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RUSH: Last night on Hardball with Chris Matthews the guest is Roger Simon, Politico. They had a discussion about why Obama\u2019s out there talking about his Christianity, and Matthews says, ‘He talks about his mother, being raised in an atheist family basically for all practical purposes trying to find his religious faith, and he did. I would just hate to have this be called a headline because we\u2019ve known this about him for a long time. Now he\u2019s forced to come out with it. I think an adversarial media will now say he\u2019s saying things that are new to us. There\u2019s nothing new here.\u2019 I\u2019ll tell you what Matthews is saying, ‘Why is he talking about this? His party\u2019s about to get shellacked, his party\u2019s about to get creamed in November because of his policies, and what\u2019s he doing out there talking about this Christianity stuff?\u2019 Matthews is covering up. (imitating Matthews) ‘Well, we know about this, there\u2019s nothing new, we know he\u2019s a Christian, we know his mother was an atheist, we know his mother was a hippie, why is he bringing all this up?\u2019 He asked Roger Simon. Roger Simon said this in response.<\/p>\n

SIMON: Did he really have to throw his family under the bus to make this point? I mean, you know, his family didn\u2019t go to church, but he went to church. To me this is the worst thing he\u2019s —<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Well, come on.<\/p>\n

SIMON: — since comparing his grandmother to Reverend Wright to make a point about everybody — no, I mean this disturbs me. How far do we go in politics to get a few extra votes? I mean, he\u2019s a Christian. Fine, say he\u2019s a Christian.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. They\u2019re fraying away out there on the edges. So Roger Simon: he\u2019s thrown his family under the bus here. Family didn\u2019t go to church but he did, it\u2019s the worst thing he\u2019s done, and Matthews, ‘Ah, come on, come on.\u2019 Matthews and Fineman later on in the program have this discussion about Obama and Simon and Christianity.<\/p>\n

FINEMAN: I don\u2019t agree with that.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: That\u2019s not how — (unintelligible) I don\u2019t agree with that at all. Not at all.<\/p>\n

FINEMAN: I don\u2019t agree — I think — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Because I know his background was his mother was kind of a hippie, mother was — she was a free thinker, she wasn\u2019t a churchgoer, that\u2019s all he\u2019s saying. He wasn\u2019t saying his mother wasn\u2019t spiritual, he was —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Man, oh, man everybody is discombobulated out there. Howard Fineman says, ‘Oh, no, I don\u2019t agree with that.\u2019 Matthews, ‘I don\u2019t agree with that.\u2019 Roger, you\u2019re full of crap, why you bringing this up, Roger? Can you imagine what happened after this show was over, Fineman and Matthews ganging up on Roger and saying, ‘What the hell, don\u2019t you know you\u2019re just feeding the Limbaughs of the world out there, throwing his mother under the bus, worst thing he\u2019s ever done since comparing his grandmother to Reverend Wright to make a point?\u2019 Which he did. You remember that, Dawn, you remember when he did? That was in the famous race speech in Pennsylvania. He was outside Philadelphia, and he said his grandmother was a typical white person, grandma was a typical white person, saw a black guy and said, ‘Uh-oh,\u2019 and crossed the street and ran the other way, typical white person. ‘Oh, my God, Obama\u2019s throwing his grandmother who raised him under the bus here in order to save Reverend Wright.\u2019 And Roger Simon says, ‘Yeah, now he\u2019s thrown his mother under the bus, she\u2019s an atheist. Why is he doing this?\u2019 And it is a good question. His party is on the verge of getting shellacked, at least according to the polls, and what\u2019s Obama out there doing here? What\u2019s he doing? Well, he\u2019s a narcissist. Something obviously bothers him about this, and party doesn\u2019t matter to him. Remember, I think he\u2019s actually looking forward to Republicans running the House so that when 2012 comes along he can run against them rather than his own party. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, P.J. O\u2019Rourke is still around, and P.J. O\u2019Rourke can still nail it now and then. He can still be funny, and he did last night. It was not a good night for Matthews last night on Hardball, it really wasn\u2019t \u2019cause after all this Obama religion stuff got thrown back in Matthews\u2019 face he started in on Christine O\u2019Donnell and what he thinks are sophist statements on evolution, and P.J. O\u2019Rourke just sent Matthews to the showers on this one. We\u2019ll play you the audio when we get back. Won\u2019t be long.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s P. J. O\u2019Rourke last night, PMSNBC Hardballed, Chris Matthews: ‘P.J., why aren\u2019t monkeys still evolving in front of our face? I mean Christine O\u2019Donnell says if you\u2019re looking at a monkey and it\u2019s not turning into your little brother, then there\u2019s no evolution. I mean that\u2019s her point. What do you say to this, P.J.?\u2019<\/p>\n

O\u2019ROURKE: I got some problems with evolution myself. I mean because I look around at say Democrats, and I say that\u2019s evolved? You know, I would say it\u2019s kind of going in the other direction.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So here\u2019s Matthews, he thinks P.J. O\u2019Rourke is going to join him in pummeling Christine O\u2019Donnell, sets him up with a softball, a hanging softball, and P.J. says, ‘Yeah, I kind of agree with her. You look at the Democrats and say evolution? That\u2019s kinda going in the other direction.\u2019 We know what Christine O\u2019Donnell says. Hey, look, if there\u2019s evolution, how come there\u2019s still monkeys? How come the monkey doesn\u2019t evolve in front of our face? Why is it still a monkey? If we came from the apes, why are there still apes? How come the gorillas that are still there got left out of the deal? How did some of us become advanced humans and King Kong is still out there as King Kong? I know what she\u2019s saying. It\u2019s a matter of choice. Obviously some gorillas did not want to become humans because they didn\u2019t want to get blamed for destroying their own habitat. And there\u2019s nothing wrong with staying a gorilla. I mean if you want to stay a gorilla that\u2019s absolutely fine. You want to be King Kong, I mean who knows, Naomi Watts, you might get to meet her someday. You probably got a better chance of meeting Naomi Watts as a gorilla than you do as a gas station attendant. I mean, if I was a gorilla that\u2019s the way I\u2019d be looking at it. <\/p>\n

Now, evolution, I know that evolution is Darwin, and I think there are two guys who have probably done more to screw up the human race on balance. It\u2019s probably a tough thing to signal out two guys out of all of the people that have been destructive to the human race, you gotta put Hitler up there and so forth, but I mean Hitler\u2019s efforts were finite. There are two guys whose work goes on and on and on that continue to just have everything all screwed up. One was Darwin, the other is Freud. You ever stop to think what would happen if Freud had never been born, or Freud had become a barber. If Darwin had become a street sweeper rather than a scientist, how things would be different. We might not even have liberals were it not for those two guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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