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RUSH: Fantastic, ladies and gentlemen, fantastic. The Bamster\u2019s hope and change are evaporating in a steam cloud over the US Capitol. Roland Burris, subject of a piece today in the Chicago Tribune. The headline of the piece in the Chicago Tribune today: ‘Filling Obama\u2019s Seat Becomes Test of Authentic Blackness.\u2019 The Drive-By Media once again exploring the concept of ‘authentic blackness.\u2019 Greetings, my friends, great to have you here. Rush Limbaugh back for day two after the vacation. We are here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Telephone number, 800-282-2882, if you want to appear on the program today. <\/p>\n

Roland Burris duly appointed by Governor Blagojevich in Illinois, shows up at the US Senate, the secretary of the Senate turns him away. <\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t think so. <\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t think so. <\/p>\n

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Not today <\/p>\n

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Just one problem. Couldn\u2019t get in the front door. <\/p>\n

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Roland Burris, duly appointed, I mean Blagojevich is out there acting as governor, he\u2019s signing legislation, he\u2019s holding meetings, he\u2019s working, so why can\u2019t he appoint the next senator from Illinois? The Democrats are on thin ice, ladies and gentlemen, constitutionally here. A lot of legal scholars are suggesting that Harry Reid and the Democrats are on thin ice. What a picture, ladies and gentlemen, this morning. Of course the cameras are not allowed where the confrontation took place. Well, it wasn\u2019t a confrontation, but Roland Burris shows up, presents his credentials, the secretary of the Senate says these are not valid and sends him packing back down the steps, and as Moe Lane who is a blogger at RedState.com wondered last night, even if they let him in, will they let him use the water fountains and the restroom inside the Senate? <\/p>\n

Folks, this is an amazing picture. You have Roland Burris, you had two of his attorneys, all three of them African-American, you had a troupe of people walking from the Capitol to the site of a press conference just down the street with the Capitol in the background, and it\u2019s mind-boggling. A white Democrat Senate leader, Dingy Harry, refusing to seat&hellip; hell, Denny\u2019s would seat the guy, but Harry Reid refusing to seat Roland Burris and his contingent of African-American supporters. Can you imagine if Dingy Harry were a Republican, ladies and gentlemen? It is great to have you here. Senator Durbin, by the way, offered his office to Roland Burris so that Burris would not have to go to Denny\u2019s. The Illinois secretary of state, Jesse White, has refused to sign the papers making all this — (interruption) Jesse White, the Illinois secretary of state Jesse White — (interruption) I missed that — (laughing) — we could not write the script for this. <\/p>\n

‘Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White has refused to sign, saying the appointment\u2019s invalid because of the federal corruption investigation surrounding Blagojevich and what prosecutors describe as his efforts to sell the Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack –‘ oh, by the way. Folks, I got a whole Stack of Stuff here today. It\u2019s just so sad for the Bamster, it\u2019s just so sad, all of these distractions. There\u2019s a headline: ‘Democrat Factions Could Stall Obama Agenda.\u2019 Aweee! And it\u2019s all such BS. There\u2019s not a word of this that is true. I will analyze this in great detail as the program unfolds before your eyes and ears today. Meanwhile, back to Senator Turban from Illinois, he said Roland Burris is welcome to Washington, he\u2019s welcome to come to my office, but he couldn\u2019t possibly be anticipating any official action until at least his papers are filed. So Dick Turban wanted to make sure that Burris did not have to go to Denny\u2019s to get seated, offered his office. I don\u2019t think Burris took him up on it. Burris went out and did his press conference. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Roland Burris this morning in Washington, DC, after being refused admittance into the Supreme White Man\u2019s Club of this country: the United States Senate.<\/p>\n

BURRIS: My name is Roland Burris, the junior senator from the state of Illinois. I presented my credentials to the Secretary of the Senate, and advised that my credentials were not in order and I would not be accepted and I will not be seated and I will not be permitted on the floor. And therefore I am not seeking to have any type of confrontation. I will now consult with my attorneys, and we will determine what our next step will be. Thank you all very much, and God bless each and every one of you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: On the CBS Early Show today, co-host Maggie Rodriguez interviewed Roland Burris. She said, ‘Legal or not, is this really the way you want to reach the Senate, against the objections of the senators that you\u2019ll be working with — even the president-elect, who\u2019s hoping to come in smoothly and avoid drama?\u2019<\/p>\n

