{"id":7938,"date":"2014-10-31T16:36:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T16:36:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-10-31T16:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T16:36:02","slug":"pathetic_democrats_turn_back_the_clock_50_years_blame_their_problems_on_racism_and_sexism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/10\/31\/pathetic_democrats_turn_back_the_clock_50_years_blame_their_problems_on_racism_and_sexism\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathetic Democrats Turn Back the Clock 50 Years, Blame Their Problems on Racism and Sexism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/62877\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Snerdley is all excited for me to get to Mary Landrieu, and it\u2019s coming up.  Let me repeat something I said during the show open because the Open Line Friday musical theme was playing.  I\u2019m still a little hoarse.  I don\u2019t know if you can hear me over the theme.  I couldn\u2019t hear myself over it, so let me just repeat something. <\/p>\n<p>Here we have the hip, the modern, the cool Democrat Party. They have had to turn their playbook back to 1963 in a last-ditch, panic-filled effort to get out the black vote.  Charlie Rangel says that Republicans still believe in slavery, still treat people in the black community as though they are slaves.  I watched specifically cable news networks this morning for Democrat analysts, and they\u2019re all acting embarrassed as hell. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no way they can defend it.  Even the most strident, ardent, racist leftist would not even try to defend Rangel.  Rangel is living in the past.  He doesn\u2019t know anything but that.  He\u2019s not cool.  He\u2019s not hip.  He doesn\u2019t live in the moment.  He can\u2019t relate to things that have happened in America.  He cannot get the black vote other than to pretend it\u2019s still 1963.  In his case, 1863. <\/p>\n<p>Mary Landrieu. (sigh) Insulting, pathetic, incompetent.  The previous governor was a woman, the current governor is a minority &#8212; Bobby Jindal, dark-skinned, Indian-American, immigrant [parents]. And yet Louisiana doesn\u2019t like people of color, and Louisiana, and doesn\u2019t like women &#8212; even though they\u2019ve elected Mary Landrieu &#8212; and that\u2019s why they don\u2019t like Obama. And that\u2019s why he can\u2019t go to Louisiana is because people in the South just don\u2019t like black people. <\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s just gotta be honest. They just don\u2019t like black people in the South, and they don\u2019t like uppity women in the South. They just don\u2019t, even though she\u2019s been elected&#8230; What is this, her third term? Kathleen Blanco got elected governor.  She is living in the past.  They\u2019re clueless, folks.  These Democrats are not these invincible cool, hip, in-with-it people that the low-information crowd idolizes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just one of the biggest myths in the world.  These people are actually out of ammunition.  They cannot, they cannot offer one reason why you should vote for them.  (interruption) Yeah, right there on top of the iPads.  That\u2019d be great.  Just put \u2019em right there on top of the iPads and I\u2019ll just hurry for the show to end so I can go see what you got there.  That\u2019s great.  Thanks.  Just right there on top of the iPads.  That\u2019s cool.<\/p>\n<p>I just had a delivery.  Don\u2019t sweat it. Everything\u2019s fine. I haven\u2019t lost my place.  What was I saying? (interruption) I know I was talking about Landrieu.  I\u2019m joking here.  These people are totally stuck in a politics that\u2019s 50 years old. Furthermore, as Rangel describes Republicans, he\u2019s actually describing Democrats!  Landrieu talks about how the South is unfriendly to blacks? It was Democrats in the South unfriendly to blacks. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nuxfw9iFinQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was Democrats, Bull Connor and these guys with the fire hoses and beating people upside the head and so forth.  It is just breathtaking to watch this.  They\u2019re showing their idiocy.  It\u2019s so bad that you don\u2019t even have Democrat analysts on television trying to defend this.  They\u2019re stuck 50 years ago.  I think you look at this and you wonder so many things. <\/p>\n<p>How in the world have these people continued to get elected all of these years when they\u2019ve got nothing to offer? They haven\u2019t done anything for their constituents.  They\u2019ve made their lives worse; they\u2019ve busted up their families.  Talking about minorities here.  And now, who knows?  We may be at a seminal moment.  I don\u2019t want to grasp at&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, not grasp at straws.  I don\u2019t want to maybe grasp at something that isn\u2019t there.  But, man, is this a teachable moment?  Is this a teachable moment? I mean, even the most strident, extreme, radical black leftists do not think that we live still in the era of slavery!  Most of them, no way do they think there hasn\u2019t been any progress. <\/p>\n<p>What Rangel and Landrieu are trying to say is that there hasn\u2019t been a shred\u2019s bit of progress.  