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August 5, 2009

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RUSH:  A "community organizer" cannot complain when communities organize, yet that is exactly what is happening.  The community organizer-in-chief is all bent out of shape because people are organizing against him and against his lies and against his policies.  July 23rd of 2007, Barack Obama said that it was a qualification to be president to be a community organizer. Now his White House and his party is attacking communities of Americans, organized and otherwise.  Are you kidding me?  This was the badge of honor!  That's the sum total of his career, other than 150 days in the Senate.  This is what Barack Obama said was the best education he ever had was community organizing for ACORN.  It was the highest good of public service -- and he's now trying to swat down citizens who have grievances?  Of course! Because he's a statist.  He's an authoritarian.  Here is a new Democrat National Committee ad targeting the protesters of Barack Obama.  You'll hear Senator DeMint and me in the ad.  

(cheesy dramatic music)

AMERICAN CITIZENS: (chanting) Just say no! Just say no!  

DNC ANNOUNCER: The right-wing extremist Republican base is back. They lost the election. They lost on the Recovery Act, the budget and children's health care. They've lost the confidence of the American people after eight years of failed policies that ruined our economy and cost millions of jobs.

AMERICAN CITIZENS: (chanting) Just say no! Just say no!

DNC ANNOUNCER: Now, desperate Republicans and their well-funded allies are organizing angry mobs -- just like they did during the election. Their goal? Destroy President Obama and stop the change Americans voted for overwhelmingly in November.

DEMINT: It will break him.

RUSH: I hope he fails!

DNC ANNOUNCER: They have no plan for moving our country forward, so they've called out the mob.

RUSH:  I predicted this. You are a mob.  This is the president of the United States who ran as a unifier.  He has now resorted to nothing more than a raw political campaign, as president, against a majority of the American people who oppose him.  The president of the United States is running ads referring to 52% of the American people as a "mob."  This is beneath the dignity of the White House.  It's typical of the Democrat Party, but it is beneath the dignity of the Oval Office.

Henry Waxman was on the Daily Show last night.  They had this exchange, Jon Stewart and Henry Waxman, about town hall protesters -- and, of course, me.  

STEWART: You have the overwhelming majority now. Can't you get something that is condensed a little bit more clearly and concisely so that you can sell it? Because without that you've got town halls where the people come and they shout and they are not saying anything other than, "Hey, we're -- I'm mad."

WAXMAN: That's not spontaneous. People show up in an organized way often sponsored by the Republican party or Rush Limbaugh or some other group.

STEWART: Right. In democracy, to be fair, they are allowed to, uhhh -- to do that.

WAXMAN: I am not trying to silence them.  

STEWART: No, I understand.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

WAXMAN: Just keep it in perspective.
RUSH:  "Just keep it in perspective." He's "not trying to silence them." That's exactly what they are trying to do! Intimidate you, call you a mob. They are trying to silence all this opposition.  You know, Jon Stewart makes more sense here than most of the State-Run Media.  The American people aren't buying what the Democrats are selling -- and, of course, the Democrats and the president of the United States blame you! They hold you in contempt while they throw their bones to the trial lawyers and the public sector union bosses. This morning on MSNBC, the host is talking to Democrat strategerist Keith Boykin about the town hall meeting protests and the host says, "Is this cheap propaganda?"

BOYKIN: It's being orchestrated by the Republican Party's organ like Fox News and -- and people like Rush Limbaugh who are out there putting this message out now.

RATIGAN: Do you know that or do you believe that?

BOYKIN: It's obvious!

RATIGAN: How is it obvious?

BOYKIN: They are putting out the message to these people, the birth conspiracies. These people coming together. It's a coalition of cranks who have basically created this.

RUSH: You know, I would... I'm going to issue a challenge here to all you Democrat strategists and you people at Democrat National Committee -- and I'm going to include in this challenge the hapless White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.  I want you to give us the name of one person who has been hired by a lobbyist working for an insurance company to show up at a town hall meeting.  I want you to produce evidence of one person who is at one of these meetings because I have sent them there.  It's obvious?  If it's so obvious, Mr. Boykin, that all of this is trumped up, then tell us and show us who's behind this.  Give us the names!  Tell us which insurance companies are putting this together and making it happen.  But remember this, Mr. Boykin: The community organizer who thinks it's the greatest experience he's ever had can't start bitching when communities organize.  
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RUSH:  I'm going to go back and play this ad again, the DNC ad bought and paid for, by the way, by public sector union bosses and their allies.  That's who's paying for this campaign, public sector union bosses and their allies. This is an ad sanctioned by President Obama, run by the Democrat National Committee attacking American citizens.  Listen to it again.  

