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RUSH: I tell you, folks, it\u2019s a sick world out there. It is just an absolutely depraved and sick world out there. It\u2019s so depraved and sick I don\u2019t know if I can tell you about this. Well, here. No, I\u2019ll save it. I\u2019ll save it. I\u2019m not gonna start the show with this. It would be better to start the show with the soap opera. Can you believe it? This is a great illustration of how the soap opera script works. Great illustration of how the behavior of the Drive-Bys, who are the script writers for the daily soap opera that is supposedly the news, happens. And it all involves Obama shaking the hand of the dictator, Raul Castro, at the memorial for Nelson Mandela.<\/p>\n

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You know, there\u2019s bigger story, I think, than this. ‘Cause I, frankly, and I\u2019m just guessing here, but I don\u2019t think Obama really knew who this guy was. I mean, he knows who Raul Castro is, but if you know other things about the way Obama\u2019s been behaving, he\u2019s been taking selfies. We have pictures of Obama taking selfies with himself and David Cameron and Queen somebody from Switzerland or whatever, with Michelle Obama looking on. Well, no, she\u2019s not looking on. She looks irritated. Here. Let me turn the Dittocam off. I\u2019ll just show you. Let me zoom in on this. You\u2019ll probably see this on the website later. Let me zoom in a little tighter here, folks. Hang on just a second. We don\u2019t have a union here so I do everything myself, which is fine. Let\u2019s see, get close enough here, yeah, that\u2019ll do for private sector work. Okay, Dittocam coming on. There we go.<\/p>\n

Now, while this picture\u2019s taken, somebody\u2019s speaking at the Nelson Mandela memorial. That is Obama taking a picture of himself with his BlackBerry. That\u2019s David Cameron, the prime minister of Great Britain, and the blonde in the middle being squeezed, actually being gazed at, objectifyingly if you ask me, is — I don\u2019t know, Switzerland, Netherlands, someplace where the leaders are blonde. And look at Michelle. She\u2019s not paying any attention to this. She\u2019s just gazing forward at whoever is speaking. Can you believe it, Obama taking selfies at the Nelson Mandela memorial. Okay, I\u2019m gonna turn off the Dittocam and change the zoom on it so I can now turn it back on for the rest of you to watch me. All right. Dittocam back on. But the Drive-Bys, folks, are literally having orgasms over Obama shaking the hand of Raul Castro.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bite to illustrate. This is not news. They want it to be news. They\u2019d do anything to distract everybody from Obamacare. And don\u2019t worry. We have not fallen prey to that. In fact, I had it in the Stack yesterday<\/a> and I didn\u2019t have a chance to get to it, but I\u2019m going to today. Colin Powell, the titular head of the Republican Party, has come out for socialized medicine. Nationalized, socialized, some people call it single payer.<\/p>\n

Okay. First up is Chris Cuomo. This is on CNN\u2019s New Day today. They\u2019re covering the Nelson Mandela memorial service and they\u2019re following Obama as he climbed on the stage before he spoke. There are other dignitaries, dictators, communists, and others up there on the platform. Obama greets them all. And as he goes down the rope line, well it\u2019s not a rope line, but as he\u2019s greeting everybody he runs into Raul Castro, and he shakes his hand. He shakes his hand like he shook everybody else\u2019s hand. Now, there are a lot of people trying to say, “A-ha, a-ha, see? It just proves that President Obama is a socialist.”<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t need him shaking Raul Castro\u2019s hand to know this. We don\u2019t need him acting friendly with Raul Castro to know who Obama is. If this was year one, this would be a big deal. If this was the first year that Obama\u2019s doing this, big deal. But this is year five. We\u2019re almost starting year six. We already know this. We already know he admires these guys, envies their power. He\u2019s working on that. But you gotta hear the Drive-Bys. You just have to hear the audio, verbal orgasms here.<\/p>\n

CHRIS CUOMO: Were walking around and talking to security officials.<\/p>\n

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Castro! He\u2019s shaking hands with Raul Castro.<\/p>\n

