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RUSH: Here\u2019s Linda in the high mountains of wherever. Where? The high mountains where, in New Mexico by any chance?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, New Mexico.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi. Well, great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Oh, I\u2019m so nervous. Rush, over the past few years, the charge of racism if you were against the policies of the president, has been so odious and so hurtful to people that I believe this dramatic drop in his approval ratings simply reflects the fact that people are now willing to say their honest feelings about disapproval regarding the president. I think people are finally getting the courage and the confidence to state the truth of their feelings.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me see, Linda, if I understand exactly what you\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re saying that this approval number of Obama does not reflect a sudden change of heart. You think people have always, pretty much, or at least for years, have had this unfavorable view of Obama; it\u2019s only now they feel safe in saying so?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. I believe that\u2019s exact truth. It wasn\u2019t that long ago when I got awe phone call from the pollster, and I hung up, because I didn\u2019t want even to say to the pollster that I was against Obama\u2019s policies or against what he was doing because that charge of racism is just so hurtful. We\u2019ve been hammered with it for years now, and just exactly like we said, I believe that these feelings have been here all the time. But now that the late-night comedians are starting to make jokes about Obamacare, the fact that some of the Democrats are distancing themselves from him, I think it\u2019s making people like Margaret and some of these other folks have the courage to say their honest feelings.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s interesting. However, if I may remind you, Margaret gave me the credit.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: For changing her mind, not the late night shows.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I give you full credit, too, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. I\u2019m just being me, being braggadociosly fun. I know what you mean. So you think that once the pop culture people that they like start making fun of Obama, then it\u2019s okay to?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is interesting. So you really don\u2019t think this is anything new. You don\u2019t think it\u2019s really tied to the failure of Obamacare per se, although it\u2019s a factor. You think people have been negative toward Obama for a long time but were just afraid to say so?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think that\u2019s true, but I do think the colossal and huge and well publicized debacle of the health care is tied in. You know, the very fact that we\u2019re now hearing negative things, hearing suspicions people coming right out and saying, “Perhaps Obama lied,” I think that does play into it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, you could be on to something. This could well be a really great point. I mean, essentially what you\u2019re saying is that the Wilder Effect has worn off.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: But I\u2019m curious — seriously, now — did the pollster know he was talking to you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. I think it was a random call. All they did was identify themselves as pollsters.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So why were you afraid of what somebody you don\u2019t know would think of you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know, isn\u2019t that strange? You know, afterwards I thought, “Why didn\u2019t I have the courage?” But the truth of the matter is, ever since Obama was nominated, I have been very closed lipped. I haven\u2019t told friends. I haven\u2019t told people that I know. I\u2019ve been very careful not to ever talk politics because we\u2019re so hammered with this idea that we\u2019re racists if we\u2019re against his policies.<\/p>\n

Like I say, it\u2019s just odious; it\u2019s very hurtful. I don\u2019t think people realize what a strong charge that really is, how much it affects people who want to consider themselves good, decent Americans that are not racists. I don\u2019t think people realize just how strong a charge that is, and I think it\u2019s kept a lot of people — it can\u2019t be just myself. It kept a lot of people very closed mouth about their real feelings, and now it\u2019s gonna start to show up.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Well, further buttressing your point is that if you go poll by poll and issue by issue, you find that most of Obama\u2019s policies have been unpopular, some wildly unpopular. Obamacare has never been supported by a majority of people. The stimulus wasn\u2019t. Policy by policy, where people had a chance to weigh in on that and not Obama, they were free to speak up. “What do you think of nationalized medicine?” I hate it. “What do you think of the government going into further debt to create jobs?” I hate it. But if Obama\u2019s put in the question, your theory is people will clam up or say they don\u2019t have a problem with it \u2019cause they don\u2019t want to get anywhere near being lectured, ridiculed, or categorized as anti-black?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Exactly. I really do believe that is the case.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think you might be on to something. There\u2019s no question that, especially the charge of racism, if that one sticks to you, that\u2019s hard to erase, it doesn\u2019t leave, but I think you\u2019re also right about something else. Most people don\u2019t like controversy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: True.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They don\u2019t like being part of it. They might like watching it, witnessing it and being entertained by it, but you don\u2019t want to be in it. You don\u2019t want to be thought of as controversial. You don\u2019t want to be thought of as divisive or argumentative, so the best thing to do is shut up. I think you\u2019re right. I think you\u2019re describing actually quite a few people, a lot of people in that regard. People have their inner censors. They censor themselves privately based on external stimuli. It\u2019s a self-protection type of behavior. <\/p>\n

But now, for some reason, it has become okay, it has become socially acceptable to say that you don\u2019t support Obama, that you disapprove of Obama. And I think if Linda here is right, this just further explains why they are terrified in the Democrat Party and on the left. ‘Cause, remember, everything they do, every survival mechanism they have is rooted in illusion, and once they lose that, you know, the Wizard of Oz. Once the curtain goes up and they\u2019re exposed for who they really are, that\u2019s trouble city, and that is right where they are. Linda, great call, thank you much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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