(cheesy dramatic music)

AMERICAN CITIZENS: (chanting) Just say no! Just say no!  

DNC ANNOUNCER: The right-wing extremist Republican base is back. They lost the election. They lost on the Recovery Act, the budget and children's health care. They've lost the confidence of the American people after eight years of failed policies that ruined our economy and cost millions of jobs.


AMERICAN CITIZENS:  (chanting) Just say no! Just say no!

DNC ANNOUNCER: Now, desperate Republicans and their well-funded allies are organizing angry mobs -- just like they did during the election. Their goal? Destroy President Obama and stop the change Americans voted for overwhelmingly in November.

DEMINT: It will break him.

RUSH: I hope he fails!

DNC ANNOUNCER: They have no plan for moving our country forward, so they've called out the mob.

RUSH:  We sure as hell do have a plan for moving the country forward.  It's called stopping Obama, stopping Reid, stopping Pelosi, stopping the trial lawyers and stopping the public sector union bosses.  It's called stopping the Democrat Party.  It's called saving this country.  The same party that passed a phony stimulus bill giving ACORN community organizers billions of dollars to organize and protest and agitate, the same party is complaining when private citizens attend town hall meetings on their own, on their own dime and question what the government is wanting to do to their health care.  I'm telling you Blue Dog Democrats, beware.  Much of this campaign of lies by Obama and his cronies is aimed at convincing you that the people are not boiling over with contempt for what is being attempted here.  And if you allow yourselves to be convinced by this propaganda put out by your party and your president and Axelrod and Emanuel and all the rest, you will pay the ultimate political price.  I promise you, you will.  You have no idea what's simmering out across the heartlands of this country.  And it is rank pure opposition to what this president is attempting to do to this nation's economy and people's health care.

Let's go back in time, shall we, September 17, 2008, Elko, Nevada.  During a campaign event here is the community organizer-in-chief, Dr. Chicago himself.  

OBAMA:  I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors.  I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican.  I want you to argue with them and get in their face.   

RUSH:  Argue with them and get in their face from the unifier, from the man who is going to bring this country together.  We forget all of these things that he said during the campaign to largely union audiences.  And they have the nerve to call you and all of us a mob, an unruly mob after he is urging his own supporters to get in your face and argue with you.  Back in March when the target then was AIG, Obama said he didn't want to quell the angry mobs back then.  March 18th, an unidentified reporter:  "Mr. President, a new round of bonuses from these contracts are coming out for AIG.  What could you say to the American public to quell the anger, because people are angry about this new round that's coming out.  There's more bonuses.  It's said to be coming for AIG executives."  
OBAMA:  I don't want to quell anger.  I think people are right to be angry.  I'm angry.  What I want us to do, though, is channel our anger in a constructive way.  

RUSH:  Yeah, he wants you arguing with people, he wanted you protesting in the front yards of AIG executives.  He was out there saying to bank executives and these other people on Wall Street that he was the only one standing between them and the pitchforks.  This man is not who he claims to be.  He is not at all similar to the core of the American people and that is why he has to lie with virtually every statement that he makes about his health care plan or the stimulus or the state of the economy.  He has to lie.  He has to lie about his plans because the people of this country would reject him by a landslide if he were honest.  Wall Street Journal, June 14th, 2008: "Mobster wisdom tells us never to bring a knife to a gun fight. But what does political wisdom say about bringing a gun to a knife fight?  That’s exactly what Barack Obama said he would do to counter Republican attacks 'If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,' Obama said at a Philadelphia fundraiser Friday night. 'Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.'"  If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.  

He's calling you an unruly mob.  He has encouraged his union bosses and the trial lawyers to get in your face.  He has encouraged them to try to intimidate you.  He's trying to intimidate you.  If anybody on our side ever said, "You bring a gun, we're bringing a knife, you bring a gun, we're bringing a knife, two knives," anything like this at all, what would be done?  Now, ladies and gentlemen, let's just stay with the sound bites here because now your anger is manufactured by the insurance companies.  Here is yesterday's press conference briefing at the White House, Robert Gibbs.  Jake Tapper from ABC: "Is it the White House contention the anger that some members of Congress are experiencing at town hall meetings, especially over health care reform, is manufactured?"

GIBBS:  Some of it is, yes.  In fact, I think you've had groups today, Conservatives for Patients' Rights that have bragged about organizing and manufacturing that anger.  What you've seen is they have -- they've bragged about manufacturing to some degree that anger.  

