{"id":15167,"date":"2012-07-12T16:26:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-12T16:26:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T16:26:01","slug":"romney_treated_the_naalcp_as_an_audience_of_equals_and_that_scares_the_left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/12\/romney_treated_the_naalcp_as_an_audience_of_equals_and_that_scares_the_left\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Treated the NAALCP as an Audience of Equals and That Scares the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:  The first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that\u2019s a storybook, man. That was Joe Biden back in 2007.  Biden spoke to the NAALCP today and he got booed when he left.  He got booed when he said he was going to stop speaking.  I think the audience didn\u2019t want the laughs to stop. <\/p>\n<p>Hi, folks.  How are you?  Rush Limbaugh here, and we are back, three full hours of broadcast excellence.  Telephone number, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program. <\/p>\n<p>And just as predicted yesterday, the media, all they can do, all they\u2019ve been doing is running nonstop repeats &#8212; it\u2019s like the Rodney King beating all over again &#8212; of Romney being booed at the <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15179\">NAACP yesterday<\/a>.  The media is as excited as they were during the Rodney King beating, replaying that thing over and over and over. And Pelosi, Pelosi may be the one that has figured this out.  Did you hear what Pelosi said?  Pelosi said to Bloomberg TV it was all a setup, that Romney wanted to be booed by the NAALCP, that he went there for the express purpose of ticking \u2019em off so that he would get booed because Romney was playing to the racist white vote. That it is a benefit &#8212; is what she meant &#8212; it is a benefit to Romney for the rest of the voters in America, to get booed by the NAACP. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_64673\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biden-Romney-Rush-NAACP.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Now, if she\u2019s right, then the State-Controlled Media has certainly fallen into his trap.  (laughing) Romney laid this cleverly &#8212; well, formulated plan, a trap, and the media\u2019s fallen right into it \u2019cause they\u2019re playing that clip, as I said, like it\u2019s like the Second Coming of the Rodney King beating. (interruption) Yes, yes, we mentioned he got a standing O at the end of the speech, but they\u2019re not mentioning that. They\u2019re not talking about that.  In fact, let me ask you, how disgusting would it have been &#8212; what did Romney get booed for?  He said he\u2019s going to repeal Obamacare.  So these people, I guess, want higher taxes, they want death panels, they want all of the chaos that\u2019s going to come with Obamacare. <\/p>\n<p>Imagine if Romney had told them what they wanted to hear, how would that have gone?  If Romney had told the NAALCP what they wanted to hear, he would have said, &#8220;Under a Romney administration, we will get even more blacks on food stamps than President Obama has.&#8221;  Yeah, right on, dude, right on.  We\u2019ve gotta be honest about this, Snerdley.  Romney got booed for articulating policies that would improve the lives of every American.  He did.  He got booed for policies that are designed to improve the lives and lifestyles of every American, did he not? <\/p>\n<p>Okay.  So what could he have said that would have generated applause?  Well, I was thinking about it.  He could have said, &#8220;Under a Romney administration, we will get even more of you on food stamps than President Obama has.&#8221;  Right on.  &#8220;We will keep unemployment above 14% for black Americans, and we will raise the minimum wage so that 75% of blacks won\u2019t have a job.&#8221;  Right on, dude, right on. (interruption) You say he would have been booed if he said that?  No, wait a minute.  He was booed for saying the opposite, because Romney\u2019s policies want to reduce black unemployment. Romney\u2019s policies want to reduce the number of people on food stamps. Romney\u2019s policies want more people working, and that got booed, so I\u2019m simply asking what could he have said that would have generated cheer? <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" width=\"585\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/114830\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He got booed for telling the truth.  Biden got booed because he stopped lying.  Biden\u2019s speech was a lie. He ends his speech, they boo.  The audience wanted Biden to keep lying to \u2019em.  They asked the spokeskid, Jay Carney, &#8220;Why isn\u2019t Obama here?