CHRIS CUOMO: As Christiane points out, President Obama just shook hands with Raul Castro from Cuba. What does that say as a gesture?<\/p>\n

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: It says that this a moment of reconciliation for Mandela. And President Obama is doing the diplomatic thing. He\u2019s not just going to walk by and ignore these people who are there. And they\u2019re all in a line. He\u2019s kissing now the U.N. Secretary General, President Zuma.<\/p>\n

ROBYN CURNOW: This is a man, and it is so true, who brought people together in life and he continues to bring people together in death.<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Do you hear this? That was Christiane Amanpour. It was Chris Cuomo and the CNN International correspondent Robyn Curnow, and they are literally beside themselves with thrills and excitement. Nelson Mandela bringing fellow communists together. Even in death Mandela is uniting the communist world. Well, what? I mean, Raul Castro is a communist. My God, there\u2019s an American citizen that\u2019s been in a Cuban dungeon for four months now. This is one reason why people are upset. I mean, there are literally Americans in prison in Cuba, and Obama\u2019s got no business shaking the guy\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n

Now, some of you might disagree with me when I say that I don\u2019t think Obama really knew who he was. What I do think is that President Obama\u2019s not sending a message to anybody here. He\u2019s too focused on himself. When he goes through the rope line, he\u2019s asking himself what these people think of him. He\u2019s not impressed with any of these people. He doesn\u2019t get a thrill shaking Raul Castro\u2019s hand. He\u2019s hoping Castro gets a thrill shaking his hand. You gotta remember that Obama\u2019s a narcissist. He does not look at himself as somebody who\u2019s gotta impress these guys. He is thinking they envy him. He is thinking they all want to be who he is. He is thinking that they are in servitude to him.<\/p>\n

So he runs into Raul Castro, Raul Castro\u2019s what? A dumpy little guy that runs a cheap little island communist nation. Obama\u2019s not interested in that. He\u2019s got the whole US to transform. I think people are looking at this the wrong way. But the media is just excited. I heard a commentator on Fox, Jehmu somebody. (imitation) “Well, you know, Bill, our two great countries are separated by 90 miles of water. That\u2019s it, Bill. And there are families who have been disunited because of the 90 miles of water. And what this handshake represents, Bill, is perhaps the first steps in these families being united across the 90 miles of water.”<\/p>\n

I mean, the media is beside themselves with thrills and excitement. Can you imagine if Fidel had been there, folks? If it had been Fidel and not Raul, I mean, I don\u2019t know that these people would have been able to keep their clothes on in the media. I mean, it would have been — I wish it would have been Fidel. But it was just his stand-in. It was just Raul.<\/p>\n

Okay, so that\u2019s Chris Cuomo. Were you able to understand what Christiane Amanpour was saying? She was literally… I haven\u2019t heard her this excited since we lost the Iraq war. In her mind. I gotta listen to this again, this “a moment of reconciliation for Mandela and Obama,” the diplomatic thing. I\u2019ll just put this out there again, and then we\u2019ll follow it up with John King, who\u2019s warning everybody that there are gonna be people like me try to make a big deal about this. Hang on.<\/p>\n

(replaying of sound bite)<\/p>\n

Christiane Amanpour said, “It says that this is a moment of reconciliation for Mandela.” How in the hell is that possible? Mandela is dead. Obama is shaking the hand of Raul Castro. How is that a moment of reconciliation for Mandela? Oh, Mandela, in death, is uniting Obama and a fellow communist in public, and this is progress? You know, it\u2019s one thing for Obama to do this, and I\u2019m not making excuses for him. I just think when Obama gets up there on the stage and starts shaking everybody\u2019s hand…<\/p>\n

