{"id":15031,"date":"2012-07-26T17:52:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:52:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-26T17:52:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:52:16","slug":"sneak_peek_stanley_kurtz_s_new_book_examines_obama_s_war_on_suburbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/26\/sneak_peek_stanley_kurtz_s_new_book_examines_obama_s_war_on_suburbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneak Peek: Stanley Kurtz\u2019s New Book Examines Obama\u2019s War on Suburbia"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I got a note from Stanley Kurtz today. Stanley Kurtz has been one of the foremost researchers of “Barack Hussein Obama! Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!” and his radical ties throughout his whole life. He\u2019s got a new book coming out. The title of the book escapes me. More detail on it in the future, but let me just tell you basically what the premise is. The premise is that Obama and his band of radicals in the government despise suburbia.<\/p>\n

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They blame suburbia and suburbanites for what\u2019s happening in places like Detroit, for example, and other big cities that are in the midst of this decay. It is because people have moved out, and they have moved out to places where they can hang out together and be amongst people like them. (Do you see where this is going?) According to Mr. Kurtz, one of the fundamental aspects of dealing with Obama, one of the things to do in a campaign against Obama that could be very successful…<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all tied in, by the way, to the Thomas B. Edsall stuff that we pointed out<\/a> last November where they\u2019ve abandoned white working-class voters. Obama wants nothing to do with them. Now they\u2019re running ads aimed at those people trying to dispirit them and depress them and to tell \u2019em that Romney hates them and Romney\u2019s not gonna care. They want to isolate them and make \u2019em think that they have no representation and nobody\u2019s looking out for \u2019em. They want to just try to depress \u2019em, suppress their vote, dispirit them to the point that they don\u2019t show up.<\/p>\n

The bitter clingers, suburbanites.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s never gonna use this terminology. He\u2019s never gonna say that he\u2019s angry at the suburbanites. He\u2019s going to say it in such a way that he\u2019ll convey that impression to the people who he wants to understand it. And I think that there\u2019s something to it. I\u2019m just giving you the real sketch view. Kurtz has written a whole book about this that comes out soon. I think it\u2019s next week. More on it later. I\u2019ll print the story out and fill you in on some of the gaps here.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Stanley Kurtz\u2019s book is Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities. And Kurtz is a powerful, influential member of the media. Stanley sent me a note about his book, and he says the core revelations of his book focus on the fact that (and I\u2019d like to be interested in your thoughts on this, folks) although no one knows it, “Obama is closely working from the White House with some of the original Alinskyite community organizers who first trained him in Chicago and other places.”<\/p>\n

He is personally working with these Alinskyites.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a very ambitious plan to transform America by undercutting America\u2019s suburbs in order to redistribute suburban money back to the cities.” Now, many people think that in the upcoming election, suburbs are the key. And I\u2019ve seen some pollsters\/consultants who are saying that the suburbs are the key swing constituency of this election. And Kurtz claims that his book will illustrate it. “Almost nobody realizes it, but Obama has had a lifelong hostility to the suburbs. His community-organizing mentors hated suburbs.<\/p>\n

“They blame the suburbs for the problems of the cities. They believe that suburbanites were just greedy racists who didn\u2019t want to share their tax money with the urban poor.” Now, again, folks, forget the intellectual aspect of this, whether it\u2019s right or wrong. We\u2019re talking about the way Obama was mentored. And the point is, if Obama was raised and trained by a bunch of Alinskyites who want explain the evils-of-America — the inequities, the unfairness — by saying, “Look, Barack!<\/p>\n

“What happened was all these rich, white people fled the cities and they went out to suburbia. They\u2019re a bunch of racists and they don\u2019t like to hang around with people who live in the city. They don\u2019t like people like us, Barack!” Imagine how this happened. He\u2019s young, he\u2019s impressionable, and this is what he\u2019s being told. And these suburbs, that\u2019s where the bitter clingers are! That\u2019s suburbanites and people in rural areas. But you don\u2019t have bitter clingers in the inner city.<\/line><\/p>\n