All of this after the first African-American president gets elected in this country, and they still run around and say this?  Can I remind you, ladies and gentlemen, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=28470\">what I predicted on this program on February 22, 2008<\/a>?  February. This is like seven, eight months, 10 months before the election of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH ARCHIVE:  &#8220;If Obama gets elected president, wouldn\u2019t it be good to just get this done, Rush, then we could end those civil rights squabbles that we\u2019re having?&#8221; It wouldn\u2019t do that, folks. It wouldn\u2019t do that. It might even exacerbate them. &#8230; You know that the race industry can\u2019t wait for this. Any criticism of Obama, the first black president, is going to be met with charges of racism by the likes of the Reverends Jackson and Sharpton.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_98113\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/DemVoteShameTacticPIX.jpg\"\/><BR\/>It will make their race business all that much more prominent. It will operate on the premise that half of this country is seething, can\u2019t believe this has happened and they\u2019re going to fix this somehow, cannot believe there\u2019s a black man in the White House and a black woman in the residence. That will be the theme that the race business operates on. It will be full of presumptuousness and projection, but it will propel it.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Where are we now, folks?  Is this not exactly what has happened?  Here we are a few days, just a precious few days before a midterm election in Barack Hussein O\u2019s sixth year as president, and his party is running an entire campaign on race in which the opposing party still believes in slavery.  In every state, in every campaign, these pathetic, embarrassing, brain-dead, mindless Democrats are out crying racism. <\/p>\n<p>And I knew.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the point playing the sound bite. <\/p>\n<p>This was easily predictable. <\/p>\n<p>The election of the first black president was not gonna end racism in America.  The racism business was not gonna tolerate that.  There\u2019s no way the race industry ever goes away.  Too much money in it, too much power.  It\u2019s the reason that Sharpton and Jackson have seats at the table of power in the Democrat Party.  But even besides that, it was easily predictable.  So here we are six years after the election of the first black president, and the Democrat Party wants you to believe it\u2019s worse than ever?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_98116\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/MediaMOnt103114.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH:  Hey, folks, it\u2019s not just Mary Landrieu.  My nickname for her is &#8220;Cute Little Baby Fat&#8221; because she still looks like she\u2019s got some baby fat.  It\u2019s not just Mary Landrieu. It\u2019s not just Charlie Rangel.  Spike Lee is out. He was on the Fusion TV network website.  I have the sound bite coming up.  I don\u2019t have time to play all these bites; rather, I\u2019ll just give you a little heads-up. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Post-Racial America is B&#8212;S&#8212;.&#8221;  Wendy Davis, in Texas, running an ad says that Greg Abbott does not want blacks to vote.  The Forehead, Paul Begala, on CNN today said, &#8220;Democrats are in trouble in states where they hunt Democrats down with dogs.&#8221;  Thirty-, 40-year-old playbook pages are being utilized by the Democrat Party.  They\u2019ve got nothing else.  I hope all of you remember something. <\/p>\n<p>I hope every last one of you remembers something.  So many people back in 2008 voted for one reason.  They voted for the first African-American president, not caring about his politics, not interested in his ideology.  The only thing that mattered to them was they hated the fact that there is racism in the country. They\u2019re sick and tired of being called racists. They\u2019re sick and tired of the racial divide.<\/p>\n<p>They want everybody to get over it, and they thought voting for the first black man to run for office &#8212; if he won &#8212; we could finally erase it and move on and move forward.  I think people voted for Obama with the best of intentions, and a lot of people voted for Obama hoping that it would send a signal that this country isn\u2019t the way the Democrat Party describes it. And look what\u2019s happened.  It\u2019s gotten worse.  I hope people will realize: symbolism over substance loses.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  It\u2019s Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, and the Excellence in Broadcasting Net.  A thrill and a delight to have you here.  All right, let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites and we will start.  This is Spike Lee yesterday on the Fusion TV network.  They posted a video of America with Jorge Ramos.  Jorge Ramos is interviewing Spike Lee, and Jorge Ramos said, &#8220;What do you tell your kids about race in America?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Now, this is a guy that\u2019s filthy rich because he\u2019s made movies. He\u2019s got courtside seats to the New York Knicks.  