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RUSH: Now, one thing — I want to just get rid of this. I don\u2019t care whether Obama was ever in a pew when Reverend Wright said what he said. I don\u2019t care whether Obama never heard it. Because I don\u2019t believe it. He didn\u2019t have to be there to know what this guy was talking about. He knew him for 20 years, and we\u2019re falling for a smokescreen here. If you get sucked into this notion that, ‘Well, Obama was never in church. He might never heard it,\u2019 you\u2019re being led down the path. The thing is, the New York Times has reported that the Obama campaign ‘disinvited Reverend J. Wright from delivering the public invocation at Obama\u2019s candidacy announcement.\u2019 Now, we all know that Reverend J. Wright was publicly disinvited. But Wright, Reverend J. Wright talking to the New York Times, said, ‘Fifteen minutes before it I got a call from Barack. One of his members had talked him into uninviting me.\u2019 In a phone call with Reverend Wright, Obama ‘cited a Rolling Stone story that was titled, ‘The Radical Roots of Barack Obama,\u2019 and according to Reverend Wright, Obama said to him, ‘Look, you can get kind of rough in the sermons, so we\u2019ve decided that it\u2019s best for you not to be out there in public.”<\/p>\n

So he knew! It\u2019s in the New York Times. Reverend Wright, in essence, confirms what Obama is trying to deny. He did it inadvertently. He\u2019s not angry at trying to sabotage Barack, but he clearly has undermined Barack\u2019s whole premise that he never heard it because he quotes Obama as telling him, ‘Look, you\u2019re kind of out there. You\u2019re getting kind of rough in the sermons.\u2019 So, anyway, it\u2019s a smokescreen, and we ought not fall for it. Also, David Axelrod, who is running Obama\u2019s campaign — this is from Byron York at The Corner at National Review — says that ‘A ‘Major\u2019 Reason Wright Didn\u2019t Speak at Obama\u2019s Announcement Was…It Was Too Cold\u2019 out there. Axelrod told reporters that the weather was one of the reasons Rev. Jeremiah Wright did not speak at Obama\u2019s presidential candidacy announcement last year in Springfield, Illinois. When asked on a conference call why Wright did not speak, as had been planned, Axelrod said, ‘Part of what happened was that it was seven degrees in Springfield that day, and we truncated the program, and that was certainly a major part of the motivation there.\u2019 When a reporter followed up, asking, ‘So you\u2019re saying that Rev. Wright did not speak because it was too cold?\u2019 Axelrod broadened his answer. ‘That was part of the decision,\u2019 he said. ‘There was no doubt that there was controversy surrounding him, and we didn\u2019t want to make him a target and a distraction on a day when Sen. Obama was going to announce his candidacy.” Why not? I know Obama\u2019s ‘denounced,\u2019 but that may not enough here. He is losing support now among white male voters. That\u2019s the latest polling data. He\u2019s losing support among white male voters, and whoever wants to win the presidency has got to win a majority of white male voters. Obama was in the recording studio over the weekend. <\/p>\n

(playing of Jeremiah Was My Pastor) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Barack Obama, portrayed vocally by ‘white comedian\u2019 Paul Shanklin. There is more footage here of Reverend J. Wright. This is a montage here of sermons between 2001 and 2007 at the Trinity United Church of Christ.<\/p>\n

