already trying to condition the fall here by saying, ‘Well, \u201994 was a surprise. We know it\u2019s coming this year.\u2019 That isn\u2019t going to stop anything. It\u2019s going to be bigger than they think. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re going to be shocked. They really believed, in 2006 and 2008, that those elections meant that we had become a leftist — not a center left, but a leftist — socialist country. They really thought that\u2019s what that meant. And then they create this perfect character of Obama. They create a resume that\u2019s perfect, that doesn\u2019t require any proof. ‘Smartest guy in the world!\u2019 We never saw the grades. ‘Law Review!\u2019 We never saw anything he wrote. I mean, they create created a character; a perfect, perfect figure in every way. ‘He\u2019s smarter than everybody else! He\u2019s brighter, better spoken. Better resume. Unique! Unlike anything we\u2019d ever seen,\u2019 and they got 53 or 54% of people to buy it, which is really not a big number, considering all of the advantages they had, all the bias, all the unified approaches in the media.<\/p>\n

But they still thought that this meant one of two things: Either they had cowed the country into believing leftism-socialism was the best for them, or that the country had actually become that. Now they\u2019re learning and they\u2019re shocked and angry and mad that that\u2019s not the reality — and they lash out, as only they can, at the people. It\u2019s not Obama\u2019s fault for being unacceptable. It\u2019s not Obama\u2019s fault for not representing the greatness of America. It\u2019s our fault for not understanding greatness of Obama. It\u2019s our fault for not understanding and accepting the perfect, phony baloney resume of the guy that they created (and that he lived off of, by the way). So here\u2019s this guy who\u2019s Mr. Perfect! His words alone were going to change the world. We find out that his words haven\u2019t changed diddly-squat. Obama has found out that the magic that he had in university that turned a C into an A — that made him a special person and put him at the top of every class he was in — is gone. <\/p>\n

He found out that that magic does not hold, that this job requires work, and he\u2019s really never had to work. He\u2019s been a chosen one for a whole host of reasons (which I\u2019m not gonna bother getting into here) for most of his life. Now he finds out that\u2019s not enough. It\u2019s not enough to make all the socialist Europeans love him, not enough to make all of the Muslims around the world love him, certainly not enough to make the American people bow down and just thank him for being alive. And so he says, ‘Okay, the heck with it. I\u2019m gonna enjoy the perks. I\u2019m going to go play golf, and I\u2019m gonna screw this place up as bad as I can, and I\u2019m gonna write books about it when I get outta here and I\u2019m gonna make more millions — and if I serve a second time term, I\u2019ll screw it up even more. If I don\u2019t, so what? I\u2019ll enjoy the perks as much as I can.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Somebody just sent me an e-mail that was pretty good. ‘Barack Obama is the parsley on the dinner plate. It\u2019s decorative but you don\u2019t eat it. You cast it away. It gets in the way.\u2019 Barack Obama is the parsley on the dinner plate of America. So, yeah, I think the mosque issue is cumulative. It is just the latest in a long line of things that has told the American people: This is not the guy that they told us he was. He\u2019s not the guy he told us he was, certainly not the guy he thought he was. I do think we can win the Senate, but (and there\u2019s always a ‘but\u2019 with these) then what do we do? The Republicans are going to win the House and win the Senate. What we need is for the dominant guiding philosophy in the Republican Party to be conservatism. We\u2019ll see. The ruling class is the ruling class. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to throw cold water on anything here, folks. I\u2019m trying to be realistic, and by ‘realistic\u2019 I\u2019m saying: This is the greatest opportunity conservatives have ever had to contrast themselves with anybody on the left. I mean, there is no greater illustration who they are than this guy, his regime, and this leadership in the Senate and the House. There\u2019s therefore no greater opportunity to contrast Reaganism (for example, just to be brief) with socialism, and I don\u2019t see the Republicans doing it. I see a couple doing it, like Paul Ryan, but I don\u2019t see many. The Republicans are simply sitting around and waiting for the Democrats to be voted against when I think they\u2019re a little bit… Their theory is: ‘When your opponent\u2019s committing suicide, stand away. You know, stand aside and let it happen,\u2019 which makes sense, to a point. <\/p>\n

But at some point they\u2019re going to have to stand for something so that their people have an issue mandate other than ‘We\u2019re not Obama,\u2019 other than, ‘We\u2019re not Democrats.\u2019 So the work will continue, is my only point, after the elections if things hold as they appear to. (interruption) Yeah, I know, I know, I know. No matter what I say, everybody wants to get in on the act. Everybody wants… (interruption) I know parsley is a digestive aid. I know it helps digestion and that\u2019s the real reason it\u2019s on the plate, and Obama doesn\u2019t help digestion. I understand this. (laughing) But the analogy is the appearance. Obama is the parsley on the plate. Have you ever noticed that nothing is ever his fault? If the steak comes out too well done, you don\u2019t blame the parsley. You blame the chef. Obama is just like parsley. He never gets the blame. Not on his side, anyway, and certainly not in the media. It\u2019s always Bush\u2019s fault. Even now. <\/p>\n