He\u2019s running around talking about racism and post-race this and post-race that.  I\u2019ll tell you what we have here, folks.  What we\u2019re seeing is post-racial racism.  This was supposed to be a post-racist America, a post-partisan America, meaning, Obama was gonna end partisanship. <\/p>\n<p>Remember all that?  Obama was gonna be the end racism.  The election of the first black president, that alone, no matter what else he did, no matter what he believed in, just his election was gonna end racism once and for all.  People actually hoped that. People actually believed that.  All it\u2019s done is get worse.  We are in a post-racial racism, almost all of it coming from the left, almost all of the racism in this country coming from the Democrat Party.  Almost every single racist comment, racial aspect of every story, sexist, racial, whatever it is, it\u2019s all coming from the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n<p>By admission, the Republicans aren\u2019t saying anything.  And I have to tell you, I think this is one of the reasons why the Democrats are so discombobulated.  The Republicans have, whether you agree with the strategy or not, the Republicans have instituted omerta, silence.  They are not saying anything about anything.  They are not articulating their own agenda.  They\u2019re not criticizing Obama\u2019s, other than within the context of campaigns, and that\u2019s really not so much about Obama directly.  The Republicans are dealing with the candidates they oppose.  And the Democrats have nothing.  There aren\u2019t any silly statements Republicans have made to focus on that they can amplify and say, &#8220;See, America?  This is who these Republicans are.&#8221;  They\u2019re at a loss.  They\u2019re in panic city.  All they know how to do is go back in time 50 years. Here\u2019s Spike Lee and his effort at it.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_98122\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpikeLeeFusion_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>LEE: People get in trouble are the people who forget they\u00c2\u2019re black. You just can\u00c2\u2019t think, well, though I\u2019m successful then I\u00c2\u2019ve just reached another realm and I\u00c2\u2019m in this so-called post- what\u00c2\u2019s the term again?<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RAMOS: Racial?<\/p>\n<p>AUDIENCE: Racial America.<\/p>\n<p>LEE: Yeah, that bull&#8211; (bleeped) Because now we have a black, African-American President, that race no longer matters. There are times, even today it\u00c2\u2019s hard for me to catch a cab sometimes in New York City. There a lot of people who believe that when our President but his hand on Abraham Lincoln\u00c2\u2019s bible and did the oath that hocus-pocus, abracadabra, poof! We\u00c2\u2019re in a post-racial world.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  That\u2019s exactly right.  That\u2019s exactly what people thought was gonna happen.  That\u2019s what many people, many white people, hoped and prayed would happen.  Yeah, Spike Lee complaining again.  But here\u2019s the thing.  It was the Republicans.  I\u2019m convinced a lot of Republicans voted for Obama in 2008 hoping and praying that it would be the end of all this silly racism everywhere-you-turn business.  I believe the American people want to unify on that.  The American people want to put this behind us.  We\u2019ve dealt with it and move on, rather than have our politics and our daily culture dominated by it and the only reason it is is because the Democrat Party can say or see or do nothing else. <\/p>\n<p>Spike, hire a driver if you can\u2019t find a cab.  What are you doing taking cabs anyway?  Call Uber.  Get with it.  I thought you were a hip Democrat.  Ever heard of Uber?  Get an Uber account, put it on your phone, call \u2019em up.  They\u2019ll be there in five seconds after you order the car.  Can\u2019t get a cab in New York?  Who does he think he is?  Danny Glover?  Okay, so that\u2019s Spike Lee. So we find ourselves now that post-racial racist America, and here is Mary &#8220;cute baby fat&#8221; Landrieu.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_98125\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/marylandrieu_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>LANDRIEU:  To be very, very honest with you, the South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.  It\u2019s been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a very positive light as a leader.  It\u2019s not always been a good place for women to be able to present ourselves.  It\u2019s more of a conservative place.  So we\u2019ve had to work a little bit harder on that.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  So she just calls the entire South racist and sexist, and she doesn\u2019t even live there anymore.  Did you know that?  The latest controversy with her is she doesn\u2019t have a house there, or doesn\u2019t live in it.  She lives in Washington. She couldn\u2019t find her own address in New Orleans if she had to.  She\u2019s forgotten it, hasn\u2019t been there in a long time.  But even beyond that, people are greeting this with jokes, laughter.  Nobody\u2019s taking this seriously because this is embarrassing.  