&#8221;  The spokeskid said, (paraphrasing) &#8220;President Obama, he doesn\u2019t go in for voting bloc speeches,&#8221; or something like that.  He doesn\u2019t pay attention to voting blocs.  And Donna Brazile said that Obama was there in spirit.  We have that.  Grab audio sound bite number seven.  Wolf Blitzer is ticked off that Obama didn\u2019t go the NAALCP.  Did you hear about that?  Everything CNN\u2019s doing is a ratings ploy these days.  Here\u2019s Brazile, and Wolf Blitzer said, &#8220;I think he shoulda gone as well. I think Obama should have gone. Why didn\u2019t he go?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BRAZILE:  First of all, I thought the president was there in spirit. Eric Holder was there yesterday. The vice president\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  He was there in spirit.  See, here\u2019s the thing.  Mitt Romney treated the members of the NAALCP as though they were independent thinking adult citizens, and he got booed.  He treated them with respect, and he got booed.  He treated them with equality.  He treated \u2019em as equals.  He got booed.  Another sound bite.  This is a good one.  I\u2019m not playing this because I\u2019m in it.  This is another one of those days where, if I wanted to, every sound bite could be me.  This is Jonathan Karl on Good Morning America today and they\u2019re doing a report on Romney\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p>KARL:  Rush Limbaugh went after President Obama for not even showing up to speak.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH ARCHIVE:  To send Biden to the NAALCP, the first black president, election year, can\u2019t show up to your convention?  He\u2019s confident they\u2019ll boo Romney simply cause Romney\u2019s white.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15179\"><img id=\"eZObject_64675\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushRomneyNAACP3889.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KARL:  Four years ago then-candidate John McCain took a different approach and praised his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>MCCAIN:  Senator Obama talks about making history, and he\u2019s made quite a bit of it already.  And the way was prepared by this venerable organization and others like it.<\/p>\n<p>KARL:  And he received a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  See?  The media wants Romney to do what McCain did.  I had forgotten this, but now I play this sound bite and I\u2019m reminded. McCain went to the NAALCP, he praised Obama, and then praised the NAALCP.  He even praised the Congressional Black Caucasians for preparing Obama for his history making campaign, and he did indeed get a standing ovation.  And he got shellacked in the election.  But he did what the media wanted him to do.  He went in there and he praised Obama, and he praised the NAALCP and the Congressional Black Caucasians for preparing Obama for his moment in history.  Right on, Senator, you just killed yourself, and we love it.  We can\u2019t be happier.  You came here, and you fell on your sword for us, and you know what that\u2019s gonna get you?  Defeat. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I realize it may be somewhat controversial to say, and I certainly am no stranger to controversy, but I live in Realville, and logic and common sense perhaps are my burden.  I\u2019m burdened with logic. I\u2019m burdened with common sense.  If Romney goes in there, treats them as equals, if he treated them as independent thinking adults and gets booed, then what could he have said to engender applause?  And I\u2019m thinking more of the same?  He could have gone in and promised what Obama\u2019s gonna give \u2019em.  He got applause on gay marriage. He got applause on that.  But I\u2019m not dealing with what really happened in there, Snerdley.  I\u2019m dealing with a perception.  Perception\u2019s reality, and the perception is he got booed all day long.  That\u2019s the media.  Every news story from last night, yesterday afternoon, through today, is that Romney got booed.  That\u2019s what I\u2019m dealing with. <\/p>\n<p>So if he got booed for treating them as independent thinking adult citizens, what could he have been praised for?  Giving them more of what Obama\u2019s given \u2019em?  I guess that\u2019s what they\u2019re happy with?  Okay, how about 15% unemployment. &#8220;I, Mitt Romney guarantee 15% unemployment in the black community.&#8221; Right on.  That\u2019s what we want to hear.  &#8220;Now, I guarantee that 80% of black Americans will be on food stamps after my second year in office.&#8221; Right on.  That\u2019s exactly what we want to hear. (interruption) Well, of course it sounds absurd, but the whole thing\u2019s absurd.  