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RUSH: I want to take you back to me on this program, March 24th, 2008<\/a>. This was during the presidential campaign year. Obama had not yet won the Democratic presidential nomination. This was during Operation Chaos, where this program was doing everything it could to keep Hillary Clinton\u2019s hopes alive and to keep the Democrat primary race interesting to the audience of this program. Obama was then a senator, a United States senator from Illinois. I proffered an opinion for you, the audience of this program.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: He represents the same damn stuff as Jesse Jackson. There\u2019s no difference. I\u2019m convinced of it now: There\u2019s no difference in Obama and Al Sharpton; there\u2019s no difference in Obama and Jesse Jackson. It\u2019s just Obama had a much better mask than those guys. Those guys were argumentative and challenging, and Obama was pleasing and contrite and so forth.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So that\u2019s 2008, just to set up what comes next, that Obama and Jackson and Sharpton have the same objective, same mind-set, same cultural references, same views of America. I believed it then, and I know it now. So Friday afternoon in Washington, the daily press briefing, Obama shows up — without a teleprompter, by the way, and the Drive-Bys which you\u2019ll hear in a moment were ecstatic. The Drive-Bys were beside themselves with happiness and joy and glee because Obama came out and actually sounded coherent without a prompter. There\u2019s a reason for that, by the way. Here\u2019s the first of two sound bites we have from the president…<\/p>\n

OBAMA: When Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. There are very few African-American men in this country who haven\u2019t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping at a department store. That includes me. There are very few African-American men who haven\u2019t had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me, at least before I was a senator.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So that happened on Friday afternoon when I was in a sauna, called a golf course, in Connecticut, and I had no idea it had taken place. So Friday night as part of this weekend tournament festival, there is a heavy hors d\u2019oeuvres and cocktail party at the club. I showed up with my hosts, and started making the rounds and talking to people, and somebody in a group… It was a very famous lawyer. I will not tell you who because I always assure people that what they say to me, unless they say otherwise, is confidential. <\/p>\n

But you\u2019d know the name of this lawyer. I don\u2019t know who the woman was. It might have been his wife, might have been his girlfriend, but, anyway, he told me what Obama had said, and I\u2019m looking at him and my mouth is wide open in disbelief, and I say, “He said what?” And then it was repeated for me, and then a woman… This is very interesting — to me, anyway, as one who studies life or lives life by observing it.<\/p>\n

The woman said, “Yeah, and, you know, he had a point. It could have been Obama 34 years ago.” Folks, I came close to losing it. I realized I was a guest, and I dialed it back somewhat. I said, “Yeah, but it didn\u2019t.” What is all of this could\u2019ve, would\u2019ve, might\u2019ve, it didn\u2019t happen to him. What happened to Trayvon Martin did not happen to him, probably because everyone did what Trayvon Martin did. It didn\u2019t happen to Obama.<\/p>\n

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This is a blatant attempt. It\u2019s exactly what Dr. Shelby Steele is talking about. Why are these people so invested in Trayvon Martin? Here\u2019s the president talking about how this could have been him 34 years ago. It could be him tonight if he\u2019s in Chicago. If he\u2019s a kid in Chicago today, it could have been him. What is this “Trayvon Martin could have been me 34 years ago”? It is countless black kids today, except the perps are not George Zimmerman. <\/p>\n

So why this investment in Trayvon Martin? <\/p>\n

Dr. Steele has it exactly right. It is to perpetuate the myth within the black community that all blacks remain helpless victims of white supremacy, white racism — when George Zimmerman isn\u2019t a Caucasian to begin with, and there was no white racism involved here. If anything (and Rachel Jeantel let the cat out of the bag), this was homophobia. Trayvon Martin… You notice people still haven\u2019t gone there? <\/p>\n

You notice that that aspect of what she told Piers Morgan still has not been picked up? At least I haven\u2019t seen it. Now, this coulda happened over the weekend and I didn\u2019t see it, but Trayvon thought that he was being pursued by a gay predator and took actions to stop that right there, here and now. That\u2019s why I played the clip for you of me from 2008 saying that Obama is no different than Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, and with this comment… Making a point to go to the White House pressroom, pointing out it could have been him 35 years ago?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. That\u2019s the kind of… I just think that\u2019s utterly irresponsible. It is certainly not healing. It\u2019s not even emotionally honest. But it is exactly who I\u2019ve always thought Obama is.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

We start Wichita. This is Tom. Thank you for waiting, sir. As always, great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good morning.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You stole some of my thunder this morning. I was going to talk about how he walked to the podium without a teleprompter and showed us his true feelings again and who he represents.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean Obama on Friday?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He had everything to say about Trayvon but he had nothing to say to his parents, to George Zimmerman, or George Zimmerman\u2019s family or anybody else. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it could have been him 35 years ago, or some such bunk.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The problem is it wasn\u2019t him 35 years ago. It didn\u2019t happen to him 35 years ago.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where was he 35 years ago? In Burma?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Indonesia?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He was in Hawaii with his grandparents having a very good time. So that was my main point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I tell you what. I didn\u2019t mean to steal your venom. I usually call it “thunder,” but if you want to characterize it as (chuckles) venom, go ahead.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Boy, he was stirred up. I mean, he stomped in there and it\u2019s like, you know, when he was speaking very candidly with Joe the Plumber, the same thing came out. His true colors come out. “I\u2019m with you groups, you elite groups. I\u2019m a member of you guys and everything else can just fly it.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go, Mike, to audio sound bite number six, a media montage. I spoke of it earlier how excited the media was over this.<\/p>\n