WRIGHT: The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied! The government lied about Pearl Harbor. (cheering) They knew the Japanese were going to attack. Government\u2019s lied. We\u2019ve got a paranoid group of patriots in power that now, in the interests of homeland stupidity (cheers) — I mean homeland security. The government lied about the Tuskegee experiment. They purposely infected African-American men with syphilis! [snip] ‘Fighting for peace,\u2019 is like raping for virginity. [snip] What\u2019s going on in white America, US of KKKA, black men turning on black men. That is fighting the wrong enemy. You both are the primary targets in an oppressive society, that sees both of you as a dangerous threat. [snip] We cannot see how what we are doing is the same thing Al-Qaeda is doing under a different color flag (cheers and applause), and guess what else? If they don\u2019t find them some weapons of mass destruction, they gonna do that like the LAPD and plant some weapons of mass destruction. (wild cheering)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that congregation is going nuts during all this, folks. It is just pure hate-liberalism. You can call it racism. It\u2019s got all of the components of liberalism. In fact, Bill Sammon in his book Meet the Next President, divulges one of the philosophies of the Trinity United Church of Christ. Reverend J. Wright ‘advocated a redistribution of wealth that went beyond socialism. The congregation was required to embrace ‘economic parity\u2019 and disavow the pursuit of ‘middleclassness.” This, folks, is the church that was instrumental in bringing Barack Obama to Christ. This was the church advocating radical wealth redistribution, ‘economic parity.\u2019 Everybody has an equal amount of stuff regardless who earns it. All of this rage and anger… Actually, it\u2019s not that foreign. You can find this kind of rage and anger for the last four years on many Democrat blogs, liberal blogs. There is this rage out there, and this congregation was eating this stuff up. I just refuse to believe… You know, Obama can denounce it all he wants. He went on this Friday night damage control tour on TV. He went on all the networks. In fact, let\u2019s listen to a couple of these. CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper 180. Cooper says, ‘I want to ask you why you\u2019ve been listening to this pastor and been close to him for nearly 20 years.\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I have to confess that those are not statements that I ever heard when I was sitting in (pause) the pews, uh, at this church.<\/p>\n

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

OBAMA: Uh, th–this is a church that I have been a member of for 20 years. Uh, this is a well-established, typical historically African-American church on the south side of Chicago with a wonderful set of ministries — and what I have been hearing and had been hearing in church was talk about Jesus, and talk about faith and values. Uh, had I heard those in the church, I would have told Reverend Wright that, uh, you know, that I profoundly disagreed with him, they didn\u2019t reflect my values, and they didn\u2019t reflect my ideals.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s trying to get away with saying he never heard it and so it wasn\u2019t said. Well, when he calls to tell J. Wright he\u2019s not speaking at his presidential announcement — he says, ‘Look, your sermons are kind of rough. You\u2019re getting rough in your sermons\u2019 — he knew exactly what this guy was. Look, Oprah Winfrey used to be a member of this church, and Oprah Winfrey bagged this church back in the late nineties, because she didn\u2019t like what she was hearing from the Reverend J. Wright. This guy knew (and knows to this day, Obama does) exactly what Wright\u2019s all about. He\u2019s his mentor. He\u2019s going to have to treat this in a smarter and more face-straight-up manner here if he\u2019s going to get past this, folks.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We are here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, reviewing the Barack Obama Friday night damage control tour. Here\u2019s another question and answer with Anderson Cooper 180 on CNN. Cooper said, ‘Senator Obama, did you not know — I mean, a couple days after 9\/11 your preacher said, ‘This was America\u2019s chickens coming home to roost,\u2019 the result of what he called American terrorism around the world. I mean, you may not have been there, but you must have heard that he had said these things?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: You know, I confess that I did not hear about this until I started running for president, and then there was a story that was issued in which I strongly objected to these statements and condemned them, and so my belief was that this was something out of the ordinary. Obviously some of these statements indicate that this was happening more frequently, and so I have to strongly condemn the statements that were made. They do not reflect my views or Michelle\u2019s views or probably the views of many people in the church.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ohhh.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: On the other hand, Reverend Wright is somebody who is like an uncle or a family member who you may strongly object to what they have to say, but, as he\u2019s about to retire, you know, I have no intention of leaving the church itself.<\/p>\n

RUSH: First thing I notice, other than I just don\u2019t believe this, but other than that, the first thing I noticed is that without a TelePromTer this guy does not have the flowing, charismatic cadence of his speeches, where he\u2019s talking about hope and the future and change and so forth. He\u2019s back now to calling the guy crazy uncle. Somebody out there call the Obama camp. I want to solve this, and here\u2019s what you ought to say, Obama. Call David Axelrod, somebody out there I know in the Obama campaign\u2019s gotta be monitoring this show. Here\u2019s how you handle this. You focus on the minister\u2019s hate, because it\u2019s obvious in every sound bite, every bit of footage, this guy hates. He is angry; he is filled with rage; he is anti-America. He hates. And you, Obama, are a uniter, although there\u2019s no evidence of this. Everybody in Obama\u2019s inner circle is mad at everything. His wife\u2019s fit to be tied all the time. This clown, J. Wright, never has what seems to be a reflective sober moment. He just seems to be always just out on the edge about to lose it. And yet we\u2019re told this Obama guy can unite us all and make us forget our horrible past. How in the world can we forget our horrible past when his mentor is living 50 years ago and preaching to his congregation as though this were 50 years ago, and Obama chose this? <\/p>\n