All these people have left the cities. They\u2019ve taken their wealth, they\u2019ve taken their businesses, they\u2019ve taken their lives, and they\u2019ve gotten away from what they don\u2019t like in the cities and they\u2019ve left the cities in an absolute mess. Although it\u2019s not mentioned here in the little blurb, Detroit might be an example of this. And clearly there are other examples of big cities around the country where the inner city is decaying like crazy.<\/p>\n

And Obama has been led to believe and has been taught that, basically because of racism, white people have left the cities for suburbia. So Obama is hell-bent on penalizing them, and that\u2019s what his campaign is all about. They believe the suburbanites are just a bunch of greedy racists. They didn\u2019t want to share their money, their tax money with the urban poor. This is what Kurtz\u2019s book is about. He claims to establish all of this as fact. Obama adopted their worldview and supported this movement.<\/p>\n

Many of the leaders of this anti-suburban movement supported by Obama for years are now advising the regime on redistributive anti-suburban policies that few people know anything about. The bottom line, Kurtz believes that if the election is framed this way, that if enough people begin to look at this election through the prism of Obama and the radical left despising suburbia, that it will have a profound impact on the votes of people in suburbia. I take you back to the belief on the part of many that this election features suburbs as the key swing constituency of the election. In the swing states, for example, where are the swing votes? <\/p>\n

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And the theory is, the swing votes in the swing states are in suburbia. And if the suburban voters are made aware that they are the targets of this redistributive policy of the, “You didn\u2019t build that. You didn\u2019t do that on your own,” that when Obama says things like that, he has suburbanites on the mind, he has people who fled the cities. They are a problem. They have committed an act for which they need to pay. The cities are in trouble because of racism. White people didn\u2019t want to live among blacks in the inner city and fled. All the way back to the fifties when the suburbs began to pop up. This is not something new. This has been an Alinskyite belief for years. <\/p>\n

Now, you couple this with the fact, folks, the left, if you listen carefully, it isn\u2019t hard to believe the left has always had it in for the suburbs. The left believes that the suburbs is everything that\u2019s wrong with America. That\u2019s where all the cars are. That\u2019s where all the SUVs are. That\u2019s where all the malls are. You can\u2019t have mass transit in the suburbs. It\u2019s too spread out. You can\u2019t control everything. Cell phones, all this stuff, it\u2019s all part of suburbia. Environmentalists hate the suburbs because that\u2019s where all the environmental destruction takes place. That\u2019s where all the driving takes place. It\u2019s where all the gas stations are. It\u2019s where all the reasons people spend their money happen to be. <\/p>\n

To buttress what Kurtz is saying, there is a report just out from the Brookings Institute. Its title, “Demographic Reversal: Cities Thrive, Suburbs Sputter — Last year, for the first time in more than nine decades the major cities of the nation\u00c2\u2019s largest metropolitan areas grew faster than their combined suburbs. At least temporarily, this puts the brakes on a longstanding staple of American life — the pervasive suburbanization of its population — which began with widespread automobile use in the 1920s to the present day when more than half the US population lives in the suburbs. This reversal is identified in an analysis of newly released Census Bureau data for 2010-2011 and can be attributed to a number of forces.”<\/p>\n

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So Kurtz\u2019s book is going to make the case that the real Obama campaign, unstated, is an attack on suburban flight, suburban life and the people who are there. They are the real problem. They are these business owners. They are self-made. They are the people who have built factories. They are the people that use the roads and bridges and haven\u2019t paid anybody for it. They are the thieves. They are selfish, and they abandon people because of what they look like. The suburbs are the repository of evil. Well, not evil. The suburbs, that\u2019s where the real problem people in this country live, the people with whom we have to get even. And, by the way, the Brookings Institution, they call this move back to the cities the New American Dream. A bunch of libs at Brookings. So Kurtz could well be on to something here. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, here is a potential bottom line. Let\u2019s say that the upcoming campaign suggestion for Romney… well, not Romney. He\u2019s not going about it this way anyway. Instead of appealing to undecided voters on ideological grounds, as I have always thought would be a winning thing to do, and I still do, there may yet still be some people that don\u2019t want to look at Obama or Romney ideologically. They just don\u2019t want to go there. They\u2019re not that political. But they live in suburbia, so you go to them and say, “This guy, Barack Obama, is upset with you. He doesn\u2019t like the suburbs.” <\/p>\n

