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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, prepare thyselves, because I have here a sound bite from just this afternoon on Wolf on CNN. He spoke with the head honcho of the Monochrome Coalition, the Reverend Jackson. And Wolf said, “I know you have strong views. The fact that Thad Cochran, the Republican incumbent Senator in Mississippi, reaching out to African-American voters in Mississippi, mostly Democrats, to secure this primary victory. What\u2019s the bottom line here, Reverend Jackson? What\u2019s your message from what happened?”<\/p>\n

JACKSON: The bottom line, if it were a white primary and blacks couldn\u2019t vote, it wouldn\u00c2\u2019t have been the outcome. Our voting determined the outcome. Our not voting determined the outcome. And when there\u00c2\u2019s a reach-out, I mean, what made Bill Clinton so strong coming out of Hope, Arkansas, he reached out. I mean, his opposition had more white votes than he did. He had more white, black and brown. So a multicultural rainbow coalition is America\u2019s future<\/p>\n

RUSH: So let me — (laughing) — I know. Anybody know what he said? I do. That\u2019s why I\u2019m host. I\u2019ll explain this to you. In the first place, really the only thing you need to know here is that the Reverend Jackson\u2019s not mad by the question. If this black turnout for Thad Cochran were really, really meaningful<\/a> then the Reverend Jackson would be criticizing it. He\u2019d be ripping it to shreds. He\u2019d be calling it illegitimate. He would claim that it was created with lies and deceit. <\/p>\n

But no. The Reverend Jackson\u2019s all for this. That alone tells you this doesn\u2019t mean diddly-squat. “The bottom line, if it were a white primary and blacks couldn\u2019t vote, it wouldn\u2019t have been the outcome.” Okay, we need to diagram that sentence. And, by the way, folks, just so you know, the VA is still a scandal, we\u2019re still losing Iraq, Obamacare is still a disaster, and we\u2019re still being flooded at the Southern border. It\u2019s still happening out there, while all this is going on. <\/line><\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019ve had people say, “You know what? You\u2019re letting them distract you by focusing so much on you. It\u2019s what they always do. They get you talking about what you didn\u2019t do wrong, and now and then you –” Ladies and gentlemen, we\u2019re having too much fun with this, don\u2019t you understand? This is a gold mine. This is fun! And while we\u2019re doing this, Lois Lerner\u2019s still demanding that Chuck Grassley be audited. The IRS is still the smarmy bunch they\u2019ve always been. The Southern border\u2019s still being flooded, and everybody knows that. It\u2019s not as though because I\u2019m talking about this that people have forgotten any of that stuff today. <\/p>\n

The economy\u2019s still contracting. Obama\u2019s approval numbers are still in the tank, and the country is still teetering. Yeah, just relax. We got it in hand here. Everything\u2019s under control. Just because we\u2019re talking about this today doesn\u2019t mean people have forgotten that other stuff is happening. <\/p>\n

“The bottom line, if it were a white primary and blacks couldn\u2019t vote, it wouldn\u2019t have been the outcome. Our voting determined the outcome. Our not voting determined the outcome.” So the Reverend Jackson is basically saying we hold all the cards. If we vote, if we don\u2019t vote, the outcome changes. “If it were a white primary and blacks couldn\u2019t vote, it wouldn\u2019t have been the outcome.” Well, of course. If the blacks hadn\u2019t turned out, it wouldn\u2019t have been the outcome. True enough. “And when there\u2019s a reach-out, I mean, what made Bill Clinton so strong coming out of Hope, Arkansas? He reached out. I mean, his opposition had more white votes than he did. He had more white, black, and brown, so a multicultural Rainbow Coalition is America\u2019s future.” <\/p>\n

None of which happened here. I don\u2019t know how you get from Thad Cochran to Bill Clinton. I don\u2019t know how you get to reach-out, because Thad didn\u2019t reach out. There wasn\u2019t any reach-out. That\u2019s the point here. And the Reverend Jackson knows it. There were robo-calls. There was race-baiting. The race card was thrown countless times. There was a flier that went around in black counties and voting areas warning them that the Tea Party candidate wanted to take \u2019em back to the days of segregation and stop them from voting. <\/p>\n

There wasn\u2019t any reach-out. Thad Cochran didn\u2019t reach out to anybody. If anybody reached out, it was the Republican base, or establishment, if you will. The Republican establishment reaching out, trying to thwart their own base voters<\/a> is what happened here. Look, folks, the bottom line is, you can\u2019t find a single Democrat or civil rights leader who is in the slightest upset by this. That\u2019s all you need to know, to know that this is not real and doesn\u2019t mean anything other than it meant Chris McDaniels loses and old Thad wins. But it doesn\u2019t mean any terms of realignment. It doesn\u2019t mean the Republicans have figured out a way to reach out and convince blacks to vote. It doesn\u2019t mean any of that, and everybody knows it. Pure and simple. There\u2019s just no two ways about it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, I was just gonna make a point. It\u2019s amazing. I was just gonna make the point that whoever came up with this brilliant strategy in the Thad Cochran campaign that attracted all those black voters could become an instant multimillionaire Republican consultant, right? I mean, this is what the Republican Party has been dreaming of being able to do my whole life: Outreach to the black community. “We don\u2019t need \u2019em all, Rush, just eight, 7% of the black vote, we could bust up that Democrat coalition, and we could win election after election.” And apparently somebody did it, folks. <\/p>\n