You know, you don\u2019t choose your uncle. You don\u2019t choose your parents. You choose your preacher. You choose your church. So somebody, Obama, Axelrod, somebody out there, you gotta say, ‘Yes, Reverend J. Wright, my uncle, my mentor, whatever, yes, he\u2019s filled with hate, and there\u2019s too much of this in this country, and this is why I want to be president, because I want to get rid of and change the things that lead to this kind of discord in this country. I think it\u2019s horrible that so many Americans in my party feel this way. I think it\u2019s dangerous that so many Americans actually blame their country for these things, and I, as your president, want to change this.\u2019 There\u2019s an easy way of dealing with this, but he\u2019s not doing that. When he\u2019s off the script and doesn\u2019t even have a script, he\u2019s on defense here, and he\u2019s saying things that are going to come back to haunt him later on in the general campaign if he succeeds in getting the nomination. <\/p>\n

But there\u2019s a larger question here. Whether he was in the audience, whether he was sitting in the pew, I can\u2019t believe it took a year for him to find out that his mentor blamed America for 9\/11, chickens coming home to roost. I can\u2019t believe it took him a year to learn that the reverend was out there blaming America for creating the HIV virus to get rid of black people. I think I first heard that on Nightline back when Ted Koppel still ran that show, might have been Mr. Ice T. That was funny to watch, Koppel said, ‘Mr. T.\u2019 This is just a mess that he\u2019s making. Reverend J. Wright, my friends, was Obama\u2019s mentor for 20 years. No presidential candidate can belong to a church with a leadership and membership that adheres to such hate, to such an idea that we deserve 9\/11, that we invented the AIDS crisis, or HIV virus, or the government did. Let me do a Geraldine Ferraro. Let\u2019s change the race here. Let\u2019s say he\u2019s a white guy and he\u2019s going to a church, white church where the minister says this kind of stuff. He\u2019s out of the campaign. He is gone. He is fini. No country wants a president who\u2019s a member of a church with this kind of radicalism as its mainstream. <\/p>\n

Now, this Reverend J. Wright was Obama\u2019s mentor for 20 years. Are we supposed to believe, are we supposed to assume that Obama was simply immune to the race baiting of Reverend Wright? That\u2019s asking me too much. You hang around somebody 20 years as a mentor, you choose them because something about them resonates with you and you like them, but all of a sudden you can have boundaries and all this hate and racism simply bounces off of you? Why the hell stick with the church, then, if you\u2019re going to ignore all that, if that didn\u2019t matter? Obama, by the way, is purposely campaigning on character, his character. He is a uniter, we need to get past the old visions, politics of the past, blah, blah, blah, blah, without ever providing evidence of that character. We haven\u2019t seen any evidence of the character. We\u2019ve heard flowery speeches of nothing, delivered greatly. We don\u2019t see any evidence of the character. What we see is that this guy is surrounded by people who are constantly enraged, ticked off about everything, mostly their country. Now we see evidence of his character as exemplified by his choice of church, by his choice of reverend, and we\u2019re supposed to await proof of him being in the pews, when the worst of these things were spewed to the pews? <\/p>\n

The double standard here is Mitt Romney. Here\u2019s a guy whose religion was trashed as a cult. The Drive-By Media did everything they could, there were some on the Republican side — ahem — no need to mention names now because they\u2019re no longer in the race, but they were out there trying to undermine Romney on the base of religion. Romney went out and gave a great speech in Texas about it. We\u2019re supposed to just look past this because Obama wasn\u2019t in the pews when the Reverend J. Wright was spewing this stuff to the people in the pews. Doesn\u2019t matter. This is evidence of his character because he chose this church, he chose this guy to lead him. What do you think a mentor is? Most importantly, and I know I\u2019ve said this a lot of other ways, but I\u2019m going to say it again and use different terms. Church membership is church ‘member\u2019-ship. It\u2019s a community of like-minded believers. You go to a church, it\u2019s not just you and your reverend. You have a like-minded relationship with all the members that you worship with in that church. If some of those members of that church go wacky on you, you want them expelled, or you\u2019ll change churches. If something happens in that church that you don\u2019t agree with, you\u2019ll get out of there. If the rev starts going nuts on you, if the rev starts getting radical, you will leave the church. Obama didn\u2019t leave the church. The rev has always been radical. <\/p>\n