BURRIS: Well, no, I\u2019m certainly not looking for drama, they\u2019re causing the drama. My appointment is legal. There\u2019s nothing that says (laughs) that there\u2019s something wrong with Roland Burris. Are you saying that there\u2019s something wrong with me? I\u2019m qualified. I was elected four times in my state. I mean there\u2019s nothing wrong with Roland Burris and there\u2019s nothing wrong with this appointment.<\/p>\n

RODRIGUEZ: Everyone has — has —<\/p>\n

BURRIS: Pardon me. If that\u2019s to say something wrong with the governor, then you all have to deal with that, but the governor is still the governor of Illinois and still has the power. As a matter of fact, the governor just signed a directive that Rahm Emanuel\u2019s seat will be filled by special election, and the secretary of state signed that document. What\u2019s the difference?<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s exactly right, folks. Blagojevich is on solid ground here and nobody from Illinois has been able to stop Blagojevich from being governor. He may have been arrested, but he hasn\u2019t been indicted. He hasn\u2019t been convicted of anything whatsoever. Harry Reid, these guys in the Senate are on thin constitutional ice on this, depending on how far Burris wants to push this. Now, the question from Maggie Rodriguez, ‘Is this really the way that you want to reach the Senate, against the objections of the senators…?\u2019 I mean, they are so in the tank! They are just so in the tank. ‘What are you trying to do here, Burris? Don\u2019t you have the sense to go away? Don\u2019t you understand we\u2019re trying to get Obama inaugurated with as few distractions as possible here? Why didn\u2019t you go the way of Bill Richardson and just slink away and disappear?\u2019 And Burris, continuing to give the Drive-Bys fits, says, ‘There\u2019s nothing wrong with me.\u2019 Last night in Washington DC, on Capitol Hill, congressional Democrats held a press conference. An unidentified reporter said, ‘Senator Reid, tell us what you plan to do when Roland Burris shows up on the steps of the Capitol tomorrow.\u2019<\/p>\n

REID: Well, of course, Roland Burris has not been certified by the State of Illinois. Uh, impeachment proceedings are going to start forthwith in Illinois. We\u2019ll see what happens there. I\u2019ve been advised they\u2019ll be completed sometime early in February. But we\u2019ll wait until we see if there is going to be certification from the State of Illinois.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: All right, now, we\u2019re going to skip number five, Mister Broadcast Engineer. Let\u2019s go to the Chicago Trib today. You know, this is amazing — especially now, folks, when you remember the controversy of last week, when I wasn\u2019t even here yet making worldwide news on the BBC, CNN, and every other worldwide network. They just could not wait to run their biased, selective template on the whole ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro” controversy. So now with the Burris appointment up there causing this giant evaporation of hope and change, and it really is hope and change evaporating in a steam cloud over the US Capitol. Ladies and gentlemen, the Chicago Tribune\u2019s Dawn Turner Trice. Here\u2019s the first line of her piece in the Chicago Tribune today: ‘What does it mean to be authentically black?\u2019 <\/line> <\/line> This is a liberal reporterette for a liberal newspaper once again raising this question. This was about Roland Burris. They asked this question of Obama all during 2007. It was the Democrats and the media that were bringing race into all of this! It\u2019s the Democrats who have brought race into the seating of Roland Burris, even though they deny it. ‘When Democratic US Rep. Bobby Rush said last week that an African-American should fill President-elect Barack Obama\u2019s US Senate seat, he didn\u2019t mean just any black person. He meant an ‘authentic\u2019 black person. It\u2019s fair to say that a Condoleezza Rice, Clarence Thomas or even an Alan Keyes-type wouldn\u2019t suffice. [Bobby] Rush meant a black person, such as former Illinois Atty. Gen. Roland Burris, who has a certain street cred, someone considered ‘black enough.” This is the Chicago Tribune. These are their words, not the words of any conservative here. <\/line> <\/line> ‘In 2000, when [Bobby] Rush and Obama competed for Rush\u2019s congressional seat, [Bobby] Rush said his opponent wasn\u2019t black enough or authentic. This question of authenticity seems to follow Obama. In recent weeks, we\u2019ve witnessed the controversy over former Tennessee GOP Chairman Chip Saltsman who — in a bid to become chairman of the Republican National Committee — sent committee members a Christmas CD that contained the parody song ‘Barack the Magic Negro.\u2019 The song … was inspired by a 2007 Los Angeles Times op-ed piece, written by a biracial film critic, who tried to explain Obama\u2019s appeal to white voters by deconstructing the fabled ‘Magic Negro.\u2019 In cinematic terms, the ‘Magic Negro,\u2019 is a character who\u2019s just ‘white enough\u2019 in that he\u2019s neither violent, threatening nor hypersexual. His primary function is to save the white protagonist and assuage ‘white guilt.\u2019 <\/line> <\/line> ‘Think: Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, Will Smith,\u2019 and then they go on and print excerpts of ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro.” Tribune: ‘My point has less to do with the song (satire is satire) than the idea that the ‘Magic Negro\u2019 raises the question: What does it mean to be authentically black, or authentically black and male?\u2019 This is the Chicago Tribune, Dawn Turner Trice, bringing up the subject again. ‘For many, Obama flies in the face of such ‘authenticity.\u2019 He\u2019s neither an Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson nor a Bobby Rush-type. What frustrates me,\u2019 she says, ‘is that the prevailing ‘type\u2019 for black men is so distressingly narrow that any black man who stands outside the ‘type\u2019 is considered the exception or inauthentic by some whites and some blacks.\u2019 No, no, no, no, Ms. Trice! They\u2019re considered the exception or inauthentic by liberals and Democrats.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want to finish sharing with you portions here of the piece in the Chicago Tribune here today by Dawn Turner Trice, ‘Filling Obama\u2019s Seat Becomes Test of ‘Authentic\u2019 Blackness.\u2019 She writes, ‘What frustrates me is that the prevailing ‘type\u2019 for black men is so distressingly narrow that any black man who stands outside the ‘type\u2019 is considered the exception or inauthentic by some whites and some blacks.\u2019 No, no, no, Ms. Trice, I must reemphasize to you, we don\u2019t care about any of this stuff on the right side of the aisle. You own this issue. The liberal Democrats, white or black, own this whole controversy, if you will, over who is authentic when discussing black people, African-Americans. We would never even think to bring this up. This is not even in our lexicon. We don\u2019t run around and find an inauthentic white person, authentic white, inauthentic female, authentic female. We don\u2019t run around and think this way. You people do. We don\u2019t think inauthentic or authentic terrorist. We think terrorist. <\/p>\n

