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RUSH: Half of the sound bites today are about me. Despite all that\u2019s happened over the weekend, half of these things are about me. And you know me, folks: I never want to make this show about me. Snerdley keeps saying, “Where are the sound bites on you?” I\u2019ll give you an example of what\u2019s here. We will start audio sound bite number one. We\u2019re gonna skip — by the way, Mike we\u2019re gonna skip — four and five. Here is Fareed Zakaria GPS, Fareed Zakaria Global Positioning Satellite. It\u2019s Fareed\u2019s take commentary on Fareed Zakaria GPS Sunday morning on CNN.<\/p>\n

ZAKARIA: The charge that President Obama is attempting to change America fundamentally is a staple of right-wing talk shows. Rush Limbaugh and others routinely assert that Obama\u2019s policies are intentionally designed to transform America and dull its distinctive edge. This rhetoric does raise an important question: What makes America exceptional? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait. Wait. Here\u2019s the second part of it.<\/line><\/p>\n

ZAKARIA: America is a nation created on the basis of diversity, of race —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

ZAKARIA: — religion —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s not!<\/p>\n

ZAKARIA: — national origin, and there are efforts to change America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

ZAKARIA: There are plans for religious and ethnic tests to bar immigrants and even visitors, and also to track immigrants and visitors when they are in the US. There have been calls to deport people, even American citizens. There are proposals to monitor houses of worship. These ideas would fundamentally change America, tearing at its founding DNA. Who is proposing these changes? Last time I checked, it was not Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fareed Zakaria GPS is in the tank for Obama. Now, this is absurd. This is totally absurd. Who in the world — Obama has said he wants to transform America, and here comes Fareed Zakaria GPS to deny that it\u2019s happening. “It\u2019s fundamentally a staple of right wing talk shows. Rush Limbaugh routinely asserts Obama\u2019s policies are intentionally designed to –” he said so, Fareed. He has said so. Can there be any doubt? All you gotta do is look at what he\u2019s doing and then, the piece de resistance, “America is a nation created on the basis of diversity of race, religion, national origin” <\/p>\n

The hell it is. It\u2019s a nation created uniquely on the basis of individual liberty and freedom. It\u2019s not based on diversity. It\u2019s not based on quotas. It wasn\u2019t put together based on the color of people\u2019s skin. It wasn\u2019t put together on the basis of their sexual orientation. It wasn\u2019t assembled and put together on the basis of their gender. None of that. This is a classic example of these clowns and their pollution and corruption of the Constitution as a living, breathing document. “America\u2019s a nation created the basis of diversity of race, religion, national original, and there are efforts to change America, plans.” Religious freedom is being blown to smithereens in the name of socialism and liberalism. That\u2019s not how this country was created. <\/p>\n

Now, I can blame Fareed Zakaria for not knowing it; he\u2019s not from here. He\u2019s on the global positioning satellite, but this is just dead wrong. And to come along here and try to save Obama by discrediting me and I guess alternatively Rubio, this is classic, folks. This is exactly how this country is being corrupted and bastardized, is to say it\u2019s put together — It\u2019s crazy, wacko, leftist liberals that look at the world this way. <\/p>\n

America was colorblind. Well, the intention was colorblind. The whole slavery thing is a black mark, there\u2019s no question. Can\u2019t erase it. But it was our own Constitution which established the basis for eliminating it. And we became the first country in the history of the world to abolish it. But no credit\u2019s given. As far as these clowns are concerned, we\u2019re still in slavery, and it\u2019s not just blacks that are in slavery. Women are in slavery. Gays are enslaved. LGBT people are enslaved. That\u2019s what they believe. The Constitution and the country was assembled so that they wouldn\u2019t be slaves, and their objective here is to free everybody from the stupid shackles they live in when nobody\u2019s in shackles. <\/line><\/p>\n

Moving on. Jacob Weisberg at Slate.com was on C-SPAN\u2019s Book TV Saturday night. They played a talk by him. He\u2019s got a book called Ronald Reagan: The American Presidents Series: The 40th President, 1981-1989.<\/p>\n

WEISBERG: If you really want to get a sense of how Reagan thought, these transcripts of his radio commentaries from the late seventies are the most interesting thing, and they\u2019re really good, and they\u2019re written out in longhand with very few scratch-outs, and they\u2019re good. They\u2019re cogent. They\u2019re somewhat different. They\u2019re pretty far out there sometimes, but they were original and interesting, and it has that quality, you know, a little bit the Rush Limbaugh quality. You may violently disagree with it, but it\u2019s kind of compelling, you kind of want to keep listening or keep reading.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it. The Reagan commentaries. My station, where I worked at in the sixties, played those Reagan commentaries. I remember them. So I\u2019ll take that. I mean, I\u2019ve been lumped in there with “commentaries were Limbaugh-like, Limbaugh quality.” I would say that it\u2019s the other way around. I am Reagan-like. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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