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RUSH: I have to go back, folks, I cannot let this end with what we did yesterday, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the spiritual advisor to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. I have been paying attention to the news media, the Drive-Bys, the mainstream media. These people are so in the tank they ought to be embarrassed. Their job is to ferret out stuff like this and hold the candidates, whoever they are, accountable. He\u2019s getting, Obama is, a total pass. In fact, the Drive-By Media mantra on Obama\u2019s pastor now seems to be, this is guilt by association. Obama didn\u2019t say this. You can\u2019t hold him responsible for this. You can\u2019t hold Obama accountable. He didn\u2019t say any of this. Anderson Cooper last night on CNN, ‘This focus on Reverend Wright is just completely off track.\u2019 They\u2019re all upset over at CNN and everybody\u2019s talking about this, they have to cover it, they don\u2019t want to cover it. <\/p>\n

In the New York Times today, piece by Jodi Kantor, listen to the last paragraph: ‘But, despite Mr. Obama\u2019s past attempts to distance himself from the harshest language, critics continued to question whether Mr. Wright\u2019s statements reflect Mr. Obama\u2019s beliefs.\u2019 How could they not? He chose the place! What is he, an innocent bystander in there? How could they not represent some of his beliefs? Chose to go there, been there 20 years, this guy baptized his kids. You know the drill. We went through all of this yesterday. When you choose a church to become part of your life, to attend it at least on Sundays, to send your children to, you\u2019re doing more than simply associating with it in some loose way. This isn\u2019t the case of an endorsement from a politically powerful pastor, some wacko pastor saying, ‘I endorse Obama,\u2019 and this guy happens to believe the US should be bombed off the planet, it\u2019s not the same thing. Obama chose to go to this guy\u2019s church, he chose to go up there, sit in the pew, and listen to the sermons. He has this guy on his campaign staff. (interruption) I know a lot of Democrats don\u2019t go to church, Mr. Snerdley, and I\u2019ll tell you another problem. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s cut to the chase here. A lot of the left in this country, and you\u2019ll find a lot of the left represented in the Drive-By Media, don\u2019t find much wrong with what the pastor is saying. That\u2019s why to them it isn\u2019t a news story. Well, of course America is this horrible place. This guy represents a body of thought in this country that\u2019s found in various enclaves of the Democrat Party and in a very large enclave of the Drive-By Media, and that\u2019s why they don\u2019t want to cover it, because to them, it\u2019s not news. They knew it would hurt Obama to come out and say, ‘Hey, what\u2019s wrong with the guy\u2019s sermon? We agree with all this, or a lot of it.\u2019 This pastor was the central force in this church, and that\u2019s why Obama chose it. It\u2019s why the pastor married them. It\u2019s why he baptized their kids. There is a story on the American Thinker blog today by C. Edmund Wright, who is not related to Pastor Wright, by the way. His theory is simply that the choice of this church by Obama was calculated so that Obama could establish his black street cred with certain elements of the American population. Now, this is just his theory. <\/p>\n

In other words, he embraced Jeremiah Wright and the church\u2019s agenda to ‘get his black street cred to escape his ‘white half.\u2019 Now, he\u2019s trying to divert attention away from his black street cred. And a little sober reminder here… he is doing this so he can occupy the Oval Office.\u2019 We are talking about the leading candidate for the Democrat nomination for president of the United States. Now, this is Mr. C. Edmund Wright\u2019s theory, that Obama did this to establish street cred. This was 20 years ago, and did this to mitigate his white half. They chose this church because of the charismatic pastor\u2019s beliefs. If they were repulsed by his racism or his anti-Semitism or his trip to Libya with Calypso Louie, or the award given to Calypso Louie by Pastor Wright, they have never showed it. They never said a word at the time. They never said, ‘Oh, Pastor Wright, we\u2019re really, really unhappy here that you\u2019re heading off to Libya.\u2019 No, didn\u2019t say a word about that. Now, here\u2019s the thing, too. The Obamas are very bright people. They are very, very bright people. They\u2019re highly educated people. They are politically astute people. Are we to believe that the pastor\u2019s views — he turns out to be a well-known race-baiter and hatemonger — were unknown to them, were foreign to them? <\/p>\n