If we are to believe the Drive-Bys, a bunch of African-American voters fell in love with the Thad Cochran campaign, and they showed up in droves, and they propelled him to victory. Who is it that came up with this? That person should be on television right now explaining how they did it, because that person could name his price. Every Republican candidate would line up to hire that consultant, that strategist, right? Except there is no strategist, and there is no strategist on TV. There is nobody to hire, because we don\u2019t know who did it. <\/line><\/p>\n

This would be akin to somebody finding the cure for cancer staying anonymous. (interruption) Who would kill? (interruption) Well, any number. Bob Shrum, any number of people would kill for the knowledge that went into this strategy. How did they do it? Who did it? But it\u2019s a mystery. Why, we don\u2019t know, except that we do now. The Huffing and Puffington Post has revealed that it was a group of Democrats, and there is a second pamphlet. Stand by.<\/p>\n

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Okay. So, the Huffing and Puffington Post<\/a>: “An unusual coalition of activists and organizations have united in the hopes of defending Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) in his June 24 runoff against state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-Miss.). As the Clarion-Ledger reported Tuesday, James ‘Scooby Doo\u2019 Warren, a Democratic political operative, says he is working with the Mississippi Conservatives PAC –” again, another Democrat group “– on a statewide plan to turn out votes for Cochran. Meanwhile, Bishop Ronnie Crudup, Sr. of the New Horizon Church in Jackson is affiliated with a super PAC called ‘All Citizens For Mississippi\u2019 that has run advertisements and distributed pro-Cochran fliers.<\/p>\n

It turns out that a bunch of Democrat groups did this. Why, what do you know? At least one of the fliers and robo-calls was put together by a Democrat group, and it\u2019s proudly reported in the Huffing and Puffington Post. There\u2019s a second flier, it\u2019s just as racist as the flier that we had yesterday. And in Democrat circles it\u2019s well known who these people are. But, you know, all they did — it turns out there\u2019s no grand strategy here. It turns out there is nothing new. It turns out there was no reach-out or outreach from Thad Cochran and his campaign to black voters. There is no expansion of the base. There is no crossing bridges and breaking the divide. There\u2019s none of this that the Drive-Bys want you to think happened. <\/p>\n

All it is is what always happens: The Democrat called their opponent a racist. It was just cheap race card politics. That\u2019s all it was. That\u2019s why there\u2019s no grand strategy. That\u2019s why there\u2019s no great, brilliant millionaire in waiting here on TV claiming credit for it, \u2019cause there\u2019s nothing new. It was just a bunch of Democrats that got together and started sliming the Tea Party candidate as a racist. There was no reaching across the aisle. There was no outreach. There was no appeal to black voters to join the Republican Party, to change their life, there was none of that. <\/line><\/p>\n

In fact, we checked All Citizens for Mississippi, there\u2019s no such group registered with the FEC that we can find. So we had Julie Pace, we had John King, we had Jesse Jackson, we had Charlie Rangel all today telling us that this is exactly what the Republican Party should be doing all along. This kind of outreach and broadening their base. Reaching out to minorities and promising them things and telling them they have a home, the Republican Party, Thad Cochran showed how it was done. Except Thad Cochran didn\u2019t do anything and may not have even been aware of it, and even if he is aware of it, he\u2019s probably forgotten it. <\/p>\n

The NAACP, by the way, now wants its cut. Again from the Huffing and Puffington Post<\/a>, headline: “NAACP Wants Thad Cochran to ‘Show Some Reciprocity.'” Well, now I thought Thad did all kinds of stuff for \u2019em. Donna Brazile said so after Hurricane Katrina. I thought this was gratitude from the victims of Katrina to thank Thad Cochran for all that he had done. It looks like this group, All Citizens For Mississippi, is a church group. And as you know, they\u2019re not supposed to be, if they\u2019re a 501(c)(3), if they\u2019re a charity, they\u2019re not supposed to be involved in politics, but they\u2019ll look the other way here because the end result is what everybody wanted. They will not lose their exemption. <\/p>\n

So there is no grand strategy. There was no outreach. There was no building of bridges. There was no reaching across the aisle. And John King knew it and Julie Pace knew it, and Donna Brazile knew it, Ari Fleischer knew it. The Republican Party establishment knows it. All that happened here is what always happens, a bunch of Democrats got together and called a Republican Party a racist and put together a bunch of lying, filthy pamphlets and robo-calls to spread that message. That\u2019s it. Nothing new to see. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: How can there be, ladies and gentlemen, and this cuts to the nub of this, really to the quick. And I just got an e-mail from a friend, he said, “You know, it sounds like you\u2019re having a really good time doing this today.” And I have been. This has been immensely fun and enjoyable. It is a bummer that it\u2019s necessary to do. It is a bummer that you gotta explain this every which way from Sunday, but this has still been fun. I love highlighting ignorance and stupidity and failed efforts to slime me. <\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the real nub of it. So they want us to believe there\u2019s been this massive realignment, so to speak, that we\u2019ve had, “Wow, look at this, the black vote really moved over to the Republican Party. Thad Cochran, what a strategy! What was it?” And everybody praising that this happened. It\u2019s a beautiful thing. How can there be this massive shift to the Republican Party when the Democrat Party wasn\u2019t on the ballot? It was a Republican runoff. There was no Democrat on the ballot. Thad Cochran took the place of the Democrat. <\/p>\n

The Republican Party establishment and the media made Thad the equivalent Democrat in this race, and they treated the Tea Party guy as a traditional Republican racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. But in truth both were Republicans. So these voters were not abandoning their own party here. All this is absurd, folks. And we have now covered this every which way possible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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