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WOLF BLITZER: It wasn\u2019t an Oval Office address looking into the camera, reading from the teleprompter.<\/p>\n

GLORIA BORGER: …not using a teleprompter like we very often see this president.<\/p>\n

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: (b-roll noise) No teleprompter, few notes.<\/p>\n

BROOKE BALDWIN: Not using a teleprompter!<\/p>\n

LUKE RUSSERT: There was not a teleprompter!<\/p>\n

MICHAEL SMERCONISH: There was no teleprompter!<\/p>\n

SUSAN HENDRICKS: Without a teleprompter, by the way.<\/p>\n

JONATHAN CAPEHART: Unscripted, no teleprompter.<\/p>\n

WENDELL GOLER: (outdoor noise) He spoke without notes or a teleprompter.<\/p>\n

ATHENA JONES: (outdoor noise) Very few notes. No teleprompter.<\/p>\n

KRISTEN WELKER: (b-roll noise) It was extemporaneous. No teleprompter.<\/p>\n

MARK SHIELDS: He did it without a teleprompter!<\/p>\n

ERIN BURNETT: He did so in a 17-minute speech, and he did it without a teleprompter!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow! Wow! They are shocked! Five-and-a-half years into his presidency, Obama gave his first speech without a teleprompter. They were so impressed, and we all know why. See, you didn\u2019t need the prompter for this because he was gonna be entirely totally open. Every other speech is scripted so that Obama doesn\u2019t reveal who he really is. That\u2019s the reason for the prompter is to keep the mask and camouflage on. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go back audio sound bites here. <\/p>\n

This is Tavis Smiley. Tavis Smiley was on Meet the Depressed on Sunday during the roundtable. They were having a discussion about Obama\u2019s remarks about the Trayvon Martin case, and David Gregory said, “Tavis Smiley, you were critical of the president. You said on Twitter his comments were ‘as weak as presweetened Kool-Aid.\u2019 He took too long to show up and express outrage.”<\/p>\n

SMILEY: This town has been spinning a story that\u2019s not altogether true. He did not walk to the podium for an impromptu address to the nation. He was pushed to that podium. A week of protest outside the White House, pressure building on him inside the White House pushed him to that podium. The bottom line is this is not Libya. This is America. On this issue you cannot “lead from behind.” What\u2019s lacking in this moment is moral leadership. The country is begging for it. They\u2019re craving it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I don\u2019t know. Maybe Tavis here is critiquing the media, and he may have a point there. They went into immediate spin mode after that speech and started talking about, “Well, this is the greatest speech Obama\u2019s ever given! Why, it was so good, he even went out there and gave it without the teleprompter! Oh, man. Oh, man. This guy is as good as we\u2019ve always thought.”<\/p>\n

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Tavis was saying (paraphrased), “Wait a minute. There was nothing genuine about this. This town\u2019s spinning a story about Obama\u2019s speech that it doesn\u2019t deserve.” Now here is David Brooks. David Brooks of the New York Times was also part of the roundtable on Meet the Depressed. David Brooks once had dinner with Obama. It was the first time. There have been many subsequent occasions, too, but this is the man who thought — because of the crease in Obama\u2019s slacks — that he was destined to be a great president. <\/p>\n

We did not make that up. David Brooks actually wrote that as well as said it. The crease in his slacks so impressed David Brooks… What do you have to be looking at to see that, by the way? When is the last time…? Dawn, when\u2019s the last time you noticed the crease in a guy\u2019s slacks? <\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

Brian, how about you? <\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

Snerdley? <\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

Me either. The crease in somebody\u2019s slacks? The last time I cared about the crease in anything was Major League Baseball uniforms when I was a kid and wanted my Little League uniform to look just like theirs. That\u2019s the last time I cared about creases. Brooks couldn\u2019t help but notice it. So on Meet the Press, David Gregory said, “David Maraniss, who wrote a biography of the president, writes this morning that once the president had reached the White House, quote, ‘It appeared that his intense interest in the subject of race diminished.<\/p>\n

“‘He would be judged by the content of his presidency not the color of his skin. Race seemingly became unimportant if not irrelevant to the first black president of the United States.'” You know, I think this is an interesting point. This is David Gregory quoting David Maraniss in a piece that ran Sunday, and I think this is how Obama had everybody fooled. Remember Obama was portrayed as this post-racial president, post-partisan president.<\/p>\n

Everything was gonna vanish!<\/p>\n

There wasn\u2019t gonna be any more racism. There wasn\u2019t gonna be any more partisanship. There wasn\u2019t gonna be any more bickering. There was gonna be total unity! I think tehse guys all swallowed that Kool-Aid, that “presweetened Kool-Aid.” They all swallowed it. They all drank it. They all had this image of what Obama was, and they made him fit into it — whatever the truth was — and they really believed that Obama didn\u2019t care about race once he became president.<\/p>\n

When anybody paying attention would know that\u2019s the primary thing that animated him. It\u2019s the primary thing that informed him, the primary source of his grievance. Obama is grievance politics, and the primary reason for that grievance is race. It\u2019s in everything that he\u2019s done. It\u2019s in every policy. It\u2019s in almost every speech. That and unions, victimization, minorities. They\u2019ve been screwed by the majority for time immemorial. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s all there. <\/p>\n

Now, these guys say Obama, when he became president, he forgot all about that. They wanted Brooks\u2019 opinion on that.<\/p>\n