This is my point. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WAhJh0ADd9k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Obamacare tax gets cheered because Obama has lied about every aspect of it.  Democrats are convinced they can trade food stamps for votes, cash in on the ignorance of the people that they lie to.  I mean it\u2019s the lowest form of politics.  It\u2019s a betrayal.  Obama and the Democrats get away with betraying these people, and these people applaud them.  The Democrats have promised variations on a Utopian theme since LBJ\u2019s Great Society.  The intent was to do nothing more than buy votes with trinkets of dependency and false hope.  And so fraud has been the Democrats\u2019 platform for black America for 50 years.  And yesterday it was illustrated, that the Democrat Party platform is fraud.  Yesterday on this program, ladies and gentlemen, talking about what Romney was doing and so forth, I ventured this opinion.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH ARCHIVE:  Now, what do I think Romney was really doing here in this speech today? I don\u2019t think he was speaking to that audience. That\u2019s why I kinda got a little short with Snerdley. I think Romney used the forum. He knew there\u2019s media there. I think he used the forum to try to take the occasion here to spread his own message about the economy and everything else he\u2019s trying to accomplish in his campaign. I think he used this event as an opportunity, rather than to speak to these people directly as his primary purpose.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So we put together a montage of various media figures all over the place &#8212; from the Washington Post, to CNN, to NBC, to Nancy Pelosi &#8212; and this is what we found when we put the montage together.<\/p>\n<p>JOY-ANN REID: He went in there with an eye toward an audience which is really not black voters.<\/p>\n<p>MIKE VIQUEIRA: Mitt Romney intentionally and willfully antagonized the audience down in Houston today!<\/p>\n<p>BROOKE BALDWIN: That whole line about repealing Obamacare? Could he &#8212; Maybe? &#8212; have been aiming at his own base with that one?<\/p>\n<p>BEN JEALOUS: He really wasn\u2019t trying to talk to them. He was trying to talk to somebody else.<\/p>\n<p>WILLIE BROWN: He did not speak to the working-class people who were in that room. He spoke beyond them.<\/p>\n<p>JONATHAN CAPEHART: The other audience is still his core constituency, his base.<\/p>\n<p>CORNELL BELCHER: He wasn\u2019t there to try to have a conversation with NAACP. He was there this afternoon to have a conversation with his Republican base.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_64684\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Romney-NAACP-1_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>NANCY PELOSI: It was a calculated move on his part to get booed at the NAACP convention.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, so I guess I called it. Show prep for the rest of the media. I said he was speaking to people beyond the audience, and that\u2019s what these people thought, too, and that was Pelosi at the end. It was &#8220;a calculated move to get booed.&#8221; Why would he want to get booed? What\u2019s the calculation, that it\u2019s helpful to get booed at the NAACP? That\u2019s very cynical, is it not, folks? How much cynicism do you have to have to sit there and think Romney purposely went in there to get booed by the NAALCP so as to benefit him with other voting blocs? I can\u2019t imagine anybody doing anything like that, not in American politics. It\u2019s a new low. I can\u2019t fathom it.<\/p>\n<p>Romney himself, last night on Fox News Channel, was with Neil Cavuto, who said, &#8220;What\u2019s your reaction to the fact that you got a booed in there?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ROMNEY: I think we expected that, of course. But, you know, I\u2019m gonna give the same message to the NAACP that I give across the country, which is that Obamacare is killing jobs. And if jobs is the priority, then we\u2019re gonna have to replace Obamacare with something that actually holds down health care costs, as opposed to causing more spending for the government and more spending for American families.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Exactly. He went in there and he treated \u2019em like independent-thinking adults, as good citizens. He got booed for telling them how he wanted to improve their lives and the lives of all Americans. He got booed for it. And he knew he was going to. He shoulda gone in there and promised more disaster, promised more calamity. Now, the response from one NAALCP leader after his speech was quite telling.