RUSH:  No, no, no.  There's no manufactured anger, Mr. Gibbs.  The anger is legitimate and real and it is boiling over.  And you all know it because you are running ads trying to impugn the honor and character of American citizens who have the audacity to stand up, oppose and criticize this un-American agenda that you are trying to force down their throats and every other bodily orifice.  And more and more of them have had it.  So Mr. Gibbs, give me the name of the insurance company and give me the name of the insurance company lobbyist that's out there sending people to these meetings.  If it's all manufactured, if it's not real -- and, by the way, you guys know all about that because your guy, Axlerod, invented this whole thing.  It's called Astroturfing.  It's called manufacturing fake grassroots.  Your guy has a business that does it.  You just don't like it when something that looks like your trick is played against you.  However, this is no trick.  There's nothing manufactured.  These people are not making up their anger.  They are genuinely ticked off.  Steny Hoyer was heckled at an event in New York, Utica to be exact.  He was there with Michael Arcuri, Democrat representative.  They held a press conference to talk about funding for high speed rail and during the press conference Hoyer and a protester, Don Jeror, have this exchange about health care reform.  

JEROR:  Why would you guys try to stuff a health care bill down our throat in three to four weeks when the president took six months to pick what he wanted for a dog for his kids?  

HOYER:  The bill that we passed was a recovery to bring us out of this deep recession, brink of depression.  For the last three months housing starts are up in America.  

JEROR:  You're lying to me!  I don't have sophisticated language.  I recognize a liar when I see one.  

RUSH:  This is a Democrat meeting.  This is a Democrat meeting.  And it's supposed to be some giant hooray for light-rail or high speed rail and instead it descends into a discussion of the economy and health care.  These people in Washington, they have no clue.  They have no clue.  The Democrats in Washington have no clue.  Well, you know they can read the polls.  They do have a clue.  They don't care is the bottom line.  They are going to force this on you regardless. 

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RUSH:  A community organizer cannot start bitching when communities organize, even if they are organizing against him.
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RUSH: Steve Driehaus (I hope I'm pronouncing his name right) he's a member of congress in Cincinnati, a Democrat held a town hall to talk about health reform on Monday and during the Q&A, an unidentified woman shouted. This is very hard to hear.  It's very bad audio.  I'll tell you what she says after I play this.  

CITIZEN: There's plenty of competition out there. We don't need government in our face.

CROWD: (wild cheering)

RUSH:  We cut the cheers down to save some time.  What she said is, "There's plenty of competition out there.  We don't need government in our face," and the audience erupted in supportive cheers.  

Here is the talking point that's been spread to all of the State-Run Media and elected officials.  This is a montage.  

MATTHEWS:  Well-dressed, middle-class people in pinks and limes, the Brooks Brothers brigade.  

BOXER:  The last time I saw well-dressed people doing this was when Al Gore asked me to go down to Florida when they were recounting the ballots and I was confronted with the same type of people.  

LLOYD DOGGETT: Like that crowd of Republican staffers that showed up for Bush against Gore down in Florida.  It's the same kind of approach.  

RACHEL MADDOW:  It's the Brooks Brothers riot from Florida 2000.  

RUSH:  So, once again a talking point has gone out and a State-Run Media dutifully reports it and repeats it along with all of the others in the elected ranks of the Democrat Party.  So, you're not real, folks.  You are too well dressed.  You are wearing a uniform.  You look too much like Brooks Brothers, when the truth is most of you are in economic circumstances such that you couldn't afford to go in the door at Brooks Brothers.  

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RUSH:  So it's the Brooks Brothers brigade, eh?  I haven't seen the photos.  I haven't seen the pictures of the Green Bay "mob" that showed up.  But I'll bet you that less than 15% of them were wearing Brooks Brothers.  And I also know this: I've been to Green Bay, I know people in Green Bay, and I know that "lime green" and "pink" are not popular colors in the Northwoods.  These people are blowing it big time.  The Democrat Party and President Obama are unable to tell the truth and now rip American citizens as a mob?  
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Read the Background Material...
You Tube: DNC Ad: The Mob
Heritage Foundation: The People Spreading 'Disinformation' About Obamacare
Wall Street Journal: Obama: 'If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun'
Breitbart: Democrat Tea Party 'Patriot' Confronts House Majority Leader During News Conference
RedState: White House Actions Might Be Unlawful. Barack Obama's Very Own Domestic Spying Program
NewsBusters: Matthews Joins Barbara Boxer in Dismissing 'Brooks Brothers' Protesters
Hot Air: Boxer: Protesters Too Well Dressed to be Sincere
American Thinker: The Obama Resistance Grows
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