She says, ‘One cannot deny that there are myriad problems facing some black men.\u2019 Yeah, like Roland Burris. He\u2019s qualified, he\u2019s been constitutionally appointed, and the white Senate leadership of the Democrat Party has shut the door on him. Not even allow him to use the drinking fountains, the restrooms. ‘But the black male type is far more diverse than what\u2019s captured in statistics and in the media. &hellip; Here\u2019s a question: What does it mean to be authentically white? Consider our economic meltdown. A bunch of white men were at the helm of government and private companies, now brought to their knees by shoddy dealings. Nobody would suggest that the new archetype for the white male is somebody who shouldn\u2019t be in charge of our kids\u2019 piggy banks, let alone facets of a national economy. But whenever there is a grim statistic about a black man, it\u2019s too often used to reaffirm all the negative stereotypes. Sadly, for some, that becomes what\u2019s authentic.\u2019 Again, Ms. Trice, trust me on this — and I speak for conservatives everywhere — we\u2019re just laughing ourselves silly over this. We don\u2019t think this way and we are bamboozled that you get away with it. <\/p>\n

We don\u2019t believe that the whole Democrat Party got away with thinking this way about Obama throughout the 2007 campaign year. Is he black enough? Is he authentic enough? Go talk to the guy who wrote the ‘Magic Negro\u2019 column, he brought it up, and he was not the only one. We are bamboozled that you get away with thinking this way. ‘What\u2019s encouraging,\u2019 she says, ‘is that it appears Americans are beginning to see beyond what it means for a black person to be ‘black enough\u2019 or ‘white enough.” Most Americans don\u2019t think this way, Ms. Trice. This is what we are trying to tell you. It\u2019s a select few extremist liberal racists and others who think this way. You are the ones that practice identity politics. You\u2019re the ones that are having this debate over who\u2019s authentic or not. Therefore, you are the deciders. And apparently to some people, Obama is not authentic, \u2019cause to some people, Roland Burris is but then to other people he\u2019s not. ‘Maybe more of us are starting to examine people on an individual basis,\u2019 she says. ‘Maybe.\u2019 More of us? A lot of us on our side of the aisle, Ms. Trice, have been doing this for decades. But we can\u2019t get away from you narrow-casting everybody and trying to place them in niche categories. <\/p>\n