It would be reasonable to conclude that this pastor is one of the reasons that Michelle ‘My Belle\u2019 Obama harbors the views that she does. She\u2019s an angry woman running around out there. The pastor doesn\u2019t just pop off here and there, folks, like the nutty uncle in the attic that Obama is trying to portray him as. This was his usual way of talking. We have a little bit more from him today. We have some extended segments when we come back from the commercial break. And, as you will hear, this is how he thinks. This is who he is. This is what the church life largely consisted of for the Obamas, and they chose this, and this pastor, above all others. I\u2019m telling you, the media\u2019s out there trying to say, ‘This is guilt by association.\u2019 How many times — I mentioned this yesterday — how many times, of those of you who are evangelical Christians, big-time pro-lifers, have you been smeared because you happened to like Pat Robertson? You\u2019ve been smeared because you happen to like Jerry Falwell? You\u2019ve been smeared because you happened to go to church? This guilt by association stuff, let\u2019s turn it around and do a 180. A lot of us in this country have been proclaimed guilty, found guilty by virtue of association. Now, all of a sudden, see, it works in a different way when we\u2019re talking about liberals. You still would have a tough time finding out what party Eliot Spitzer belongs to if you\u2019re watching any of the Drive-By networks or reading any of the big papers. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: How many Republicans have had to apologize, to atone, to beg forgiveness, for daring to speak at Bob Jones University? It\u2019s quite a large number, folks. You want to talk about double standards, here? You want to talk about this whole notion of guilt by association? The double standard here is that if Obama\u2019s name were Romney, and if the pastor were preaching hate against blacks and associated with neo-Nazis rather than Khadafy, he would be disqualified for president. He would have been drummed out of this campaign many moons ago. Romney made the point yesterday. He was victimized because he was a Mormon, victimized by liberal media. Not because his religion, or his minister preached hate, or segregation, or so forth, but just because his faith was different from the faith of most others. And this guy, Jeremiah Wright, is corrupting Christianity like I can\u2019t believe. What he\u2019s preaching is not Christianity. We\u2019ve got a longer version of Pastor Wright from what we played yesterday, three minutes and four seconds here.<\/p>\n

WRIGHT: Who cares about what a poor black man has to face every day in a country and a culture controlled by rich white people? Somebody missed that. You got nervous because we got some white members here. I am still in Bible country. I am still in the text. Jesus was a poor black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture, that was controlled by rich white people! The Romans were rich. The Romans were Italians — which means they were European, which means they were white — and the Romans ran everything in Jesus\u2019 country. It just came to me with — with — within the past few weeks, y\u2019all, why so many folk are hatin\u2019 on Barack Obama. He doesn\u2019t fit the model! He ain\u2019t white, he ain\u2019t rich, and he ain\u2019t privileged. (cheers) Hillary fits the mold. Europeans fit the mold! Giuliani fits the mold. Rich white men fit the mold. Hillary never had a cab whiz past her and not pick her up, because her skin was the wrong color. (applause) Hillary never had to worry about being pulled over in her car as a black man driving in the wrong lane! I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it! Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home; Barack was. Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people! Hillary can never know that! Hillary ain\u2019t never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had her people defined as nonpersons. Hillary ain\u2019t had to work twice as hard just to get accepted by the rich white folk who run everything, or to get a passing grade when you know you are smarter than their C-students sitting in the White House. Ooooh, I am so glad that I got a God who knows what it is to be a poor black man in a country and a culture that is controlled by and run by rich white people! He taught me, Jesus did, how to love my enemies. Jesus taught me how to love the hell out of my enemies, and not be reduced to their level of hatred, bigotry, and small-mindedness. Hillary ain\u2019t never had her own people say she wasn\u2019t white enough! Jesus had his own people siding with the enemy! That\u2019s why I love Jesus, y\u2019all. He never let their hatred dampen his hope. There is a name I love to hear, I love to sing. It\u2019s worth —<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, let\u2019s play audio sound bite number two. Let\u2019s play one more here. By the way, what you just heard was the 2007 Christmas sermon at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. This from the same sermon.<\/p>\n

WRIGHT: Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill have been good to us? No, he ain\u2019t! Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was riiiiiiding dirty in the White House! Rich white people! And one more. We\u2019ve bleeped this out. You heard it yesterday. This is the G.d. America sound bite. This is from a 2003 sermon.<\/p>\n

WRIGHT: The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing God Bless America? No, no, no! Not God Bless America! God (Bleep) America! (cheers) — it\u2019s in the Bible — for killing innocent people! (cheers) God (Bleep) America for treating her citizens as less than human! God (Bleep) America, as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is supreme!<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s like the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the spiritual advisor and chosen pastor of Barack Obama for the past 20 years. Some questions for Senator Obama after all of this. Senator Obama, surely you knew of your pastor\u2019s background. You knew what he believed. You knew what he preached. You knew he was a race-baiter and a hatemonger. Yet you not only joined his church, you remained there for 20 years; you had this pastor marry you and your wife, and you had him baptize your children. Can you explain yourself, here? Number two, Senator Obama: Do you think it\u2019s healthy for parents to let their young children listen to sermons like this where a pastor is using curse words against God, where he is preaching hatred against whites and Jews, where he\u2019s preaching hatred for his own country? Do you think that\u2019s healthy for your kids to hear? Senator Obama, if you\u2019re unaware of what your own pastor of 20 years has been preaching — of his association with Farrakhan, of his trip to see Moammar Khadafy — how can you be trusted to be president of the United States? <\/p>\n