Remember, folks, he\u2019s taking selfies. He\u2019s thinking about himself. He\u2019s looking at this old guy Raul, and he\u2019s not thinking, “Hmm. Should I shake this guy\u2019s hand or not? How\u2019s it gonna look?” He\u2019s looking at it as, “Everybody wants to shake my hand. Everybody wants to be me. I\u2019m the big dog here. They\u2019re the ones that are gonna get all the accolades back in their homes, having met me.” It is insulting, yeah, but I don\u2019t think that…<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t care, folks. This is his stage. I mean, this whole week is about Barack Obama. You understand, that\u2019s really what this all means. That\u2019s what this soap opera script is. It\u2019s not the death of Mandela anymore. This is about Barack Obama assuming Mandela\u2019s place as a great whatever on the world stage. That\u2019s what the soap opera is. The whole week here is about Obama. It\u2019s not about Mandela anymore. Here\u2019s John King. Now, this is also same show, CNN, John King anticipating that some jerk out there might dare criticize Obama for doing this.<\/p>\n

Can you believe it? This is a great illustration of how the soap opera script works. Great illustration of how the Drive-Bys, who are the script writers for the daily soap opera that is supposedly the news, happens. And it all involves Obama shaking the hand of the dictator, Raul Castro, at the memorial for Nelson Mandela. KING: This is a moment of reconciliation, is a moment of tribute to a great man, and it was not a time to make a political statement. So you shake hands out of the respect for the moment and move on. Will President Obama get some criticism for that brief handshake and that very, very brief greeting or conversation? Yes, he will. It comes with the territory. Somebody will decide that was a horrible thing. I think the president was showing respect for the moment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, you see, if you were on the verge of being a jerk and being critical of Obama, you better not. You better pull it back right now because he was just caught up in the moment, had to be polite. It doesn\u2019t mean anything. “It comes with the territory. … [T]he president was showing respect for the moment.” No, he wasn\u2019t. He was receiving, in his mind, the accolades of the moment.<\/p>\n

Now, we go back to Christiane Amanpour. Some gospel singer was bringing down the House. That\u2019s the next thing that happened here at the memorial. And while the gospel singer was bringing down the house, Christiane Amanpour comes back to describe the moment when Obama shook Raul Castro\u2019s hand as joy and described the whole service as just a warm-up act for Obama. Listen.<\/p>\n

\"\"CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: President Obama couldn\u2019t be getting a better warm-up act.<\/p>\n

CHRIS CUOMO: I know!<\/p>\n

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Look at this! The whole crowd!<\/p>\n

CHRIS CUOMO: American gospel singer Kirk Franklin, who just brought this stadium to its feet, the South African crowd dominantly was just going crazy to the —<\/p>\n

ROBYN CURNOW: Wonderful.<\/p>\n

CHRIS CUOMO: — stylings of Kirk Franklin.<\/p>\n

ROBYN CURNOW: Just a sense like we\u2019re in the middle of a pop concert, half a party, but it\u2019s a funeral. It\u2019s a memorial service.<\/p>\n

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: This truly is what today\u2019s about! This moment really captured the joy!<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, this is The Funeral Crashers is what it is. This is a party. These people are taking the occasion of Mandela\u2019s death… It\u2019s the Wellstone Memorial. They\u2019re taking the occasion of the death of Mandela and they\u2019re using it, essentially discarding him to change and turn the focus all on to them. If you doubt me, you heard it. The first words out of Christiane Amanpour\u2019s mouth: “And President Obama couldn\u2019t be getting a better warm-up act.”<\/p>\n

We\u2019re talking about a memorial service for a great man, in these people\u2019s minds, a great man who has just died and needs to be memorialized, and what is it? It\u2019s a warm-up act for Obama. And Raul Castro, the unwitting dupe, was part of the warm-up act. It is, folks. It\u2019s the Funeral Crashers. It\u2019s the Wellstone Memorial all over again<\/a>. But it\u2019s all about Barack Obama assuming the mantel of world leftist leadership. That is what this is. It is a second inauguration, if you will, for Obama now of the world.<\/p>\n