You don\u2019t even have any Democrats out trying to defend this. <\/p>\n<p>The governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, is dark-skinned eastern Indian.  Kathleen Blanco, a woman, former governor.  There isn\u2019t a mayor of New Orleans who isn\u2019t black in the last who knows how many terms.  The president of the United States is black.  Mary Landrieu blames Democrat problems on Southern hostility toward blacks and women.  You know why Barack Obama\u2019s in trouble in Louisiana?  Because of Barack Obama and his policies. <\/p>\n<p>Ever heard of the Keystone pipeline?  Louisiana can\u2019t get by without oil.  Louisiana is an oil economy.  Barack Obama has done his best to make sure that oil flowing to Louisiana from the would-be Keystone pipeline isn\u2019t happening.  There are policy reasons why Barack Obama is opposed everywhere, not just in the South. <\/p>\n<p>But what a thing to say.  What an absolutely desperate, crazy, literally lunatic thing to say in 2014.  &#8220;You know, it\u2019s been hard for women. Not a good place for women to present ourselves, either.&#8221;  Well, how many times have you been elected?  How many times did you win elections down there, Mary?  How is this possible with you in the US Senate and Barack Obama in the White, how is all this racism and sexism even possible? <\/p>\n<p>Folks, not only are these people not hip and cool and all that, they\u2019re not even smart.  They can\u2019t even improvise.  And what they\u2019re really penalized by, their own policies are abject failures.  Look at it this way.  First black president, major, major, major step in American history.  One of the biggest historical events ever.  After six years, the country is in bad shape.  I mean, it\u2019s in worse shape than maybe in most people\u2019s lifetimes.  You don\u2019t think that has an impact on people\u2019s view of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party? <\/p>\n<p>Democrat Party policies matter.  Democrat Party policies are damaging people.  Democrat Party policies are damaging the United States, damaging health care, damaging jobs, damaging the economy.  We have no immigration law being enforced, for all intents and purposes.  We got 92 million Americans not working.  We\u2019ve got people losing income.  They\u2019re not seeing incomes rise. We have people, because of Obama\u2019s health care policy, being converted from full-time to part-time work.  It makes every bit of sense in the world that people would oppose this man.  Black, white, green, from Mars, it doesn\u2019t matter. <\/p>\n<p>Common sense says you don\u2019t want any more of what Barack Obama and the Democrat Party are offering.  And because the Democrats cannot tout anything they\u2019ve done, there isn\u2019t one Democrat Party policy that any Democrat could run around and say, &#8220;Want more of this?  &#8216;Cause I got it for you,&#8221; \u2019cause nobody wants more of it.  The only thing they can do: play the race card, the War on Women card.  But they can\u2019t even do that well now because they have to go back 50 years.  They have to try to create a mental image of an American that no longer exists. <\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re the smart ones?  They are the compassionate ones?  They are the tolerant ones?  These people are embarrassing.  They\u2019re embarrassing to their own analysts.  All right.  Here is an ad being run for this empty suit in Texas, Wendy Davis.  It\u2019s a radio ad attacking the Republican gubernatorial candidate, Attorney General Greg Abbott, who\u2019s in a wheelchair, don\u2019t forget.  Here is that ad.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_98126\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/wendydavis_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>NARRATOR:  Have you heard about this guy running for governor, the Republican Greg Abbott? Well, listen up because Greg Abbott is bad news. As Attorney General, Greg Abbott tried to overturn the Voting Rights Act. Take a guess about who Abbott doesn\u2019t want to vote.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Wow, see, so now the Republican attorney general and gubernatorial candidate, he doesn\u2019t want blacks to vote.  Yeah, he doesn\u2019t want black people to vote.  I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s an embarrassing thing, is how many African-American voters still get sucked into this and believe this.  These are worse than abject lies.  You know, this goes to character assassination, character destruction.  But it\u2019s baseless.  Greg Abbott doesn\u2019t want black people to vote.  The point is none of it\u2019s working.  That\u2019s the bright side. <\/p>\n<p>According to the all the early voting data, none of it\u2019s working.  Try to put yourself in their shoes, first African-American president, I mean, messiah, utopia, it\u2019s here, and the guy\u2019s bungled everything.  He has not given the Democrat Party a good name here.  He\u2019s not given socialism a good name.  This guy has practically destroyed everything he believes in, I mean from the standpoint of popular consumption.  As far as he\u2019s concerned, I think he\u2019s been overwhelmingly successful.  I think he\u2019s doing exactly what he intended to do. <\/p>\n<p>Most people don\u2019t look at it that way.  