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RUSH: Those of you in Chicago listening to WLS 890 AM, going to give you a few more minutes here, five or ten minutes to contact Andrew Greeley, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. He had a piece on December 8th that I wish to comment on, a specific portion of it directed at him. So if any of you there know him — and with the vast reach of the tentacles of this poisonous program, as he referred to it in his column, he referred to me as ‘poisonous,\u2019 the ‘poisonous tentacles\u2019 of this program reach throughout the city of Chicago, even, I\u2019m sure, into the office of Barack Obama. Did you see Barack last night opened the broadcast on ESPN\u2019s Monday Night Football? You know, I love the way ESPN has held to it that there\u2019s to be no politics on their network and no political figures and no political discussion. I love the way ESPN sticks to its policy manual, ladies and gentlemen.BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Moving on to Chicago and Andrew Greeley, who I\u2019m told is a Catholic priest in Chicago. He had a column on December 8th in the Chicago Sun-Times about Barack Obama and the headline: ‘If He Does, He Better Be Ready to Face Nasty Opposition — ‘Should Barack Obama run for president,\u2019 Mr. Greeley, or Father Greeley, opens his piece, ‘it will be a tough call for the senator and for those who admire and respect him personally. If he runs he has a good chance of winning because he represents what Americans want in their president at this very troubled time in their history, a man of firm principles but not an ideologue–‘<\/p>\n

Yes, he is, Mr. Greeley, but that\u2019s not the point. ‘–a moderate –‘ No, he\u2019s not, Mr. Greeley. That\u2019s not the point. ‘–who can sympathize with his opponent\u2019s position.\u2019 He sympathizes only after he defeats them, Mr. Greeley. At any rate, the piece went on: ‘A second reason for not running is that the political rhetoric in this country is toxic. Attack ads, negative campaigns, personal assaults are an essential part of American politics, but why should Obama fear any of this,\u2019 ladies and gentlemen. He\u2019s done nothing wrong. He\u2019s exactly what everybody wants. He may get the media anal exam but it won\u2019t find anything. He\u2019s perfect. ‘Bloggers, radio talk show hosts like the poisonous Rush Limbaugh who calls the Senator Osama Obama,\u2019 and that is the point.<\/p>\n

This is beginning to stick out there, and the reason it\u2019s beginning to sick is because leftists and columnists and Democrats and apparently priests like Andrew Greeley get their sources of information on me not from me, but from websites whose primary purpose is to misquote, misrepresent, and ultimately dehumanize me. So, Mr. Greeley, father Greeley, I hope you have been contacted, I hope you have your radio on. I would like to play for you — again, this is about the 20th time we\u2019ve done this. I would like to play for you an audio sound bite from January 11, 2005, the National Press Club. Senator Kennedy has just finished a speech and has been asked a question. The question is irrelevant. Here is Senator Kennedy\u2019s answer.<\/p>\n

KENNEDY: There you go. Why don\u2019t we just ask Osama bin Laden? Uh, Osama Obama! (giggles) Obama what is — since he won by such a big amount.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And it was at that point, Mr. Greeley, that we began to have fun with once again another humorous verbal misstep on the part of Senator Kennedy, a prominent Democrat who referred to ‘Obama Osama.\u2019 Every time he does it I get caught repeating it. It was Senator Kennedy who referred to him as ‘Osama bin Laden,\u2019 and then ‘Osama Obama,\u2019 and we then produced a parody tune. In fact, Ed, if you can find that parody tune during the break, we should play that for father Greeley as well and anybody else out there. Do I expect this to change the record? No. The record will remain that I called Obama Osama, when it was Senator Kennedy who actually said this first at the National Press Club, and I find it interesting that no one there at the National Press Club chose to report what Senator Kennedy said. Our microphones were there, and we heard it, and we have played it, made a little parody song. Here again, audio sound bite number one, Ed, this is Senator Kennedy, January 11th, 2005, National Press Club, answering a question from the media.<\/p>\n

KENNEDY: There you go. Why don\u2019t we just ask Osama bin Laden? Uh, Osama Obama! (giggles) Obama what is — since he won by such a big amount.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And, by the way, Father Greeley, Mr. Greeley, there was lots of laughter at this answer. People found it very humorous that Senator Kennedy made this faux pas, this Freudian slip or what have you. But note the anger on the part of Democrats when they\u2019re told that I originated this. No sense of humor whatsoever, which is the case most of the time.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Speaking of Ted Kennedy, now I\u2019ve poisoned Ted Kennedy. I put the words in his mouth, and of course, I\u2019m a mean-spirited SOB because I took a harmless slip of the tongue and have now blown it up into an insensitive, mean-spirited, not funny attack on both Senator Kennedy and Obama. This is how it will be played, ladies and gentlemen. Because there\u2019s no sense of humor on the left, absolutely none, zip, zero, nada. Yes, Barack Hussein Obama. Senator Kennedy, by the way, dropped yesterday his public commitment to support Senator Kerry in the 2008 presidential race, saying he won\u2019t wait indefinitely for Kerry to declare his intentions while the Democratic Party field takes place. Now, a lot of hubbub has been caused over this, and Senator Kennedy has since said (mumbling impression) he will still support Kerry ‘if he announces in a timely fashion.\u2019<\/p>\n

Kennedy\u2019s office issued a statement ‘clarifying,\u2019 a typical ‘clarifying statement.\u2019 They didn\u2019t do this after the January 11, 2005, National Press Club appearance, saying that Kennedy will support Kerry if he declares his candidacy in the near term, though Kennedy aides declined to define that schedule. Then it says here, ‘Kennedy\u2019s comments come at a difficult time for Kerry. Early polls show him far behind the leading Democrats in potential presidential fields, and many party activists want Democrats to look for a fresh face in 2008.\u2019 They found it. Folks, there\u2019s no way that John Kerry — who has the face of a St. Bernard, who has not made the rescue on a snowy mountainside, very sad. There\u2019s no way he can compare or compete in any way, shape, manner, or form with Barack Obama. It just can\u2019t be done. I\u2019m not sure Mrs. Clinton can, either. I\u2019m not sure anybody can compete with Barack Obama, Barack Hussein Obama, just don\u2019t think it can be done, and certainly, certainly not Senator Kerry. Senator Kennedy knows this. He doesn\u2019t want to attach himself to a losing horse two terms in a row.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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