The torch has been passed.<\/p>\n

Whether Mandela knew it or not, the torch has been passed from Mandela to Obama, and the memorial service, and the words of the great international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, a warm-up act for Obama.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Folks, there is no doubt that I\u2019m right. Obama, it\u2019s not a big deal shaking Raul Castro\u2019s hand in any way, shape, manner, or form. I don\u2019t think he even recognized him. If he would have recognized him, if he would have known who Raul Castro was, he would have bowed like he always does to world leaders. He just shook the chump\u2019s hand and moved on. He didn\u2019t know who he was. So I wouldn\u2019t make any big deal about this. If he\u2019da bowed to him, well, then it\u2019d be a whole different matter.<\/p>\n

But he just shook the chump\u2019s hand and moved on. The blonde, by the way, in the selfie is the prime minister of Denmark. Her name is Helle Thorning-Schmid, and she is being objectifying-ly gazed upon in yet another selfie. Obama is got his hand on her shoulder. David Cameron is talking to her, Obama\u2019s got his hand on her left shoulder, and Michelle is looking at that with a blank expression on her face.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s who the blonde was. Alan Gross is the name of American that Castro has been holding in prison since 2009. He\u2019s little white guy, so it doesn\u2019t matter to anybody, but that\u2019s who he is. He\u2019s an American who has been in the Castro dungeon for four years, and there are people that are literally ticked off by the handshake because of that.<\/p>\n

But again, folks, I don\u2019t think Obama knew. Raul Castro, I mean, he\u2019s a dumpy little chumpy-looking guy. Obama, you gotta understand, he\u2019s a narcissist. It\u2019s all about him. It\u2019s a warm-up act. The death of Mandela a warm-up act, as proclaimed by Christiane Amanpour. Obama\u2019s not up there thinking, “Oh, gee, should I shake hands with this communist pig or not?”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not even on his mind. It doesn\u2019t even cross his mind. If he\u2019da bowed, that\u2019d be a whole different thing. Listen to Brian Williams, NBC News, on the Today show today. He\u2019s talking with Savannah Guthrie. She said, “This was an unprecedented meeting of world leaders. For a moment, it made for strange bedfellows, Brian. We saw President Obama shake the hand of Cuba\u2019s leader, Raul Castro. Tell us us what the mood has been like in the ceremony.”<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: Let\u2019s not be overly nice about this. That dignitary section has some criminals, some thieves, some kings, some presidents, a lot of different types of people, and there has been a lot written and said about where to seat them. The president\u2019s handshake with Raul Castro was one of the better moments. The crowd\u2019s reception for Robert Mugabe was interesting. So, again, what would Nelson Mandela say to all of them and say to all of this? Most of the speakers have urged the crowd, “Go on, behave like him. Live like him. Be infused with his spirit going forward, and maybe we could get someplace.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t you love this? (summarized) “Well, you know, let\u2019s not be overly nice about this. That dignitary section has actually got some criminals, got some thieves, some kings, some presidents.” Now, in which category there they talking about Clinton? (laughing)<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just want to play the opening little bit here of sound bite number three because it\u2019s been since the first hour that I aired it, and I just want to prove to you that Christiane Amanpour did refer to all of this, this Mandela memorial, as the opening act for Obama. CNN today on their early morning show called New Day where Chris Cuomo is talking to Christiane Amanpour.<\/p>\n

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: President Obama couldn\u2019t be getting a better warm-up act.<\/p>\n

CHRIS CUOMO: I know!<\/p>\n

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Look at this! The whole crowd!<\/p>\n

CHRIS CUOMO: American gospel singer Kirk Franklin, who just brought this stadium to its feet.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Okay, that\u2019s it, you heard her say it. “And President Obama couldn\u2019t be getting a better warm-up act.” And now we pick up where we left off. George Stephanopoulos. Everything\u2019s about Obama. This is Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America talking to the chief foreign correspondent, complete with trench coat, Terry Moran. It\u2019s the Peter Jennings memorial trench coat. Every foreign correspondent at ABC wears one. And they\u2019re having a discussion about Obama\u2019s remarks at the opening act.<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: The crowd really embracing President Obama when they saw him come up on the screen.<\/p>\n