Look at this. Los Angeles Times: ‘Obama\u2019s Election, Changing the Politics of Race.\u2019 What? Race politics has changed? Maybe because Democrats don\u2019t know which side to come down on, but they\u2019re still obsessed by it. This story is about how Blagojevich played the race card. Blagojevich played the race card, thumbing his nose by appointing — they accuse Blagojevich of playing the race card. It\u2019s the Democrats who run the Senate who are refusing to seat somebody who has been legitimately appointed by a sitting governor. Obama\u2019s appointed a bunch of white people, and now Burris gets rejected. Even Obama came out against Burris. The inauthentic came out against the authentic, according to the way you liberals look at things here. This is hilarious. We\u2019re watching this with our mouths agape, watching this in stunned amazement that you get away with this. <\/p>\n

Los Angeles Times today: ‘The Law is on Blagojevich\u2019s Side.\u2019 It\u2019s an editorial. ‘The taint of Blagojevich\u2019s alleged crimes does not justify ignoring the Constitution,\u2019 is the upshot of the piece from the Los Angeles Times. There are a lot of scholars, Bruce Fein, who sometimes is all over the scholar playbook, in the Washington Times today has said, you know, Blagojevich is still acting as governor, he\u2019s signing and vetoing legislation or whatever. He did, as Burris pointed out, come up with this special election to fill Emanuel\u2019s seat, and nobody tried to stop that. Now the Democrats in the Senate do not want Burris. Dingy Harry wants to hand-pick who he wants in there. I\u2019m sorry, folks, we have elections. Dingy Harry is not in charge of who is in the Senate, as will soon be discovered and affirmed should Burris continue to pursue this along with Blagojevich through all the open legal channels. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Colin, I\u2019m not sure how you pronounce it, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Great to have you. You\u2019re up first today. Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. It\u2019s Colin, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Colin.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m just confused because I\u2019ve heard a few people say this, and if it was a white man that he had appointed as Senator, do you think the same exact thing would have played out?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I do. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because of what Dingy Harry has said. Dingy Harry named two people. He wanted Tammy Duckworth or Lisa Madigan. I think if Blagojevich had appointed a white guy it would have been much the same thing. However, you have to understand what we do here, Colin. For the longest time, people like me and others on my side have had their character impugned, their reputations attempted to be destroyed by false accusations of racism and all of these horrible things that are not true. Here you have, look at these pictures, you got a guy that\u2019s legit, he\u2019s qualified, and according to the Chicago Tribune today, he\u2019s authentically black. And a bunch of white people would not let him in the door, would not let him use the restroom or the drinking fountain. Now, what are we to make of this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: So you\u2019re saying if you had done this, they would have been saying, the Democrats, the liberals would have been saying this about you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. There\u2019s no question. If Harry Reid were a Republican, the coverage last night and today and all last week would have been 180 degrees different. He would have been stoned and pilloried. They would have demanded his ouster for his lack of sensitivity. The Democrat Party is the party of affirmative action. The Democrat Party is the party of quotas. The Democrat Party is the party of advancing minorities to positions they may not even be qualified for. It\u2019s called affirmative action, and yet they always end up being harmed and destroyed by their own policies. This guy, I don\u2019t even think it\u2019s affirmative action, this guy is qualified. This guy\u2019s got more experience than the Bamster has, Colin. Roland Burris has more political, governmental experience than Barack Obama, and they just booted him outta there. There is no question, if the parties were turned here, if the tables were turned, this would be an entirely different thing. <\/p>\n

Now, the Drive-Bys are jumping on Burris. ‘How dare you destroy this historical moment? Just get away. Just go back where you came from.\u2019 If Dingy Harry were a Republican, Colin, the media would have already begun running Burris\u2019 life stories all over the place, and we would have learned that he was a sharecropper\u2019s son, even if it wasn\u2019t true, and we would have learned that he grew up in abject poverty, lived next door to William Jefferson, Congressman (Democrat-Louisiana), and that he had to scrimp and scrape and he ate dirt three nights a week because that\u2019s all his family could afford, and sometimes they put hot water on it and made mud and pretended it was chocolate cake. But we would have all of these stories about how he\u2019s had to scratch and claw against the white power structure, and still he made it. Instead what we\u2019re getting is this guy is an ingrate, shut the hell up and go back to Illinois and learn your place.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, this ‘black enough\u2019 thing that the Drive-By Media and the Democrats continue to wring their hands over…. I mean, if you\u2019re gonna posit the notion that somebody may not be ‘black enough,\u2019 that they may not be authentic, it means that there are those who are black enough, right? I mean, if somebody\u2019s not black enough, somebody is; and then you have to ask: ‘Can somebody be too black?\u2019 Do you think that\u2019s possible, Mr. Snerdley? You have experience here. Is it possible to be too black? We got people who are not black enough, not authentic. We got people who are authentic. Can you be too authentic? <\/p>\n