How can it be said that you are as smart as they say you are if you\u2019re going to tell us you don\u2019t know what all this guy has been saying? Senator Obama, as recently as 2006, it\u2019s reported that you contributed $22,500 to the pastor\u2019s church. By then you surely knew of his views. You knew of his trip to Libya with Farrakhan. You knew of the award he gave Farrakhan. You knew all about the hate and racism that your pastor was spewing. Why did you give a $22,500 contribution to this church rather than resign from it in protest? You give this church, Senator Obama, $22,500, and you are endorsing what goes on there, and you want it to continue. How many other contributions to the church have you made, Senator Obama, in your 20-year membership? You\u2019ve said that you don\u2019t agree with ‘everything\u2019 the pastor said. Can you tell us what you agree with, from what he has said? You told us what you don\u2019t agree with. Please, Senator Obama, tell us what your minister says that you agree with. These are reasonable questions. The man is running for the office of president of the United States of America, and if we didn\u2019t have a Drive-By Media in the tank for the guy — and who probably didn\u2019t think half of what this preacher says is true — they would be asking these questions. And Senator Obama, you take offense at Geraldine Ferraro and others\u2019 little criticisms of you?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One more audio sound bite here from Reverend Jeremiah Wright. This is from the Trinity United Church of Christ, a sermon. This is shortly after 9\/11. Yeah, you probably hadn\u2019t heard this one, Rachel, but in this one, Reverend Wright says we deserve what we got. We ‘rich, white peeeeople\u2019 deserve to be blown up on 9\/11.<\/p>\n

WRIGHT: We bombed Hiroshima! We bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians, and black South Africans, and now we are indignant (cheers) because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards! (cheers and applause) America\u2019s chickens are coming home…to roost.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s right out of the mouth of Malcolm X. It\u2019s right out of Malcolm X. Right out of Malcolm X. ‘America\u2019s chickenssss are coming home to roosssst.\u2019 Yeah, I know. It was around the time of JFK\u2019s assassination. Now, we need to get some credit to somebody. Brian Ross is the one Drive-By reporter who\u2019s following up the story and reporting on it. Now, the Wall Street Journal had a column today by Ronald Kessler, but yesterday Brian Ross at ABC did. We\u2019ve gotta give credit where credit is due. The rest of the Drive-Bys are wishing they could make this go away, because they know it is not helpful to Obama. But Brian Ross, we\u2019ve had our disagreements with him in the past, but he\u2019s been in there on this one. <\/p>\n

Also, in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review today, David Brown talked to Obama, and the headline: ‘Obama Addresses Pa.\u2019s Importance, Pastor\u2019s Remarks — Question: I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve seen it, but it\u2019s all over the wire today (from an ABC News story), a statement that your pastor (the Rev. Jeremiah Wright …) made in a sermon in 2003 that instead of singing ‘God Bless America,\u2019 black people should sing a song essentially saying ‘God (Bleep) America.\u2019 Obama: I haven\u2019t seen the line. This is a pastor who is on the brink of retirement who in the past has made some controversial statements. I profoundly disagree with some of these statements. Question: What about this particular statement? Obama: Obviously, I disagree with that. Here is what happens when you just cherry-pick statements from a guy who had a 40-year career as a pastor. There are times when people say things that are just wrong. But I think it\u2019s important to judge me on what I\u2019ve said in the past and what I believe.\u2019 Well, that\u2019s what this is about, Senator.<\/p>\n

Senator Obama, I\u2019d like to ask you another question. Could you tell me, cite some things that he has said that you agree with? So far you\u2019ve been saying, ‘I don\u2019t agree with that, I don\u2019t agree with that, but, you know, he\u2019s sort of like the crazy uncle out there, and he\u2019s retired. He\u2019s been out there 40 years. People are cherry-picking, guilt by association.\u2019 Tell us something he said that you agree with. There\u2019s gotta be something. You\u2019re giving the guy $22,500 at a time. We don\u2019t know how many times, at least once. Senator Obama, this is your pastor. Senator Obama, I have another question for you. Why did you invite your pastor to do the prayer to your announcement when you were going to run for the presidency, and then the night before, and cancel it? Why did you do that? Why did you rescind the invitation to your pastor, the night before, after you had asked him to do the prayer? Look, it\u2019s not Geraldine Ferraro asking these questions. It\u2019s me. El Rushbo. <\/p>\n

