{"id":29601,"date":"2008-06-16T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:45:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:45:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:45:04","slug":"eib_callers_on_the_whitey_rumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/06\/16\/eib_callers_on_the_whitey_rumor\/","title":{"rendered":"EIB Callers on the Whitey Rumor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: We start in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with Alan. Thank you, sir. Glad you waited.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Right thinking dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: As always, Rush. I just wanted to make a quick follow-up to the rumor concerning the, as I call it, the not-so-charming Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it certainly seems possible that the whole thing was orchestrated by the left to impugn conservatives. What I haven\u2019t heard anyone say is that it\u2019s believable. If you think about it, it would never work if it wasn\u2019t believable. If someone tried to spread a rumor about Barbara Bush ranting about black people using the N-word, no one would buy it, but in this case no one\u2019s putting that out there that it\u2019s preposterous.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, now, let me explain something to you. What you have just done with your comment has put your host in great jeopardy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s not the intention, of course.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, of course, it wasn\u2019t. Of course, you\u2019re trying to share an honest opinion using your First Amendment right to do so. But if I agree with you, if I agree with you and say, ‘You know what, Alan, you\u2019re right, that\u2019s the reason it really had legs is \u2019cause it\u2019s totally believable,\u2019 then the next story that Nedra Pickler at AP writes would be, ‘Limbaugh doesn\u2019t care if tape exists, he knows she probably talks that way anyway,\u2019 and then that would be the next series of stories to keep this thing alive. If I disagree with you on this, then I do a disservice to my audience because obviously you have a point here. You do have a point. Barbara Bush — and I know Barbara Bush — and you\u2019re absolutely right, she would not for one thing take the pulpit of a church, and number two, she wouldn\u2019t start running around using the N-word and all that. But the reason that you say it\u2019s believable — let me ask you, why do you think it\u2019s believable, rather than me — ha-ha — why do you think it\u2019s believable?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s just the impression that she gives. <\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s the impression? Be specific. What\u2019s the impression that she gives?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I won\u2019t use the word angry, I\u2019ll use the word radical, how\u2019s that? Just from her speeches and her writings. I didn\u2019t dive into her whole thesis, it was too long, but I did download it and look it over, and just their background, I mean just when she gets up and speaks, it seems to fit her persona or personality.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean she comes off less than content?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I mean exactly. I mean you\u2019ve heard her, anybody paying attention has heard the way she talks.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You work for the AP, by the way, Alan? I just have to ask this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, this is not a setup. Personally I wish it was true if it could derail Obama, but whether or not it is, no one can deny that it\u2019s believable.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Limbaugh caller says he hopes rumor true. Limbaugh agrees. (laughing) All right, Alan, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. Thanks much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Love it. Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. Here\u2019s Dave in Pinole, California, nice to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, God bless you, my brother.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, my brother.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have an observation on this Fox interview with Beckel.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Which one?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the one regarding this supposed tape of Michelle —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The one he was worried about the shoe dropping on her the next day, the one he was really, really worried about?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Fox pretended like they didn\u2019t know about it, but the follow-up question to Beckel was, ‘Is this bigger than the thesis?\u2019 Now, what thesis were they talking about?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Bigger than the feces?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The thesis, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, the thesis, the thesis, oh!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thesis. Thesis, thesis. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Close. Very, very close. Okay, you\u2019re right. So the question was, is it your understanding this is bigger than say a college thesis paper?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct. And that was making reference I\u2019m sure to Michelle\u2019s college thesis, because that was one that had been bantered around a couple months ago.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And of course our old buddy Beckel said, significantly so.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So your point is that Beckel is lying when he goes on Fox last night and says he had nothing to do with this, that he was talking about an Obama, a Barack Obama rumor that he was trying to shut down?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Nah, he knew about it, and so did Fox, by their follow-up question to him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. You\u2019re just illustrating the point, then. Everybody knew this. Everybody was talking about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes. And also I have a T-shirt for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That would be: Change Diapers, not America. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Well, they are nannies, aren\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thanks. Appreciate that, Dave. We\u2019ll go to Nashville next. Stephanie, hi. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, dittos from Nashville.