MORAN: No question, his picture and then when he stepped forward to the podium, the crowd just lit up, and as he spoke, I looked around, this crowd was in rapt attention to the president\u2019s words.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You see? It\u2019s about Obama. The death of Mandela, about Obama. The Mandela memorial service, about Obama. The crowd is not even there to memorialize Mandela. It\u2019s all about Obama. And Stephanopoulos: wow, crowd really embracing President Obama.<\/p>\n

Up next, CBS This Morning, managing editor at TIME Magazine, former Richard Stengel. He just changed places. A Democrat hack, used to be at TIME, now at CBS. He\u2019s talking with Charlie Rose and Norah O\u2019Donnell, who says, “The president used his speech to say, we must all ask how well have I applied his lessons in my own life. That that matter of reflection about Mandela\u2019s life to our own differences and circumstances??”<\/p>\n

What do you make of that? The question makes no sense. Not the point. Here\u2019s what the panelists said.<\/p>\n

RICHARD STENGEL: He\u2019s talking about the inner Mandela in all of us. I mean, if you can somehow imbue yourself with these values, I mean, it will make us a better person and — but he also was very smart, I think, to notice that, look, there\u2019s still political prisoners in the world now. This, you know, Mandela\u2019s long walk is not over yet.<\/p>\n

GAYLE KING: Yes.<\/p>\n

CHARLIE ROSE: Exactly. The struggle continues.<\/p>\n

RICHARD STENGEL: The struggle continues, that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sorry, but Mandela\u2019s long walk is over. Well, this is the kind of symbolism these people engage in. Do you think that\u2019s an outrageous thing to say? Is that a disrespectful thing to say? Here these people, this is Richard Stengel, “Well, you know, Mandela\u2019s long walk is not yet over.” Gayle King: “Yes” Charlie Rose: “Exactly. The struggle continues.” Let no man say that Charlie Rose is not down for the struggle, because Charlie clearly is. And then Stengel comes back, “Yeah, the –” And Gayle says, “What?” Stengel says, “The struggle, yeah, that\u2019s right, the struggle, yeah.” Bill Keller, the former editor at the New York Times, was also at CBS This Morning talking about Mandela\u2019s memorial service, the opening act for Obama, and he and Norah O\u2019Donnell have this little chitchat.<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: As they mentioned President Zuma, there was booing in that stadium, as the current state of South Africa, while much better because of Mandela, there is still extreme poverty, has one of the worst income inequality rates in the world.<\/p>\n

KELLER: Right, 40% of South Africans — and they\u2019re mostly black — live on less than $2 a day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What? Uh, what? Wait. What? Uh, play that again. I\u2019m not sure I heard this right. Yeah, I\u2019m confused here. Play that again.<\/p>\n

\"\"O\u2019DONNELL: As they mentioned President Zuma, there was booing in that stadium, as the current state of South Africa, while much better because of Mandela, there is still extreme poverty, has one of the worst income inequality rates in the world.<\/p>\n

KELLER: Right, 40% of South Africans — and they\u2019re mostly black — live on less than $2 a day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. What? Really? I thought that was all fixed? I thought there wasn\u2019t any income inequality. Oh, gee. It wasn\u2019t made that much better when they got rid of apartheid? And Zuma, the crime rate exploded? The crime rate exploded? Really? Oh, man. I don\u2019t know if I can go on. Seriously? This is all true? Forty percent of South Africans, mostly black, live on less than $2 a day, after apartheid? Income inequality, extreme poverty, well, they just must not — that\u2019s gotta be what it is. They just haven\u2019t got communism up and running yet, I guess. (interruption) Well, no, no, no, what do you mean the right people haven\u2019t run it? Mandela was there, chief Zuma? What do you mean the right people haven\u2019t run it? You know what it is, they just haven\u2019t gotten enough funding yet. That has to be what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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