<\/p>\n<p>Charlette Stoker Manning is a chairwoman of Women in NAALCP. It\u2019s a subgroup. You have the NAALCP, and then under that umbrella you got the Congressional Black Caucasians, and then you have the Women in NAALCP. So there\u2019s actually two NAALCPs that women can be members of. They can be a member of the umbrella group, and then the subgroup, Women in NAALCP. And this babe, Charlette Stoker Manning, is a chairwoman of Women in NAALCP.<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;I believe his vested interests are in white Americans. You cannot possibly talk about jobs for black people at the level he\u2019s coming from. He\u2019s talking about entrepreneurship, savings accounts &#8212; black people can barely find a way to get back and forth from work.&#8221; Black people don\u2019t know about savings accounts; black people don\u2019t know about entrepreneurship. Who does Romney think he\u2019s talking to?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not making this up. She said it. This is Charlette Stoker Manning. She said those exact words. (interruption) It\u2019s not racist, Snerdley. It\u2019s not possible in our political culture for blacks to be racist. The Reverend Jackson, in between mood swings, has told us this. There are no black racists. And do you know why? Because they don\u2019t have the power to enforce, implement, or use, whatever, their racism. They don\u2019t have the power. Tell it to Holder. Tell it to Obama. I\u2019m telling you the active, accepted political theory is that racism among blacks is not possible.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll tell you again what Charlette Stoker Manning, a chairwoman of Women in NAALCP said. &#8220;You cannot&#8230;&#8221; She\u2019s talking about Romney. &#8220;You cannot possibly talk about jobs for black people at the level he\u2019s coming from. He\u2019s talking about entrepreneurship, savings accounts &#8212; black people can barely find a way to get back and forth from work.&#8221; So they don\u2019t know savings accounts and entrepreneurship. I take you back. I take you back to Monday of this week on this program when I first introduced the notion of the economy and how it resonates as an economic issue.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img id=\"eZObject_64682\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/000MostDangerousMan.jpg\"\/><\/a>RUSH: So you go into the NAALCP, you address the members like independent-thinking adult citizens, and you propose policies to improve their quality of life, and the quality of life of all black Americans. You try to empathize with the members of the NAALCP when it comes to jobs, and you have a woman say: You can\u2019t talk about jobs of black people like Romney did! He\u2019s talking about entrepreneurship and savings accounts? Black people don\u2019t know what that is.<\/p>\n<p>Does it sound to you like Ms. Stoker is saying blacks aren\u2019t smart enough to start businesses or have savings accounts? Does it sound like she\u2019s saying that blacks are inferior and stupid? She\u2019s not saying that, obviously, but she wants people to think that blacks have nothing to do with savings accounts and entrepreneurship. (translated) &#8220;Are you kidding? We are so discriminated against, we are at such an unfair disadvantage, why, we can barely get back and forth to work in this racist country! What are you talking about, savings accounts and entrepreneurship?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what she wants people to think. But the way it comes across is that she doesn\u2019t have any faith or confidence in black people to get a job, have a savings account, or start a business. She doesn\u2019t want to admit that there\u2019s a black middle class. Folks, I think this is sick. And not just sick; I think it is tragic. And I also think this is exactly what Barack Obama hoped would happen. Romney goes in there, and the aftermath is all about how he got booed and the color of his skin.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019ll tell you why. I think they\u2019re scared to death of his message. He went in there and he did treat them as adults. And he did treat them as independent-thinking, competent citizens. And he treated them as equals. He treated \u2019em as people with the same desires as he\u2019s got. Substance. Issues. I think they\u2019re having a collective upset. Plus he looked good, and I think they\u2019re panicked. I think they\u2019re beside themselves here. Romney wasn\u2019t supposed to pull this off that well.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: People are like Snerdley.  They don\u2019t believe &#8212; I mean they believe it.  They just can\u2019t process that this woman, Charlette Stoker Manning, actually said this.  