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RUSH: Now, I paid no attention to TV over the weekend. Zilch, zero, nada. In fact, I am in withdrawal ever since Lost and \u201924\u2019 ended, there\u2019s nothing out there. I can\u2019t wait for football season to start. But I did get roped into watching The Bachelorette last night. Folks, I gotta tell you, it\u2019s the funniest show. It\u2019s deathly scary if this show represents — you know, I\u2019m sitting there watching this show and I asked Kathryn, ‘What is the average IQ of the person watching this show who\u2019s really into it, who really, really thinks –‘ (interruption) No, we watched it as a laugh thing, Snerdley, we watched it to laugh at it, we watched it to cringe, and we laughed and we cringed, and then I said, ‘I\u2019m trying to imagine people glued to their TVs who believe this, who think this is great programming, who want to be on this show.\u2019 And then I think, are they voting? (interruption) No, it\u2019s not on the DVR list. In fact, it was not planned. It was just something that popped up. You know, spur of the moment decision. So anyway I haven\u2019t had the TV on, so I come in here and Cookie has the sound bite roster for me, and let\u2019s go to audio sound bite five. Last Saturday Fox News Channel cohost Rick Folbaum and Cal Thomas had this exchange about Michael Steele.<\/p>\n

FOLBAUM: Rush Limbaugh hasn\u2019t really had a chance to weigh in on this yet. He hasn\u2019t been on the radio, at least not to my knowledge, since this first became public. What happens if Rush gets on the air on Tuesday or whenever he\u2019s back in the chair, and he says Michael Steele\u2019s gotta go? They\u2019ve had their back-and-forth before. What do you think?<\/p>\n

THOMAS: Yeah. That\u2019s right. Right. They did. And Limbaugh took him on and Michael had to apologize to Rush Limbaugh, and there are all kinds of editorials from the Washington Post and other places, columns, saying, you know, what is this? He\u2019s apologizing to a talk show host. But it\u2019s a pattern. And if the pattern — look, everybody\u2019s entitled to one or two gaffes. If it becomes a pattern and he becomes the story, rather than the ideas and the issues and the objectives of the Republican Party, no person is worth keeping on for any reason who becomes a distraction.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they went on to say here that Michael Steele\u2019s job hangs in the balance, is hanging by a thread, depending on what I say today.<\/p>\n

FOLBAUM: If Rush Limbaugh does go on the air this coming week and calls for him to go away, I imagine that sort of plays into the Democratic playbook. I mean there\u2019s been a lot of talk about Rush Limbaugh, Democrats love to say that he\u2019s the head of the Republican Party. That would certainly give them another opportunity to do that, wouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

LEE: Well, once again we will see who is the true spokesperson of the Republican Party and whether or not it is Rush Limbaugh or it is those that have been elected.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Gee whiz.<\/p>\n

LEE: I think this will be a very telling sign. It will also speak volumes to kind of what the message is going to be in 2010. Who really does lead the Republican Party? I think it will be fascinating to watch.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So here I am, I\u2019m watching The Bachelorette last night, I\u2019m unaware of any of this and I find out that the Washington political culture is waiting on me to decide the fate of Michael Steele. And so, since it\u2019s up to me, I will have an opinion on this at some point during the program today. I\u2019m still undecided as to what my opinion ought to be, but apparently I hold the cards, and I\u2019m going to hold the hand close to my chest here \u2019til I figure out what to do. Thumbs up or thumb down. I feel like Marcus Aurelius, Julius Caesar with the Christians and the lions in there at the Coliseum, up or down. So I gotta think about this now. I\u2019ll let people know what I decide as the program unfolds today. Cynthia Tucker, ABC\u2019s This Week, Sunday, roundtable, they discussed Michael Steele. And, by the way, this woman is the editorial director of the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, and she has been for a long, long time. ‘Cynthia you once called Michael Steele an affirmative action hire gone bad.\u2019 By the way, she can say this because she\u2019s African-American. Here\u2019s what she said.<\/p>\n

TUCKER: Michael Steele is a self-aggrandizing gaffe-prone incompetent who would have been fired a long time ago were he not black. Of course the irony is that he never would have been voted in as chairman of the Republican Party were he not black.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Same with Obama.<\/p>\n

