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RUSH: Last night, CNN, The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer is talking with Mary Matalin and Donna Brazile about Obama and me. Blitzer set up the conversation by playing two clips of me from this show. The subtext here is that Obama is unhappy with my calling him Imam Obama. Now, I\u2019ve not heard Obama say he\u2019s upset with that, have you? We\u2019ve not heard Obama react to this at all. But apparently Wolf Blitzer knows that he\u2019s upset, so here\u2019s how this all went down.<\/p>\n

BLITZER: Rush Limbaugh, among others, has been I guess, you know, saying things about the president that the president clearly doesn\u2019t like. I want to play two clips for you, Donna, what Rush Limbaugh said on August 19th on his hugely popular radio program and what he said today.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: If it was okay and even laudatory to call Bill Clinton America\u2019s first black president, why can\u2019t we call Imam Obama America\u2019s first Muslim president? George Soros is not pledging all this philanthropy; he\u2019s not trying to score points; he\u2019s trying to screw and he\u2019s succeeding at it because he\u2019s bought the Democrat Party and Barack Hussein Imam Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is August 19th and did I say this about Soros yesterday? Maybe. At any rate, what I said here is indisputable. If it was okay and laudatory to call Bill Clinton America\u2019s first black president, then why can\u2019t we call Imam Obama America\u2019s first Muslim president? Clinton wasn\u2019t black. I mean he wasn\u2019t black then. He\u2019s not black now, yet he was the first black president. Obama says he\u2019s not a Muslim, he\u2019s a Christian. So I\u2019m just being consistent. If you Democrats want to say that Bill Clinton was the first black president, Donna Brazile went along with that, and who was it that came up with it? Toni Morrison, a black authorette, because Clinton understood, you know, growing up in the back of an El Camino with AstroTurf in the flatbed back there in Arkansas. He understands what it\u2019s like to be black in America, so he\u2019s the first black president. Well, he never was black, isn\u2019t black now. Obama says he\u2019s not Muslim, so couldn\u2019t we say he\u2019s the first Muslim president? I\u2019m just extending the Democrat logic here. If they don\u2019t like Imam Obama, I can understand that, so we\u2019ll call him Ayatollah Obama. I know Imam Obama might be a little provocative. But Ayatollah Obama, why not? <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Obama ostensibly, Wolf Blitzer knows, unhappy with my referring to him as Imam Obama. So then Blitzer said to Donna Brazile, ‘When you hear Rush Limbaugh calling the president not just Barack Hussein Obama, but Barack Hussein Imam Obama, what do you think, Donna?\u2019<\/p>\n

BRAZILE: Well, first of all I\u2019m not going to react to Rush Limbaugh. I think the reason why Rush Limbaugh says those things is because he knows that the mainstream media and others will, you know, salivate and want to discuss it. But, you know what? In this polluted, volatile political season, unfortunately those kind of comments by Mr. Limbaugh and others will always attract media attention, and it\u2019s a sad statement about where we are today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Aw, let\u2019s get the violins out. It\u2019s a sad statement about where we are today. What she\u2019s admitting here is that the Media Tweak of the Day works. That\u2019s what she\u2019s talking about here. (imitating Brazile) ‘Well, you know, Limbaugh knows the mainstream media, they\u2019re gonna salivate, they\u2019re gonna want to discuss what he says. It\u2019s polluted the volatile political season, those kind of comments are always gonna attract media attention.\u2019 The Media Tweak of the Day works. So Mary Matalin had her two cents. Blitzer said, ‘Are you as appalled at Rush Limbaugh, Mary, as Donna Brazile is?\u2019<\/p>\n

MATALIN: From the very first week of the Obama administration the Democrats have been trying to demonize Rush Limbaugh and they succeeded only in driving people to his show where they find out that he\u2019s not hateful, he\u2019s not angry, he\u2019s a common-sense conservative and he\u2019s a wickedly brilliant satirist. And when they take this humor-impaired, grassy knoller approach to Rush Limbaugh, they make themselves look bad. He was calling it — making those imam remarks in satire in response to Obama\u2019s support for what was then the Ground Zero mosque, and within three days of that the mainstream press was blaming Rush Limbaugh for the doubling of Americans who are confused about the president\u2019s religion. That\u2019s not Rush Limbaugh\u2019s issue. You cannot blame one radio show for the confusion of a third of America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She\u2019s talking about the fact that 20% of the American people think he\u2019s a Muslim. And we didn\u2019t do that poll, the Pew people did that poll. And then the Democrats tried to blame me, 20% of the people think he\u2019s a Muslim because I, El Rushbo, called him Imam Obama, but the poll was taken days before I introduced the Imam Obama term to the American mainstream political discourse. So she\u2019s exactly right, Matalin has nailed it here. Donna Brazile then said this.<\/p>\n

BRAZILE: Mary, look, the simple truth is in a Pew study recently they blame the media, they blame the media for 60% of the American people not knowing President Obama\u2019s faith. But look, I want to say something. I try not to demonize people because I want to know what people are saying, not what they\u2019re reacting to, but what they\u2019re saying. And the reason why I have tried not to react to everything that comes out of Rush Limbaugh\u2019s mouth or Sarah Palin\u2019s tweet is because I believe it\u2019s irrelevant.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, you don\u2019t. You don\u2019t believe it\u2019s irrelevant at all. It\u2019s penetrating. You\u2019re not going to comment on it, she just spent the whole show commenting after she said she wasn\u2019t gonna comment. Two weeks ago Donna was coming after me. She\u2019s always coming after me about something. How is calling somebody an imam demonizing them? No, no, no, seriously. I mean, what\u2019s wrong with being a Muslim? Okay, 20% of the American people think he\u2019s a Muslim. So? What\u2019s wrong with that? There\u2019s a lot of Muslims in the world. Is something inherently bad about being thought to be a Muslim? What\u2019s the big deal about it? It\u2019s like what\u2019s wrong with somebody being gay? I don\u2019t understand. What\u2019s wrong with that? What\u2019s wrong with being a liberal? I mean there are a lot of liberals out there. What\u2019s wrong with it? Imam is simply Arab for ‘leader.\u2019 That\u2019s all it is. It\u2019s not even preacher, not even reverend, just a leader. So how is somebody calling somebody an imam demonizing them? <\/p>\n

Now, do 20% of the American people think Obama\u2019s a ‘Magic Negro\u2019? Why doesn\u2019t Pew go out and poll that? And if they don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s a ‘Magic Negro,\u2019 why not? We thought Obama told people not to listen to me, that that\u2019s not how things get done in Washington. Here Donna Brazile said, ‘Yeah, Limbaugh\u2019s irrelevant, I don\u2019t even talk about him,\u2019 after spending ten minutes talking about me. Well, obviously, folks, this has gotten under Obama\u2019s skin because in Albuquerque, New Mexico, yesterday Obama explained how he became a Christian and he explained what Christianity means to him. And like a lot of people who are religious, he has some misunderstandings about what\u2019s in the Bible and where it\u2019s in the Bible. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ayatollah. You know, imam means leader in Arabic. Ayatollah, by the way, means miraculous sign of God, in Arabic. Maybe, ladies and gentlemen, maybe President Obama would prefer that I use more Christian terms, or Christian-sounding terms, to describe him. So how about ‘the Immaculate Deception\u2019 to describe Obama, his victory, and his campaign. Or, ‘the Teleprompter Messiah.\u2019 There\u2019s any number of ways that we could go with this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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