It does give us some insight into Michelle Obama\u2019s comments, though, does it not? I think it matters. She goes to the church. She\u2019s been mad for a long time, and the church has only made her madder. I\u2019m telling you, she wasn\u2019t proud of her country until when? ‘Til this presidential campaign came along and Obama tried to pass over that by saying, ‘What are you trying to say, that he\u2019s unpatriotic?\u2019 Well, her comments certainly reflect the views of her pastor. Her pastor\u2019s not proud of the country. Her pastor hates the country! Let me tell you something, folks. It is clear that Senator Obama is not being forthright. I\u2019ll drop the wife. I don\u2019t care about the wife. I just think there\u2019s a reason for the attitude that she has. Senator Obama is the one running. He\u2019s not being forthright at all. He\u2019s spinning now. Nobody\u2019s ‘cherry-picking\u2019 anything. He\u2019s spinning. This pastor\u2019s record is full of hate and race-baiting. That\u2019s who he is. That\u2019s what he preached. And the kind of responses we\u2019re getting from Obama are simply not adequate. They are not adequate. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s running for president! The more he responds the way he is currently responding, the more questions it raises about his ability to lead the nation. He\u2019s got a 40-year career of this, is the point. He leads a double life. He\u2019s got two lives. He\u2019s got the life before he decided to run for president — a year and a half ago, or two years — and he\u2019s got the decades of life prior to that, and that life we\u2019re not really going to be told much about. We\u2019re supposed to look at only the last two years of Obama. But you\u2019ve spent, Senator Obama, 20 years following Jeremiah Wright. See, it\u2019s Obama who\u2019s doing the cherry-picking. It isn\u2019t us. Obama is trying to carve out phrases here and there where he says he disagrees with his pastor; justifying his statements about Israel, for instance, or concocting phone contexts for the statements. He\u2019s not made a clean break from this racist hatemonger. He\u2019s got him on his campaign staff in some sort of advisor role. His association with this pastor runs very, very deep. <\/p>\n

Let me put a fine point on it, ladies and gentlemen. This was Obama\u2019s spiritual advisor. The idea that this is guilt by association is a disgraceful, transparent attempt to dismiss racial hatred — and I see some of these Democrat operatives on cable TV, willing to sell out their own principles and values in defense of this racism in order to propel Obama\u2019s campaign further down the road. This is what they are doing with this kind of defense, make no mistake about it: selling out their own principles and values in defense of this racism. Any pundit, any pundit who says that this is nothing more than ‘guilt by association,\u2019 when this pastor was and is Obama\u2019s spiritual advisor and leader, is destroying their reputations. They\u2019re excusing racism. They\u2019re excusing hatred and anti-Semitism, because that\u2019s what Obama\u2019s pastor preaches. Let me suggest, ladies and gentlemen, the kind of hate that Pastor Wright was preaching and that he represents is the kind of radicalism we denounce, the kind of hijacking of religion that we denounce <\/p>\n

I am saying that somebody who abuses his position and the Bible to preach hate and racism and anti-Semitism, is to be thoroughly denounced. He is using Christianity to promote personal views that are unconscionable, totally antithetical to Christian values and beliefs, and the idea that Obama selected this church because of this pastor, because of his message — why else would he have chosen this church? — is no small matter. And just because the liberal media ignore it, doesn\u2019t mean the people of this country should. Obama is asking for our votes. He\u2019s asking us to follow him. He\u2019s asking us to allow him to lead the nation. He is asking for such authority over our country and the future and the well-being of our families and society. Well, when somebody asks for that kind of power, you damn well know we are going to dig in to who the man is that we are thinking of investing that power. Alarms are going off here, and if the Drive-By Media won\u2019t do its job, that\u2019s their problem. I can handle it. <\/p>\n

(playing of Thank the Lord Rush Limbaugh\u2019s On) <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Obama\u2019s spokesman, a guy named Bill Burton, has put out a statement. Let me read the statement to you people. I have it here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. ‘Senator Obama deplores divisive statements,\u2019 other than those he agrees with in which he sends them $22,500 — I\u2019m sorry. Not part of the statement. Let me start again. ‘Senator Obama deplores divisive statements whether they come from his supporters, the supporters of his opponent talk radio, or anywhere else.\u2019 Divisive statements in talk radio? How do you squeeze that in there? By the way, it was Senator Obama, February 16th, 2008, Founders Day gala, Democrat Party of Wisconsin, he said this.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Don\u2019t tell me words don\u2019t matter. I have a dream. Just words. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Just words. We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Just words, just speeches.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Words mean things. Words matter. No, no, no, except in the case of the pastor, in which case he\u2019s a crazy uncle, he\u2019s been cherry-picked, he\u2019s got a 40-year career out there, and just tries to be provocative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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