Can you be too black? (interruption) You can? Okay. Okay. Joe Biden. (interruption) Joe Biden said you could be too black? (interruption) Joe Biden\u2019s not black. What? What are talk…? Hmm. (interruption No, no, no, no, no. I mean, ‘too black\u2019 is a detriment. If you\u2019re inauthentic and you\u2019re not black enough, that\u2019s bad. If you\u2019re authentic and black, that\u2019s good. But then can you be too black? In other words, can you be bad black? Can you be too black? ‘Cause these things are natural progressions. See, I don\u2019t think this way so I don\u2019t have the answer to the question. I really don\u2019t. We\u2019ll have to ponder this one, ladies and gentlemen. We have to go to the experts on this, the civil rights movement, liberal Democrats, and those in the Drive-By Media. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: To Chicago, this is David, great to have you with us, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, authentic black conservative dittos to you from ground zero of a lot of political corruption that\u2019s going on these days. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine, sir. Thank you very much for the phone call.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush. Listen, before I get to my point, one thing, to answer your question earlier, you can be too authentically black. That\u2019s what the liberal media said about Jesse Jackson\u2019s failed presidential run back in the eighties.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, what do you mean, he\u2019s too black?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He didn\u2019t have broad appeal. He didn\u2019t have mass appeal. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s because the Reverend Jackson ran a grievance campaign. I guess it means the same thing. He ran on the basis of grievance, that the country owed him because of our original sin of slavery. The Reverend Sharpton tried the same thing, and the media called that too black?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, they did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So too black means too narrow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I guess. I don\u2019t believe in all that stuff but, you know, if you want to listen to them, that\u2019s fine. Well, listen, my point regarding this Dawn Turner Trice, before I canceled my subscription to the Trib, I noticed that most of her columns were vapid at best and she really didn\u2019t have anything to say unless it pertained to race.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s the difference in Dawn Turner Trice and Frank Rich? What\u2019s the difference in Dawn Turner Trice and Bob Herbert of the New York Times? I mean, neither have anything to say. They\u2019re filled with rage and hatred, stereotypes. I\u2019ve read a bunch of Dawn Turner Trice stuff, and you\u2019re right, it\u2019s all about race, but she\u2019s in the Trib, and she\u2019s at ground zero, and the Trib thinks that she\u2019s substantive. They\u2019re publishing what she says. I was not going to ignore this, David, because one week after these same people tried to build up a phony controversy about me and racism and ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro” here they are asking the question again, this time about Roland Burris! I mean that\u2019s very substantive, if you ask me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they\u2019re going bankrupt as well, so that\u2019s kind of —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know. The content of these papers is one of the many elements that explains their dwindling business. But the news business is the one business in America where the customer is always wrong. The news business is the one business in America where you\u2019re too stupid to understand what they do, and if you complain you are wrong. It\u2019s breathtaking to behold this. In fact, I\u2019ll tell you something. If you want to analyze why the Drive-Bys, be they in print or broadcast, if you want to analyze why they have lost respect, not influence, but if you want to know why they\u2019ve lost respect, it\u2019s because their audience is each other, not their readers. They make no connection with their television, radio, or print audiences, because they\u2019re writing and they\u2019re reporting for each other in the media. That\u2019s who their audience is. Newsweek wants to impress TIME, TIME wants to impress MSNBC. They want to impress each other with how on the same page they all are. How else to explain the phenomena that they\u2019ll all end up using the same word to describe an action, such as gravitas to describe the selection of Dick Cheney by George W. Bush to be his vice president? Every Drive-By person in Washington, as though they were the only ones doing so, uniquely doing so, used the word ‘gravitas.\u2019 They\u2019re doing it to impress each other. It\u2019s a little club you can\u2019t get in. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Bob in Athens, Alabama. Great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, God bless you and Ann Coulter.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Hey, listen, I wanted to take umbrage with your analysis today on this Burris appointment. Harry Reid and the boys in the Senate can\u2019t really seat this guy while he\u2019s under this cloud of malfeasance there in Illinois. They want to flush Blagojevich, and in order to do that he\u2019s clinging to the rim of the toilet right now, and unless he steps down, they can\u2019t seat him, at least they have to go through the motions, anyway.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I understand what you\u2019re saying, that they legitimize Blago if they seat Burris.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they haven\u2019t been able to delegitimize Blago. Blago is still acting as governor. They are on constitutional thin ice here, depending on how far Burris and his lawyers want to take this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, sure, I did want to point out while I was waiting to talk to you, I was looking at Fox News, and they\u2019re reporting that the Illinois secretary of state wouldn\u2019t endorse or sign —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, his name is White, by the way. Jesse White is the Illinois secretary of state.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Hm-hm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s a whole plan. But this is Blago sticking it to them. You kinda have to like this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, he\u2019s doing an excellent job, but he would do a lot better if he would have announced simultaneously that he would resign under this cloud of malfeasance.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s not his game plan. His game plan is called get even. ‘You guys are going to try to get rid of me, okay, fine, take this.\u2019 <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he\u2019s up against the Democrats.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s thrown Roland Burris up against the wall and it has stuck.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, well, I hate to see this, even on the Democrat side because they\u2019re taking this Illinois sewer pipe and taking it national.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We are losing so much of our culture. We are descending here into analyzing all this on the basis of pure politics, in some cases, pop culture. Blago is legitimate. And what is it that legitimizes Blago? It\u2019s called the law. He\u2019s the governor. He\u2019s still the governor. He has not been indicted. They have postponed until April 7th the period of time until he must be indicted, if he is going to be. He is determining how Rahm Emanuel\u2019s seat is going to be filled, with a special election. He is signing legislation. He\u2019s running around, attending rubber chicken dinners, whatever governors do. He\u2019s legitimized by the law. He\u2019s unindicted, ladies and gentlemen. Add to this, I\u2019m sorry, Harry Reid doesn\u2019t get to determine who sits in the United States Senate. This is about the Constitution. And as is the case with so much of what is happening to our country with liberals in charge, the Constitution means less and less, and people don\u2019t care. <\/p>\n