But she did. In criticizing Romney, she said, (paraphrasing) &#8220;He can\u2019t come in here and talk about jobs for black people like he did.  He\u2019s talking about entrepreneurship and savings accounts.  Black people can barely find a way to get back and forth from work.  They don\u2019t know savings accounts, entrepreneurship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She doesn\u2019t get that she\u2019s making \u2019em sound inept, incompetent, stupid, uneducated, and totally dependent.  What she wants people to think is the deck is so stacked against black people, it\u2019s such a racist country, so much discrimination out there, why, entrepreneurship?  Why, The Man ain\u2019t gonna let that happen.  Savings accounts?  The blacks aren\u2019t gonna be allowed to have savings accounts.  Look at what the banks did to \u2019em in the subprime &#8212; that\u2019s what she\u2019s counting on.  I guarantee you, that is what she\u2019s counting on the black audience thinking of her remarks.  She\u2019s hoping to create a bond with these people.  She wants to relate to what she thinks the plight of black people in America is.  Savings accounts?  What do you mean?  Why, we can\u2019t even find a way to get back and forth to work.<\/p>\n<p>Well, who has been president for the past three-and-a-half years, and who was supposed to fix all that?  Who was supposed to make this better while it\u2019s gotten worse?  Romney hadn\u2019t anything to do with this.  Romney hadn\u2019t lost one job for these people.  Romney has not done one thing that has impacted these people in any way, pro or con.  He\u2019s been nothing but a candidate for the last three-and-a-half years. (interruption) I know.  Well, there is no firestorm over this because this is the kind of comment the media wants. This is what the left wants out of a Romney trip to the NAACP.  They want comments. Romney\u2019s too white. Romney got booed.  Obama wants this about skin color. <\/p>\n<p>They might say, why is Obama not there?  Would you go to the NAALCP with your record, with your economic record?  You\u2019ve got 14.4% black unemployment. Look at all the other horrible statistics involving black life in America, would you want to go there?  That\u2019s why he\u2019s not showing up.  He doesn\u2019t have a story to tell \u2019em.  So he sends surrogates out there, like Holder and Biden, to tell these people, &#8220;Now, you gotta have Barack\u2019s back, \u2019cause these mean people are after our president, after our historical president, gotta have your back.&#8221;  He doesn\u2019t have the guts to go, and the Drive-Bys can\u2019t figure this out.  Grab sound bite six.  Let\u2019s do that one first.  This is Wolf Blitzer last night on The Situation Room on CNN.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WU6hEZ_a4CI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>BLITZER: Here\u00c2\u2019s something I\u00c2\u2019d like to say to President Obama: You should have attended the NAACP convention in Houston today. Mitt Romney did. It was the right thing to do. The Republican knows the nation\u00c2\u2019s oldest civil-rights group isn\u00c2\u2019t exactly friendly turf but he went anyway. It was a smart political move for Mitt Romney to address the NAACP. He knows he is not going to win over a lot of black voters, but attending these kinds of events is important in reassuring a lot of those suburban white voters that he is a moderate, decent politician, someone who wants to work with all Americans. I\u00c2\u2019m surprised the president was a no-show. The president should not take the African-American vote for granted.  My bottom line is this: Romney did the right thing on this day; the president did not.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Wait a second.  What just happened here?  Aside from what Wolf said, this is a breakout. This is Wolf Blitzer doing commentary not disguised as news.  Normally Wolf does this stuff as news, but this was obviously Wolf Blitzer doing an editorial.  This is unheard of for CNN.  They usually bring in guests and commentators. Wolf, right from the anchor chair, delivered an editorial, so to speak.  I guess they\u2019re trying to break out of the doldrums there at CNN with an opinion, stated opinion.  That\u2019s what it was. <\/p>\n<p>It was an undisguised opinion.  Wolf wasn\u2019t pretending to be objective here.  He branched out.  If I didn\u2019t know better I\u2019d say he\u2019s auditioning for Fox.  Maybe MSNBC.  No, it wasn\u2019t hard hitting enough.  You can\u2019t audition for MSNBC criticizing Obama, so it wasn\u2019t that.  He had to be auditioning for Fox.  Here\u2019s Romney.  Romney coming out of the NAACP went over to Cavuto on the Fox News Channel, and Cavuto said, &#8220;Four years ago, Obama got 96% of the black vote.  