TUCKER: It is very ironic since the Republican —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape a second. That\u2019s exactly the same thing you could say about Obama. He wouldn\u2019t have been voted president if he weren\u2019t black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot of money have a lot of money, because she\u2019s black. It was Oprah. No, it can\u2019t be. Yes, it is. There\u2019s a lot of guilt out there, show we\u2019re not racists, we\u2019ll make this person wealthy and big and famous and so forth. The Chicago Sun-Times today has this story, it\u2019s amazing, ‘How did we get conned, how did we get fooled? My God we\u2019ve elected an empty suit. We elected somebody who had no experience, no idea what he was doing, the empty suit cost $5,000.\u2019 I thought my God, they finally woke up, they\u2019re talking about Obama, but no, they\u2019re talking about Blago. They\u2019re asking themselves in Chicago how they got conned by Blagojevich! And you read this, and I will share it with you as the program unfolds, it could be written about Obama. So Cynthia Tucker says, yeah, he wouldn\u2019t be hired by the GOP if he weren\u2019t black. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Washington awaits my fatwa on Michael Steele. Washington is paralyzed today until I issue my findings on this. The first thing I have to say about this: Cynthia Tucker said Steele would only have the gig if he was black. If Obama weren\u2019t black he\u2019d be a tour guide in Honolulu or he\u2019d be teaching Saul Alinsky constitutional law or lecturing on it in Chicago, and if somebody\u2019s ‘entitled to a couple of gaffes,\u2019 why do we still have Senator Bite Me running around as Vice President Bite Me, who is a walking gaffe every time he opens his mouth and he\u2019s not even black! So what\u2019s the Democrats\u2019 excuse for having Joe Bite Me around as vice president? Now, to be serious about this, as best that we can make out here all the outrage is over Steele saying that the war in Afghanistan was a, quote, ‘war of Obama\u2019s choosing, not something the US has actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in,\u2019 quote, unquote. <\/p>\n

Now, at the worst he\u2019s half right. The war in Afghanistan was the war Obama and the Democrats wanted to fight throughout the war in Iraq. They wanted to lose in Iraq. They wanted to get out of there and then ‘go get Bin Laden.\u2019 That would be the definition of success, and Obama claimed to be totally gung-ho about that. He claimed to object to the invasion of Iraq because it was a ‘distraction\u2019 from our true mission, which is the war in Afghanistan. So Steele, in my view — and this is part of my fatwa. Steele is at least half right which puts him way up on Vice President Bite Me who once again this weekend repeated his claim that Obama has won the war in Iraq when all Obama wanted to do was get out of Iraq and lose the war. Still, you would think there\u2019s enough talent on display the Republican Party that they could find somebody to stay on message. But the dirty little secret is that the center of the Republican and\/or, slash, conservative universe is not at the Republican National Committee. I still have not issued my fatwa. I\u2019m thinking about it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Our nation\u2019s capital remains paralyzed while awaiting my fatwa on Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele. Now, remember, folks: All of these liberals, all these media people in their heart of hearts want the Republicans to fire Steele so they can run around out there and write about the Republicans firing a black guy. The one thing that\u2019s happening here is there clearly is an effort to manipulate the Republicans as there always is and are doing, quote, unquote, ‘the right thing\u2019 morally and ethically and of course the right thing as far as the Democrats are concerned is doing something about which the Democrats and the media can then write embarrassing things about the GOP. That\u2019s what they wish to do is report, ‘Republicans fired a black guy!\u2019<\/p>\n

Well, of course nobody pays any attention to how the Democrat Party undermines black candidates. Look at this poor guy in South Carolina. They\u2019re trying to undermine this guy who won the primary there at 60% of the vote. Carl McCall, black gubernatorial candidate in New York, they told him to go pound sand. They\u2019re trying to get David Paterson, the existing government of New York, to get out of there. The truth be known, it\u2019s the Democrats and the left who show absolutely no compassion to black candidates. But suppose I were to say of Michael Steele something similar that Bill Clinton said at the memorial for Robert ‘Sheets\u2019 Byrd last week. I don\u2019t know if you people caught this or not, but essentially Clinton said (doing impression), ‘Yeah, you know, Bobby, yeah (chuckling), he was from those hollows and the hills out there West Virginia. Back in his young days he did a couple things he shouldn\u2019ta done. He knew it but he had to get elected.\u2019<\/p>\n