If a campaign can be based around the fact, is Obama\u2019s real purpose to punish suburbanites, is that who he\u2019s talking about when he says, “You didn\u2019t build that. You didn\u2019t make that happen.” Given the premise that the election in these swing states, the swing constituency is suburbanites, let them know that they are the target of Obama\u2019s destructive policies simply because of where they live. Not because they\u2019re Democrats, not because they\u2019re Republicans, not because they\u2019re liberals or conservatives or whatever, it\u2019s he doesn\u2019t like suburbs. The president of the United States has a problem with people who\u2019ve left the cities. He thinks they\u2019re racist. He thinks they\u2019ve run out on problems. He thinks they\u2019ve exacerbated problems. They\u2019ve taken their tax revenue and they\u2019ve taken their wealth and they moved out and the cities are decaying. It isn\u2019t fair and he wants the money back. Interesting premise. We shall see. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, Marianne in Roanoke, Virginia, I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. First-time caller, long-time listener.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I want to thank you for educating me. I\u2019ve loved listening to you. You\u2019re absolutely fantastic. Here\u2019s my comment. There\u2019s two I want to make. First, suburbians, the evil ones, people that live in the slums or the projects or wherever they live, if their environment is not good, they want to get out of it. They want to move to a better environment. If they have the opportunity to move to suburbia, they take it, whether it\u2019s Section 8 housing or they start their own small businesses or they educate themselves, they move out.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me tell you how the left thinks about this, since you bring that up. How many minority success stories have there been where they are told that they have abandoned the hood? The minute they score, they\u2019re out of there, too. And they have a duty to stay in the hood or they have to go back. Snerdley knows what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: It\u2019s along the same lines, if your grades are too good, you\u2019re being too white.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We heard that some years ago.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Well, speaking of that, Obama only knows the way he grew up, that people give you a hand up and help you. You can\u2019t go to high school and smoke dope, do blow and various other drugs and blow off high school and get into Occidental, get into Columbia, get into Harvard.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who says?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, somebody is padding his grades, that\u2019s all I can say. I have three children who are —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait a minute. Somebody that I am relatively familiar with admitted to playing around with cocaine and smoking marijuana and got into those places.<\/p>\n

CALLER: In his high school years?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no, he\u2019s president now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I know. But did this person —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, in his high school years. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, well, from what the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Even in his college years. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, in the cars, it was so smoke filled that you couldn\u2019t see the speedometer.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Lafayette, Louisiana. This is Richard. Thank you for the call, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Question about the Roanoke speech. Obama was talking about the great system that created all these millionaires and what not, but he ran on “change.” What\u2019s going on here?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, you\u2019re talking about the Roanoke speech?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite 13. Let\u2019s listen. I think you may be on to something, but I want to listen to it again just to make sure.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Look, i-i-if you\u2019ve been successful, you didn\u2019t get there on your own.<\/p>\n

FOLLOWERS: That\u2019s right!<\/p>\n

OBAMA: You didn\u2019t get there on your own. I\u2019m always struck by people who think, “Well, it must be because I was just so smart!”<\/p>\n

FOLLOWERS: (laughing)<\/p>\n

OBAMA: There are a lot of smart people out there. “It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.” Let me tell you something. There are a whole bunch of hardworkin\u2019 people out there!<\/p>\n

FOLLOWERS: (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

OBAMA: If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help!<\/p>\n

FOLLOWERS: Yeaaaaaah!<\/p>\n

OBAMA: There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.<\/p>\n

FOLLOWERS: Yeaaaaaah!<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape!<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Somebody invested in roads and bridges!<\/p>\n