You expect to chip away at that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_64687\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Romney-NAACP-2_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>ROMNEY:  I do, actually, and I spoke with a number of African-American leaders after the event, and they said, you know, a lot of folks don\u2019t want to say they\u2019re not gonna be voting for Barack Obama, but they\u2019re disappointed in his lack of policies to improve our schools, disappointed in urban policy, disappointed in the economy.  14.4% rate of unemployment among African-Americans today.  The president has not been able to get the job done.  People want to see someone who can get this economy going.  So I expect to get African-American votes.  And, by the way, at the end of my speech, having a standing ovation was generous and hospitable on the part of the audience, and I believe that while we disagree on some issues like Obamacare, on a lot of issues people see eye-to-eye.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, the point of that is that Romney said a bunch of them told him that they\u2019re dissatisfied with Obama, when the thing was over, in private.  Of course, the deal is he will not mention their names.  But the Atlantic, a reporterette by the name of Molly Ball: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2012\/07\/why-isnt-obama-speaking-to-the-naacp\/259707\/\">&#8220;Why Isn\u2019t Obama Speaking to the NAACP?&#8221;<\/a> The Drive-Bys can\u2019t figure this out.  Wolf Blitzer is not alone. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Obama is going to win the African-American vote. By a lot. Let\u2019s just get that out of the way. Even so, his decision not to speak at this week\u2019s NAACP convention is perplexing. &#8230; The official explanation from the White House was that Obama had &#8216;scheduling\u2019 issues.  When the president is invited and sends an underling instead, that\u2019s an undeniable dis, especially when his opponent shows up in person. Obama, who won 95 percent of the black vote in 2008 &#8230; may believe he can afford to take black voters for granted. But that\u2019s not at all clear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So the Drive-Bys are trying to figure out why would Obama dis the brothers and the sisters at the NAALCP?  &#8216;Cause they can\u2019t find an obvious political explanation for it.  All they gotta do is listen to me.  Obama doesn\u2019t have the guts to show up.  He\u2019s got no story to tell.  He can\u2019t go up there and say, &#8220;You want four more years of this?  Working together, we can make it even better.&#8221;  He can\u2019t say anything like that.  There\u2019s not one positive he can go before that group and say.  So he has to send the underlings in there to present this tale about how they\u2019re all out after Obama. Send Holder in there and send Biden in there and say, &#8220;You gotta have Obama\u2019s back. You gotta hold the brothers back because out to get him.&#8221;  That\u2019s about all they can do. <\/p>\n<p>You remember the book, Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin?  The Democrats of old fought to keep blacks living on the plantation, Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin.  We need to revise that.  Now the Democrats fight to keep blacks on the dependency plantation.  Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin, no.  It\u2019s now Uncle Sam\u2019s Cabin.  That\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happened.  Uncle Sam\u2019s Cabin. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re gonna start Arlington, Virginia.  Hi, Joe.  Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hey, Rush, honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  First, I think Ms. Charlette has Joe Biden writing her talking points for her, because him and his Mexicans living in the tiny house while the parents do it next door, only he could put his foot in his mouth like that.  And she followed in his footsteps.  But I think Romney going to the NAACP is huge on several accounts.  I think it helps to turn independents.  My wife is an independent.  I\u2019m a Republican.  But I &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_64686\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushDittoheadNation585_2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Tell me how.  I want to understand this independent business.  How does Romney going to the NAALCP help him with independents?