Obama belongs and chose to belong to a community that believes all of this tripe that the Reverend J. Wright spews. He tithed his money in support of this church and its mission. How else, and what else, are we to judge when trying to define Obama\u2019s character? This is stuff of substance far more than these flowery TelePromTered speeches that he gives on hope and the future and change. George W. Bush\u2019s faith, look at him. It puts him in conflict with the unbelievers in our country. In fact, that was the tack back when Romney gave his speech, the Drive-Bys, ‘Well, what about the atheists? He just said he wasn\u2019t going to represent the atheists.\u2019 He was giving a speech about his religion, what is he supposed to do, sit up there and say, ‘You atheists, screw you.\u2019 No, the religion that teaches ‘screw you\u2019 is Obama\u2019s church. Actually, it\u2019s ‘screw us\u2019 \u2019cause they\u2019re screwing us. Or screw them because they\u2019re screwing us. But there\u2019s a desire by the Drive-Bys to mitigate this, minimalize this so that it doesn\u2019t have the impact precisely because it does reflect on the character of Barack Obama. <\/p>\n

Bush, as I was saying, his faith puts him in conflict with unbelievers, but not over issues of faith, but rather in its role in public life. I\u2019m firmly convinced one of the reasons there\u2019s such abject hatred for Bush is because he is very open about his faith, he\u2019s very open that it informs him and guides him, and people hate that. The left hates it. Separation of church and state! Where are those arguments now with the Reverend J. Wright? Obama\u2019s denounced it, of course, but Reverend J. Wright\u2019s faith puts him in conflict with believers, but not over issues of faith, but rather issues of race. This church is separatist and divisive, and it is the church of the man who claims best qualified to unite us?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, who knows what the future is going to bring? Nobody has the slightest idea. We might all be disappointed as hell one morning in November, but I\u2019ll tell you: right now, these past few weeks, more fun than I\u2019ve had in a long time, and the next couple-three weeks, all the way up to the… Well, I mean the next two or three months are going to be a gas, too. This is just exciting. Here\u2019s more Barack Obama on Anderson Cooper. Cooper finally says, ‘But, I mean, uncles are blood relatives you\u2019re kind of stuck with at family gatherings, even when they say outrageous things. You can\u2019t get rid of them. You can walk out of a church. You can walk up, go to a pastor and say, ‘This is wrong.”<\/p>\n

OBAMA: And as I said, Anderson, if I had heard any of these statements, I probably would have walked out, and I probably would have told Reverend Wright that they were wrong. Uh, but they were not statements that I heard when I was in church.<\/p>\n

COOPER: So no one in the church ever said to you, ‘Man, last week you missed this sermon. Reverend Wright said this,\u2019 or —<\/p>\n

OBAMA: No.<\/p>\n

COOPER: I mean, I think I read in your book that you used to listen to tapes of Reverend Wright when you were in Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I did. I understand.<\/p>\n

COOPER: So you had no idea? <\/p>\n

OBAMA: I did not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh) Well, you know, this is just tough to believe. He admits listening to tapes of Reverend Wright, but he didn\u2019t know this stuff is going on — and nobody can prove that he knew it because nobody can prove he was there. I hope the Clintons have videotape of Barack in the church, because there\u2019s a controversy. Apparently, there\u2019s a NewsMax story from a year ago that says he was in church on July 22nd of last year, but Obama\u2019s been able to refute that by saying he was at a National Council of La Raza speech at 1:30 in the afternoon in Miami. It\u2019s possible he could have gone to the seven a.m. service I suppose, and gotten down there in a private plane, but seems like he\u2019s got an alibi on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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