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RUSH: I want to get to the Wall Street Journal op-ed today that I told you was coming yesterday. We\u2019ve linked to it at RushLimbaugh.com, if you haven\u2019t seen it. I want to thank everybody who has written me kudos about this, not just you from the audience, but several friends of mine in the conservative media, just all over the place, the response has been heartwarming. The real bottom line, I\u2019ll tell you what I think this is. The purpose of this Spanish-language ad was in part to distort what I had said and what McCain\u2019s views on illegal immigration are. But I actually think that there was an attempt by the Obama people — and this is not my ego speaking — I\u2019m analyzing this politically. I really think that part of what they hoped was that McCain would race to the microphones and denounce me, thereby marginalizing me as a commentator, participant, what have you, in the remaining days of the election. This is why the rapid response. I had to go to the airport, four o\u2019clock wheels up on Wednesday afternoon for Austin, and I was responding to these reporters and getting the truth out there. <\/p>\n

<\/a>We actually started it before the program was over. We started researching here what I had actually said and how it had been lifted out of context. We found the Morning Update from 2006. It took us a little while to find it, the NAFTA comments, a transcript of a radio show in 1993 responding to a caller. But it wasn\u2019t until I was in the air on the way to Austin that I was able to get this information to these reporters. We were doing e-mails and firing all this stuff out at 49,000 feet, folks, and I got the computer out there, and HR, he\u2019s going with me, and he\u2019s sitting to my left, and every time we got a favorable response at Politico or Jake Tapper, whatever, I said, ‘Okay, this is working. Our version of this is getting out there now.\u2019 A lot of people don\u2019t think rapid response is called for because it\u2019s defensive. Well, sometimes if they\u2019re lying about you, it depends on the degree and what\u2019s happening, what the stakes are. In this case I couldn\u2019t sit around and let this go because I\u2019ve been through this too much. The whole distortion of the Donovan McNabb thing, the Michael J. Fox situation, both of those are fabulous examples of exactly what Obama tried here, and this is a tactic of the left and I\u2019ve been used to it because I\u2019ve been victimized by it so damn much I can recognize it before it even shows up. <\/p>\n

So when I saw this ad, I\u2019m sitting here, ‘Wait a minute, I didn\u2019t say that. I know I didn\u2019t say that this way,\u2019 just knew it. So the research began and we were able to dig it out. Folks, it\u2019s paramountly obvious here. Any candidate like Barack Obama who employs the tactics of the old segregationists of the fifties and sixties is unworthy of the presidency. Barack Obama is stoking racism. He personally is doing it. And of course he knows it well. One of his mentors is a flaming, out-of-control, reactionary, radical racist Jeremiah Wright. He and his wife have learned it well. They know exactly how to do it, and he got his training as a Chicago street thug, community organizer. He gets people out of the way. He has a history of getting his opponents off the ballot or out of the way. So anyway, all well that ends well. We even have some Drive-By Media commentary on this. I\u2019ll show you the value of rapid response. Last night, Hardball, a montage of correspondent David Shuster\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

SHUSTER: Obama, though, is also running a false ad, and this one is on Spanish television. (speaking Spanish) The spot quotes Rush Limbaugh saying Mexicans are stupid and unqualified. The narrator then says John McCain and his Republican friends have two faces, one that lies to get your vote and another that continues the failed policies of George Bush. The problem is that John McCain and Rush Limbaugh don\u2019t agree on the issue of comprehensive immigration reform. And today a McCain campaign spokesperson said, ‘It is offensive and dishonest for Barack Obama to lie.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, in that case Shuster does not get the truth out about how my comments were lifted and taken out of context, but he does get right that McCain and I don\u2019t have any agreement on this issue at all other than, you know, as I write in the piece I\u2019m gratified that McCain has now come out and said that he\u2019s for securing the borders first before trying anything else. This is Howie Kurtz last night on CNN.<\/p>\n