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Well, because I think that, you know, the fact that he can go in there and say the same thing to them, knowing that they\u2019re not gonna agree with him, it helps people to think, okay, I can get behind a guy who\u2019s gonna go in there &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  So it\u2019s kind of like what Wolf Blitzer said, Romney going to the NAACP shows the independents that Romney is for all Americans.  That Romney wants the best for everyone.  Romney\u2019s willing to reach out and work with even those who disagree.  And that\u2019s what the independents want.  They want somebody that\u2019s gonna work with the people and hate \u2019em.  They want somebody that\u2019s gonna work with the people who disagree with \u2019em and that\u2019s how you get the independent vote.  So Romney going in there to the NAACP, enemy territory, that is gonna redound very favorably with the independent vote.  Is that how it works?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Yeah.  I think the independents, even more so than Republicans, have really still been, you know, very undecided about which direction they\u2019re gonna go.  And I just heard somebody yesterday say they were leaning towards Romney.  Myself, I was a Ron Paul guy.  I like what the Ron Paul message is.  It\u2019s very clear: I\u2019m gonna dismantle this government and start over.  So I\u2019ve had a hard time with Romney \u2019cause he seems, you know, kind of aloof, kind of political.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  You\u2019re warming up to Romney \u2019cause he went to the NAALCP and treated \u2019em as equals?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Absolutely.  And that was a huge turning point for myself and for my wife, which is a registered Independent.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Right. Cool.  Cool.  Well, the only loser here is Ron Paul.  I\u2019m glad you called.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: To refresh your memory if you\u2019re just joining us. One of the comments from a lot of ranking leaders at the NAALCP, after Romney\u2019s speech yesterday&#8230; Her name is Charlette Stoker Manning, she is a chairwoman of Women in the NAALCP. She told the website BuzzFeed (this is the source for it in case you want to independently confirm this for yourself), following Romney\u2019s speech at the NAALCP in Houston on Wednesday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Charlette Stoker Manning said to Buzz Feed, &#8220;You can\u2019t possibly talk about jobs for black people at a level Romney\u2019s coming from. He\u2019s talking about entrepreneurship, savings accounts &#8212; black people can barely find a way to get back and forth from work.&#8221; Okay, they don\u2019t know savings accounts, entrepreneurship. So let\u2019s try an experiment. 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I want to talk to you in a way you understand it &#8212; and that is, you don\u2019t have any, and you don\u2019t know how to find one, and if you do find one, all you can barely manage to do is get back and forth to it.&#8221; Now, what if he\u2019d said that? What if Romney had approached the members of the NAALCP as Charlette Stoker Manning seems to have suggested would have been a better way to do it?<\/p>\n<p>Folks, I shudder to tell you what the news last night and all day today would be if Romney had gone in there and said that. Yet, Romney can go in there and treat them as adults, as equals. He can relate to them as human beings who have the same aspirations that he does. He can say that he understands they\u2019re no different than he is. They want the same thing he wants, and vice-versa. He wants the same things they want.<\/p>\n<p>And the reaction is, &#8220;He\u2019s too white; he doesn\u2019t get it. He\u2019s too rich. We want Obama. We want 14.5% unemployment, not 14.4%! We want more food stamps. And, by the way, who do you think you are to come in here and talk to us about jobs? You don\u2019t understand jobs like we do!&#8221; It\u2019s mind-boggling. This organization, which was founded by three rich white people&#8230; Did you know that? Not that it matters to anything now, but three rich white people founded the NAALCP. White Republicans, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>Rich white Republicans founded the NAACP.<\/p>\n<p>The first president of the NAACP was a rich white Republican. All of its original officers, except one, were rich white Republicans. All of its early members and officers, black or white, were Republicans. NAACP was formed to fight Jim Crow laws, which were instituted in the South to keep blacks and poor whites from voting for Republicans. And now the NAACP has become an organization expressly devoted to keep blacks from voting for Republicans. Pure and simple. 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