Yeah, he had to join the Klan to get elected. So we need to cut the guy some slack. (doing impression) ‘That\u2019s right, Limbaugh. (chuckles) You nail it every time you analyze me. Exactly right. He had to do what he had to do. West Virginia, everybody knows the Klan had a big beachhead in there and if you wanted to get elected to something, you had to first join the Klan. But we have to look the other way \u2019cause he spent the rest of life trying to make up for it.\u2019 No, he didn\u2019t, Mr. President. He voted against every black Supreme Court nominee came down the pike. So maybe we should forgive Michael Steele because he\u2019s young. He\u2019s doing things here in his relative youth, just as Robert Byrd did in his. I mean, Clinton and Obama told us so last week. When Byrd was youthful, say between ages 28 and 51, he did this. We were told to forgive Robert Byrd his Cyclops position. That was a recruiter. He founded a Klan chapter! <\/p>\n

(impression) ‘That\u2019s right, Limbaugh, but you\u2019re ignoring what I\u2019m saying: He had to do that because he had to get elected. That\u2019s what West Virginia was when he was growing up.\u2019 Okay, so we excuse it, then. At any rate, ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019m still considering what to do here. Whatever is done here, it ought not be done because Democrats demand it or because the media demand it \u2019cause, frankly, the Republican National Committee is not the center of the universe when it comes to winning these elections in November. The center of the universe is right here, at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. It\u2019s not at the RNC. So the bottom line is it doesn\u2019t make any difference. Here. Back to the audio sound bites. Saturday, Sunday, yesterday, and this morning: A montage of ABC, Fox News, MSNBC, bunch of other news people reviewing. They\u2019re obsessed with Steele and his long-ago insult of me. Remember?<\/p>\n

STEVE CENTANNI: Chairman Steele has angered his GOP cohorts in the past. For instance, when he called Rush Limbaugh ‘incendiary.\u2019<\/p>\n

DAVID KERLEY: …Rush Limbaugh ‘incendiary and ugly.\u2019<\/p>\n

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: He calls Rush Limbaugh an entertainer. He has to apologize for that.<\/p>\n

GREGG JARRETT: Steele has made a number of missteps, criticizing Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

JEANINE PIRRO: The fourth gaffe he made saying that his rhetoric is ‘incendiary\u2019 and it\u2019s ‘ugly.\u2019<\/p>\n

DAVID KERLEY: There was that insult of Republican icon Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. So clearly the RNC head is simply a titular position. I am titular, the real grand pooh-bah, as everybody recognizes. That\u2019s what all these sound bites are all about. I mean… (interruption) Well, no. Republican icon, yes, that\u2019s true. They go back and forth, depending on when they want to elevate me and when they don\u2019t. It\u2019s clear that the center of the universe when it comes to conservative-Republican electoral politics is right here. All these audio sound bites prove it. Steele\u2019s fate depends on me and my fatwa today. Ha. Still thinking about it. We will let you know. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, people — I\u2019ve checked the e-mail here — ‘Rush, you cannot drag this Michael Steele thing out the whole show.\u2019 Yes, I can. It\u2019s my show and I can do with it whatever I want. I will say this: Whatever may or may not happen to Michael Steele, Michael Steele is more qualified to be the editorial director at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution than Cynthia Tucker is. You talk about controversial opinions? You talk about a full-fledged, radical, leftist-extreme agenda disguised as a journalist? That\u2019s Cynthia Tucker. Michael Steele is not disguising himself as anything. He is being who he is. He may be ‘gaffe prone,\u2019 but Tucker, like other leftists, are ideologically incapable of logic — and, as I say, ‘If you\u2019re only allowed ‘a couple of gaffes,\u2019 somebody explain to me how Joe Bite Me remains vice president.\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Kevin in Missoula, Montana, great to have you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Your opening comments on Michael Steele got me to think a little bit, and I have to say, I have to agree with him, this is a war of Obama\u2019s choosing. Obama has chose how the rules of engagement will work over there, he\u2019s chose how the military\u2019s gonna operate, and he\u2019s also chosen a date when we\u2019re going to extract ourselves out of there. So what we are getting over there is exactly what Obama is choosing for us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, now, since you think that, why do you think so many people are upset with Steele? And what do you think I ought to do about this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think I\u2019ll leave that to the master.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s a very wise answer.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) <\/p>\n