Even I, ladies and gentlemen, can\u2019t help but look at this as a sitcom, but nevertheless there are serious concerns here. The humor that we find in it is the obvious phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 rollerism of Democrats and liberals. They supposedly are head and shoulders above us all, and they are not ethically challenged and they\u2019re not corrupt and they are compassionate and feeling and they love minorities and they want minorities to excel, they will do anything, except, except when the minorities get too uppity, and then it\u2019s time to revert to Bull Connor, or, in this case, Lester Maddox. What\u2019s the difference in Dingy Harry and Lester Maddox, George Wallace? Remember all these great segregationists in the past are Democrats. It\u2019s in the blood, and it\u2019s showing up on the steps of the United States Senate! And we are reduced to discussing, ‘Well, they can\u2019t really do this, you know, they would legitimize Blagojevich.\u2019 How about the fear that they delegitimize themselves? They apparently have no fear that they will delegitimize themselves, but they are in the process of so doing. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to Jerry in Kansas City. Jerry, thank you for calling. Great to have you with us today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, sir, and Happy New Year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Same to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I was just listening to what you said about the tax cut thing; and we\u2019re a one-income household, and I\u2019m at home now, and I just don\u2019t like that idea. I\u2019m a writer and I earn a little money, not much. But I figure that\u2019s my money, and it shouldn\u2019t be going to anybody else not willing to work for it. You were talking earlier about Senator Reid, and he\u2019s going to allow Al Franken in there assuming that he gets over the next week and Mr. Coleman\u2019s filing thing; but he won\u2019t seat Mr. Burris, who, you know, is legitimately appointed. Because, like it or not, until the Illinois House or Senate or whoever has a right to do it, impeaches him, as you pointed out — and I don\u2019t necessarily like the idea — he is still the sitting governor and, you know, that is one of his rights. He wasn\u2019t right trying to sell it but it was his right to appoint whoever meets the constitutional criteria for being a US Senator.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, Jerry, you sound like a guy who normally doesn\u2019t agree with me but on this occasion happens to agree with me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah, and I told Mr. Snerdley as much (laughs) when he put me through and I\u2019m glad I got through. I tried a number of times. People want to talk to you, and get their views, and if I only get this once to do it, I wanted to take advantage of it and hope I sound halfway intelligent.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you passed that test. You agreed with me. And there\u2019s no better way to demonstrate one\u2019s intelligence than to do that. Thanks very much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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