They look at him as just the latest Democrat to get elected and things aren\u2019t going well, so it\u2019s time to vote for the Republicans.  The man\u2019s been very successful with his agenda, in my opinion. But most people, as I say, are just gonna look and see him as failure.  I\u2019d kind of be upset, too, if I were Democrat, African-American.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, my God, finally we got a messiah and he turns out to be an incompetent joke? Everything we thought we believed in has been implemented and nobody\u2019s happy. Everybody\u2019s mad. Nothing works. There is no fairness. There is no equality. Not everybody\u2019s gotten rich, and the rich are still rich.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We haven\u2019t been able to make \u2019em poor. We haven\u2019t been able to take everything away from them.&#8221;  Damn, I\u2019d be pissed off, too.  Here\u2019s The Forehead, Paul Begala, on CNN\u2019s New Day today. Alisyn Camerota said, &#8220;The New York Times in an op-ed calls this the best general election in a decade \u2019cause there are a dozen super-close Senate races and a dozen super-close governor races.  What\u2019s gonna happen on Tuesday,&#8221; Forehead?<\/p>\n<p>BEGALA:  I understand why the Democrats are in trouble.  First off, the map.  We\u2019re runnin\u2019 in states where they hunt Democrats down with dogs.  I mean, my goodness the president lost in Arkansas by 24 points, lost Louisiana by 17 points. He lost Alaska by 14.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Where do they hunt Democrats with dogs?  In no state are Democrats hunted with dogs.  Now, you can go back in time and you can find a time when Democrats hunted African-Americans with dogs, but you can\u2019t find Democrats being hunted by dogs.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We\u2019re gonna start in Dayton, Ohio.  This is David.  Great to have you on the program, sir.  Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hi, Rush.  Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  You bet, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  I just wanted to make a comment about something that I\u2019ve seen in a lot of my liberal friends and also in Democratic campaigns about their strategy of getting people to vote for them. And I think it applies to playing the race card, and that is they feel like if they just put out there that they\u2019re concerned about an issue &#8212; they bring up an issue and say they\u2019re concerned about it &#8212; and then that\u2019s their policy without really even bringing up any real or specific solutions to the problem. They just kind of have a slogan like, &#8220;Oh, there\u2019s a race issue in the South. Vote Democrat.&#8221; You know, without really offering any real solutions.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  That\u2019s a good point.  We have discussed this on previous occasions, and I have a description for it, what you just described, and that is getting credit for being a good liberal by simply identifying the problem, and then people think you care.  You got a conservative and a liberal walking down the street and they encounter a homeless guy.<\/p>\n<p>The liberal goes, &#8220;Awwww, look at that! So sad. Oh, my God, what is our country coming to?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The conservative says, &#8220;You know what? Maybe the guy needs to go find a job. We need to help this guy get one.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, easy for you to say! Typical Republican cold-heartedness.  Why can\u2019t you just have a little sympathy?  Don\u2019t you see the man?  He\u2019s living in a shopping cart.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, and it repulses me, and I want to get him into something more productive.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You hate-filled SOB.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Democrat simply gets credit for seeing it.  &#8220;I\u2019m a good person.  I saw a homeless guy and felt bad.  I\u2019m a good person.  I know that blacks are mistreated sometimes.&#8221;  And that\u2019s it!  You don\u2019t have to act. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve always said that liberalism is the most gutless choice you could make.  It\u2019s the easiest.  You don\u2019t have to do anything.  You never have to solve anything. <\/p>\n<p>All you have to do is say you see it and then people automatically assume you care, and maybe even then you know what you do?  You go to a nice $10,000-a-plate dinner for the hungry.  Yeah, and that shows you really care when you go to a $10,000-a-plate fundraiser, and gorge yourself on five-star food and adult beverages &#8230; for the hungry.  Who are still outside begging to get into the hotel and eat with you. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe you\u2019ll give \u2019em a doggie bag on the way out.  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Since we\u2019re talking about racial things, there\u2019s a story in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2014\/10\/30\/how-racial-appeals-to-black-voters-have-changed-and-worsened-under-obama\/\">Washington Post<\/a> that is indescribable.  The headline is misleading.  