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thanks very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So me and my husband and son were driving back from Disney World, so we had a lot of time to listen to the radio, and we were listening to another good friend, Sean Hannity, and he was talking about not being able to confirm or deny that there was a tape, so we thought, well, if we want to really find out the truth we\u2019ll listen to Rush, and we heard you the morning that you were saying that I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s a tape or not, but maybe there\u2019s one, and maybe she said ‘why\u2019d he.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So you know I started listening a few extra days in the morning — I have to go to work unfortunately after the 11 o\u2019clock hour, so we just kind of were led to believe after listening to you for a few days that there probably really wasn\u2019t a tape, or, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is interesting. So what you are saying, if I understand this, after listening to me, your ultimate maximum source, you concluded there wasn\u2019t a tape?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Unfortunately, yes. I mean not unfortunate for listening to you, but I mean we were kind of hoping there was one too so we could knock this whole thing out of the ballpark.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, right, I understand that. (laughing) <\/p>\n

CALLER: And I kept telling my husband everything morning that, you know, it must not be true because I\u2019ve been listening to Rush and he just will not bring up this tape.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, see, there you have it. This is great. That is fabulous of you, Stephanie, because here are regular listeners to the EIB Network concluding there was not a tape after listening to me not mention this for all of these days prior to the day that I did. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Ron in Wichita. Hello, sir, glad you waited. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, Rush. Regarding the Bob Beckel comment regarding the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — rumor that he\u2019d heard that he thought was really a big threat. You know about the quickest way to tell when somebody is lying is when they overemphasize their statement, a little bit too much drama involved. The first time I heard Bob Beckel say that, the first thing that rang in my head is: Hillary Clinton supporter. Somebody starts a rumor; Bob Beckel substantiates the rumor for the benefit of Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but the thing is, I think — and I\u2019m going to have to double-check this — that Beckel\u2019s in the tank for Obama.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think Beckel has been in the tank for Obama for a while, but I\u2019m not sure. That\u2019s my memory. I\u2019m going to have to check that. You could be right if my memory is wrong. If I\u2019m right, he had another purpose, and his purpose was specifically to rope in conservatives to spread the thing around using his imprimatur as credibility for it —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure, sure. You\u2019re substantiating the rumor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — thereby allowing the Obama camp to then walk around trying to discredit all these conservatives. In other words, it was a trap. It was a trap that Beckel was laying. I think that\u2019s what was going on. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Laguna Beach, California, Gene, glad you waited, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, you are the man. I do want to say about this whitey tape, what do I care about somebody saying something about whitey, Michelle Obama? She\u2019s made so many horrible statements about change, Barack will make you change, first time being proud of our country, America\u2019s a mean country. I think this is all a Democratic effort to inoculate her so that the statements that she\u2019s already made, everything will be dismissed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re exactly right, but there\u2019s another step to this. Not only is it to inoculate her and Barack, it is to frighten and intimidate people like me from refraining from criticizing her any, at all, in the future, for fear that the hell of the Drive-By Media and the Obama campaign will rain down on us. What they don\u2019t understand, what I\u2019ve tried to tell them and they still won\u2019t understand, the people in the Drive-By Media did not make me. The AP had nothing to do with building me up and making people interested in me. I did that. The AP can\u2019t destroy me. Obama can\u2019t destroy me, not with news coverage, anyway. Fairness Doctrine, you know, restrictive on free speech rights and Obama could do that. But the media is not going to be able to. They\u2019re not going to intimidate anybody here. In fact, the AP — get this; I just read this — the AP has just issued a new policy setting guidelines on bloggers for what they can use on their blogs from AP. <\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s being disguised as, ‘Hey, you bloggers aren\u2019t paying us for this, the fair usage, you\u2019re vastly exceeding what\u2019s available for fair usage,\u2019 but this is an all-out war now. The bloggers are probably, ‘Screw you, ABC, we\u2019re not going to mention you, period, then.\u2019 Well, that\u2019s not going to go for me. I\u2019m going to keep mentioning AP, but they\u2019re not going to intimidate me. I think that, in addition to inoculating everybody or her, Gene, they\u2019re trying to also intimidate people into just not talking about her. They know they\u2019ve got a problem with her. They know they\u2019ve got a huge problem. She just goes off the handle and says things and they don\u2019t know what it\u2019s going to be next. They are surrounding her with a new staff of women. They just hired Patti Solis Doyle from the Clinton campaign. How do you handle Michelle (My Belle)? You surround her. Democrat operative Stephanie Cutter joining the Obama campaign, senior advisor, chief of staff to Michelle Obama. Cutter, a longtime aid to Senator Kennedy, served as communications director to Senator Kerry during his 2004 presidential campaign. Her role underscores a growing concern with the campaign and among outside allies that Michelle is becoming a lightning rod for the opposition. <\/p>\n

So they basically surrounded her with a woman that\u2019s going to put duct tape on her mouth. And whenever they want her to speak, they\u2019re going to give her the script, and say, ‘Do you promise to stick to it?\u2019 And if Michelle (My Belle), nods her head yes, then they\u2019ll rip the duct tape off and they\u2019ll send her out to speak. They know that they have a big problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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