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RUSH: I got the preacher here from 2010, Obama\u2019s Easter Sunday preacher calling me the KKK back in 2010. I don\u2019t know if I want to waste time on that. Yeah, why not? Why not? Well, let\u2019s do it \u2019cause — \u2019cause we got something funny to follow it. Okay, so January 15th in St. Davids, Pennsylvania, Eastern University\u2019s Windows of the World Convention, Washington, DC\u2019s Shiloh Baptist Church pastor Wallace Charles Smith was the speaker…<\/p>\n

SMITH: Any time you can have the kind of hatemongering that continues in the hallowed halls of talk radio, it shows that Barack\u2019s presidency has not solved the problem. Now Jim Crow wears blue pinstripes. He doesn\u2019t have to wear white robes anymore. Because now he can wear the protective cover of talk radio, or can get a regular news program on Fox. Even such venerable saints as Rush Limbaugh know the lines that they are not to cross. But any of their constituency can hear clear the same vile filth spewing forth in their statements that was once the purview of Robert Shelton and members of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens Council.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the Easter Sunday pastor of Obama. His name is Wallace Charles Smith. That\u2019s who did Obama\u2019s Easter Sunday sermon, but that bite was from January 15th of 2010. He\u2019s equating me with the KKK. Meanwhile, let\u2019s go back, shall we, to about six months after that: July 2nd of 2010 in Charleston, West Virginia, Bill Clinton eulogizing a Grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan, Robert Byrd, who served “with distinction and honor” in the United States Senate.<\/p>\n

CLINTON: There are a lot of people who wrote these eulogies for Senator Byrd in the newspapers, and I read a bunch of them, and they mentioned that he once had a fleeting association with the Klu (sic) Klux Klan and what does that mean. I\u2019ll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and the hollows of West Virginia. He was trying to get elected, and maybe he did something he shouldn\u2019t have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up — and that\u2019s what a good person does.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (applauding)<\/p>\n

CLINTON: There are no perfect people! There are certainly no perfect politicians.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. So at the eulogy for Byrd, Clinton felt compelled to bring up his Ku Klux Klan past, referring to it as “a fleeting association.” There was nothing “fleeting” about it. Byrd was a recruiter. He went out and recruited people to join the Klan. Grand Cyclops. I keep saying “Kleagle,” but he was a Grand Cyclops. His hood had three eyes. One in the back of his head, too, to see the people heading for him in that direction. Robert Byrd. So here\u2019s Clinton, basically saying (impression), “Hey, look. Hey! Yeah, so what? <\/p>\n

“He was a member of the Klan, but where\u2019s he from? He\u2019s from where you\u2019re from, right here! “You hayseeds and you hicks, he did it for you! You\u2019re all members of the Klan, and that\u2019s what he had to do! He had to pretend he was in the Klan just to get elected \u2019cause you wouldn\u2019t elect anybody else. He did it for you and he did it for himself, and then he spent the rest of his life apologizing for it.” That was Clinton\u2019s message. “Yes! Let\u2019s applaud Bill Clinton for calling us all a bunch of hicks and hayseeds and Klan sympathizers!”<\/p>\n

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