The headline is:  &#8220;How Racial Appeals to Black Voters Have Changed &#8212; and Worsened &#8212; Under Obama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, without knowing anything else, what would you think that this story is about?  You would have to conclude this story is about Democrats and their ads and how they\u2019re appealing to black voters, because, after all, they are the only ones doing so.  Republicans are not.  But that\u2019s not what the story is about.  It\u2019s by Nia-Malika Henderson. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Making appeals based on race is not new in politics. It can be subtle, like the posters of President Obama sitting in a barber\u2019s chair that hung in black barbershops in 2008. Or it can be overt and bordering on offensive, like the lynching images left on the car windows of black churchgoers in North Carolina. &#8230; As the push to get black voters to the polls comes down to the wire in the midterms, Democrats and progressive groups are using such images to engage black voters. Ferguson, Trayvon Martin and kids in bulletproof vests have all shown up in fliers, radio ads and Web videos. The goal behind the appeals &#8212; whether subtle or overt &#8212; is the same: to spark some sort of emotional connection, either positive or negative, in a voter.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Got it.  So what they\u2019re doing, the Democrats are trying to spark positive emotional connections with photos of lynching, and by lying about Trayvon Martin and Ferguson.  This is not race-baiting; it\u2019s fearmongering.  The Democrats are running the ads, but they are claiming this is what Republicans want to do.  The Republicans, meanwhile, are not doing anything.  They\u2019re not saying diddly-squat about anything.  They have gone mute.  And yet the racial content of the campaign has been ratcheted up.  It\u2019s the Democrats running ads just like they did in 2000, accusing George Bush of wanting to lynch blacks in Texas and drag \u2019em behind cars on dirt roads through rural towns. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_98160\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"original\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fergst.louis.jpg\"\/><BR\/>So the point of this story, I guess Mary Landrieu and Charlie Rangel, they\u2019re just following a Democrat talking point memo that must have gone out to the newspapers because the Washington Post here says that race relations have gotten worse in the six years under Obama.  But you know why?  Because of a backlash fueled by Republicans.  Yeah.  African-Americans are not mad at Obama.  No, no.  And they\u2019re not mad at Democrats.  No, no.  Why would they be?  No, no.  They are mad because the Republicans are fueling this backlash. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the Republicans trying to make the blacks hate the Democrats.  It\u2019s the Republicans trying to make black voters not like Obama and suspect Obama.  I kid you not, that is what this story says.  Therefore, all of these photos that are being used in this article and elsewhere across the country of Ferguson and all of the photos the images of lynchings are being used under the premise that Republicans have brought all of this on themselves with their watermelon jokes and their questioning of Obama\u2019s birth certificate and all that.  So all of this mean-spirited stuff that the Democrats are doing is a backlash to what the Republicans think.  That\u2019s the point of this story. <\/p>\n<p>So the Washington Post says it only is reasonable that the Democrats would be running these stories trying to scare blacks because this is what the Republicans have sponsored.  Meanwhile, the Republicans are doing diddly-squat.  They\u2019re not saying anything.  This is vile, it\u2019s disgusting, it\u2019s filthy, and it\u2019s typical.  It\u2019s predictable.  And it\u2019s also the sure sign of panic settling in.  The Democrats have to routinely make up what Republicans do.  They have to manufacture what Republicans think.  They have to lie about Republicans and what they say.  But after 50 years of doing it, many black voters believe it.  And that\u2019s what they\u2019re relying on now. <\/p>\n<p>What they\u2019re trying to do is gin up black turnout for the cause, for the first African-American president, to not let the Republicans destroy this historic presidency, pure and simple.  And note, there isn\u2019t one paragraph, there isn\u2019t one sentence in this story about all the wonderful things for America Barack Obama has done.  There is not one sentence. There\u2019s not a syllable. There\u2019s not a word. There is not a paragraph about one thing Obama\u2019s policies have done to improve anybody\u2019s life, much less African-Americans\u2019, not one.  This whole story is nothing more than a justification for the lies the Democrats are telling in the campaign, and it\u2019s in your friendly neighborhood Washington Post.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Snerdley is all excited for me to get to Mary Landrieu, and it\u2019s coming up. Let me repeat something I said during the show open because the Open Line Friday musical theme was playing. I\u2019m still a little hoarse. I don\u2019t know if you can hear me over the theme. 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