Who\u2019s next? Cameron in Hartford, Connecticut, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good day, Doctor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good day, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just wanted to follow up your comments and say that Juan Williams is being specifically consistent in character, but first I wanted to caution you on this. You\u2019re falling into the same trap that everybody is thinking that there\u2019s going to be any change in the November election. The polls in the last election, 2008, were co-opted by the 327 affiliates of ACORN. They found that they could get away with it, and that the culprits could walk and they would be given a free pass by Eric Holder. So don\u2019t think that you\u2019re going to have the opportunity to vote validly in this election unless somebody goes and cleanses the registrars of voter offices.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I think it\u2019s going to be so big it\u2019s gonna overcome all that. They can cheat all they want, but they\u2019re facing such a depressed attitude on their side, they\u2019re going to have to work harder than ever or pay more money than ever to get people out to vote. They\u2019re going to have to put out more buses. They\u2019re going to have to do a whole lot of things. There just isn\u2019t any energy on their side of things. Besides, Joe Bite Me says that we are not going to take Congress, and Joe Bite Me is never right. He is always wrong. So you can put that in our column, too. But I understand your reason for being cautious.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Back to Juan Williams.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: His comments are typically in character for him. As a matter of fact, you were away and Mark Davis was in for you at the time — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Mmmm.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — that he went on with Brian Lamb in a C-SPAN interview Sunday morning. I\u2019m sitting there eating breakfast, and Juan Williams called for a new set of Founding Fathers and I almost dropped my scrambled eggs. I said, ‘Did I hear what I think I heard?\u2019 and sure enough, he did. And the next day I had the opportunity to mention this to Mark, and anybody such as Juan Williams who calls for ‘a new group of Founding Fathers\u2019 is doesn\u2019t have a conservative bone in his body and has no place on any Fox News Channel that holds itself out as right-thinking, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. It\u2019s fair and balanced. ‘Fair and balanced\u2019 means you have to put some idiocy on the air.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, well said, and for him to call for Van Jones can be Kevin Jennings, the safe school czar to be a new Founding Father? Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, he named \u2019em?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, he was not specific, but he was talking about the current regime.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was gonna ask you ‘Who should be the new Founding Fathers?\u2019 and if I was on the list.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it goes with Eric Holder; Van Jones —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — Kevin Jennings, the safe school czar, the most dangerous man in Washington today — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — if you understand what his mission is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And William Ayers and the whole gang of thugs in Chicago where politics is run the way it is, and now that\u2019s national. That\u2019s why there will be no change because the voting booths were taken over by these communists the last time and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but let me tell you something. It\u2019s really much harder to steal elections in the midterms. Without a presidential election on the ballot, it\u2019s really harder. The turnout is much lower, and it makes fraud stick out all the more. It\u2019s much easier to hide the fraud during a presidential election year. Anyway, Cameron, thanks much for the phone call. <\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Greenville, South Carolina, this is Warren. Hi, Warren, great to have you with us on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Appreciate you taking my call. I just wanted to say for starters that I\u2019ve heard you say many times that you\u2019re like 98.7% right —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Point six. Almost always 99.6.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you\u2019re talking to somebody that\u2019s about 99.8% right most of the time. My wife calls me Mr. Right, and I call her Miss Can\u2019t Be Wrong. But, anyway, I appreciate your taking my call. I just want to say that I\u2019m neither Republican nor Democrat. I lean more toward the Democrat, but I\u2019m somewhat, you know, in the middle, and I would like to say that there\u2019s good and bad in every group of people, whether they\u2019re Christians, Muslims, Islamic, that type thing. But I just want to say about the things that President Obama says, I think it\u2019s important that we, you know, speak truthfully as to what he actually says. For instance, when you said that he supports the mosque, I\u2019ve never heard him say he supports the mosque. He says he supports the right. Then you come back and say he backpedaled and said he wasn\u2019t speaking on the wisdom of it. You know, I don\u2019t think the mosque should be built there but I agree with the right and I just think it\u2019s important that, you know, we speak what the — we report what —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, then there shouldn\u2019t be any controversy here because he really didn\u2019t say anything. I mean everybody knows that they\u2019ve got a right to build a church.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And he said they\u2019ve got a right to build a church there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: On private property, yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It sounded like he supported the idea.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he just supports the right. And some people came back and said he\u2019s defending the Constitution, and then —<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, fine. There\u2019s no controversy, then, because he really didn\u2019t say anything.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And then later when you reported that he says hearing the call to worship by the Muslims is the most beautiful sound he\u2019s ever heard, it\u2019s one of the most beautiful sounds —<\/p>\n

RUSH: He said it\u2019s the most beautiful sound in the world, not that he\u2019s ever heard.<\/p>\n

CALLER: One, yes, one of the most, but not the most. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, he really didn\u2019t say that, either, then.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he said it was one of, not the most.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that doesn\u2019t mean anything. It\u2019s one of, there could be a gazillion most beautiful sounds in the world and that\u2019s just one them. It might not even matter even though he made a specific point of —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, my point is that when you report it, you\u2019re saying that he said it was the most. He supports the right, not he didn\u2019t support the mosque. So we\u2019re distorting things that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so he really wasn\u2019t for health care per se, he just likes people having it? Yeah. Okay. He\u2019s not for green energy and cap and trade. He just thinks it\u2019s smart. We got to be careful, that\u2019s right, how we report these things. And, of course, the biggest problem that we\u2019re going to have when we report these things is actually quoting Obama. This is the first time I\u2019ve gotten in trouble for actually quoting him correctly. Normally I\u2019m accused of making it up, which I don\u2019t do. Now I\u2019m in trouble for getting it right. Imagine that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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