KURTZ: The commercial talks about intolerance, making Hispanics feel marginalized in this country we love so much. But he puts up quotes about Rush Limbaugh about, ‘stupid and unskilled Mexicans.\u2019 But the Arizona Senator bucked his own party in pushing legislation to create a path to citizenship for those here illegally, and the Limbaugh comments are tape out of context. During the NAFTA debate 15 years ago, he wasn\u2019t talking about immigrants, he was saying that uneducated and unskilled Americans would lose their jobs to stupid and unskilled Mexicans working in Mexico, and Limbaugh, by the way, was one of McCain\u2019s loudest critics during the primaries.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So they\u2019re nailing this ad. The bottom line is they\u2019re nailing this ad. Last night, CNN, Anderson Cooper 180 talking with Candy Crowley. ‘Spanish-language ads linking McCain and Limbaugh have been directly pointed out as being unfair.\u2019<\/p>\n

CROWLEY: Absolutely, and — and directly wrong. I mean there have been several people that have looked at this ad and compared it to the actual record. Rush Limbaugh was taken out of context, the tie between Rush Limbaugh and John McCain is nonexistent, and yet that\u2019s what this ad is.<\/p>\n

COOPER: Yeah, as I recall, Rush Limbaugh was not a big fan of John McCain for a long time, as I recall.<\/p>\n

CROWLEY: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, so this is why rapid response works. Here\u2019s last night Wolf Blitzer, elitist member of the media, as described by Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, talking with Buffalo Bill Bennett, and Wolf said, ‘It\u2019s a pretty tough ad.\u2019 (interruption) Well, Buffalo\u2019s in part of his e-mail address. Like I have a friend named Al, and his e-mail address, Uncle Big Al, whatever and so forth. A couple I know, Penny and Richard, they call themselves ‘Penrich.\u2019 That\u2019s what I call them. If you\u2019re going to have an e-mail address that has that, then that\u2019s how I\u2019m going to address you. Anyway, here Bill Bennett, and Wolf said, ‘It\u2019s a pretty tough ad basically suggesting that McCain and Limbaugh are now partners in this anti-immigration mood out there. It\u2019s a pretty tough ad.\u2019<\/p>\n

BENNETT: There are two people who had diametrically opposed views on immigration. It was Rush Limbaugh and John McCain. To be linking those two, this was probably Rush Limbaugh\u2019s least favorite presidential candidate. So I mean I know people love to hate Rush Limbaugh, my friend, but this is scurrilous and ridiculous.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They also had The Forehead last night, Paul Begala with Blitzer and this is what Begala said.<\/p>\n

BEGALA: Limbaugh and McCain had opposed views, and that is true, but now McCain has come round to the Limbaugh point of view. Apparently Limbaugh, since the passing of Jerry Falwell, is the most important person in the Republican Party, it\u2019s perfectly fair because fact is today, because of pressure from the right and Limbaugh, McCain has the same position on immigration as Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He does not. But here\u2019s a campaign operative, The Forehead, doing what campaign operatives do, and that\u2019s rip McCain. There\u2019s no similarity to McCain and me on the immigration issue. One thing he has moderated on is he\u2019s for open boarders now, securing the border, rather, before starting anything else. But anyway, let\u2019s see. Well, one more. Here\u2019s Contessa Brewer of MSNBC talking to Democrat strategerist Keith Boykin. Now, this is another lib defending the ad even though he can\u2019t understand it.<\/p>\n

BREWER: Obama\u2019s campaign is trying to tie talker, radio talker Rush Limbaugh and John McCain to the same immigration policies. So here it is in Spanish, trying to reach out no another pivotal bloc of voters, and Keith, it\u2019s wrong. Rush Limbaugh and John McCain do not have at all the same stance on immigration.<\/p>\n

BOYKIN: Well, I have to say, I couldn\u2019t hear the ad because it was in Spanish but I\u2019ll tell you this much, John McCain\u2019s position on immigration has changed. He flip-flopped on the issue. Last year he was in favor of an immigration bill that this year he said he wouldn\u2019t even vote for. So I can\u2019t say that ad is wrong because we don\u2019t know where John McCain is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is not what he said. He said he would vote for it again but he knows that it doesn\u2019t have a chance. He has not moderated on this but he\u2019s trying to say that he has. It isn\u2019t gonna work, none of this is gonna work and on Monday, just to let you know, all of this that I have said, monologues, the 2006 Morning Update from which they lifted the quotes out of context, we\u2019re going to have a Spanish-speaking gentleman say everything I have said about this on Monday in Spanish, not just to the four states Obama\u2019s running this pathetic ad, but across the fruited plain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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