RUSH: You think I have a special privileged life. You wouldn\u2019t believe. Very few people think I really know what I\u2019m doing in any aspect of my life, and tell me how to do it better, but you, sir, have deferred to expertise, and I thank you for that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You bet. Well, it\u2019s my job to make the host look good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t forget that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that very, very much. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Cynthia Tucker is no longer at the Atlanta Urinal-Constipation. She\u2019s a DC-based columnist, I\u2019m told. And I have come to a decision on Michael Steele. I don\u2019t know why everybody\u2019s waiting for my fatwa. I\u2019m going to defer the decision on Michael Steele to the genuine head of the Republican Party, General Colin Powell. It\u2019s up to him. I wash my hands of this.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So my fatwa on Michael Steele has been released, has been issued, and that is I essentially passed this decision on to General Colin Powell, said to be the ideal Republican and Republican leader in this day and age. Let him decide. Although I\u2019m going to share with you some more thoughts on this, regardless. As I look at this, I\u2019m looking at media and the Democrats, it seems to me, folks, these critics have been so harsh about Steele\u2019s remarks, if I didn\u2019t know better I\u2019d say it almost sounds like they want him to fail. It seems to me these people are eager to be able to claim Michael Steele\u2019s scalp. They want him to fail. Now, which is more preposterous here? Here\u2019s what Steele said. ‘Afghanistan is a war of Obama\u2019s choosing and not something the US had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.\u2019<\/p>\n

He\u2019s half right about this, and also half wrong. (More in a minute.) Or here is vice president Joe Bite Me who said, ‘The American people will see President Obama\u2019s Iraq policy as a success when the combat mission ends on schedule on August 31st.\u2019 Bite Me said, ‘The administration, quote, ‘will be able to point to and say, ‘We told you what we\u2019re gonna do and we did it.\u2019 They\u2019re going to take a look and they see if the president kept his promise getting troops home and will give them more confidence in the foreign policy he set.\u2019 Now, that is clearly delusional. What Bite Me said is deranged. Bite Me Biden, and the rest of the Democrats actively sought our defeat in Iraq and — well, we all know that — and actively spoke out against the policy of General Petraeus, the surge. Now they\u2019re claiming credit for it? ‘Our Iraq policy\u2019?<\/p>\n

Now, as for whether or not Steele should resign, as I say, that\u2019s now up to General Powell. I have issued my fatwa, and I passed the baton to him, but let me go a little further with that. Do I agree with his comment? I said he was half right. But he\u2019s also half wrong. We were attacked by Al-Qaeda. They were based in Afghanistan. The Taliban gave safe haven to Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. This is indisputable. If anything, we should have pounded the hell out of this enemy with nearly everything we had well before now, but that doesn\u2019t appear to be our plan. We don\u2019t fight wars the way we used to in this country. That is what it is. But I\u2019ll tell you what I get tired of. I get tired of people trying to be the first to issue statements or go on the air demanding resignations, not because of something these people have done but because of what they mistakenly said or said in passing.<\/p>\n

There seems to be a mad dash to the microphones and cameras. ‘He ought to resign! He ought to quit! Get him outta there.\u2019 I know words have consequences, but, for crying out loud, so do actions! I\u2019ve watched over the weekend the spectacle of Obama and Bite Me and Bill Clinton praising Robert Byrd saying, ‘Yeah, he had to join the Klan. After all, he had to get elected.\u2019 They\u2019re praising Robert Byrd as if he was the great civil rights leader of our time. Clinton even referred to Byrd\u2019s involvement in the Klan as a passing youthful event. But the fact is Byrd was a segregationist leader for a good part of his early Senate career. He helped lead the filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, not because of constitutional concerns, but because he was a segregationist. I didn\u2019t hear any criticism of this from too many circles, certainly not the media and the liberals.<\/p>\n

Yet there\u2019s Obama, heaping praise on the guy, as did Bite Me and Clinton. Now, these are leaders of the Democrat Party. Should they resign? Look at what they did. They have rewritten history about one of this nation\u2019s leading segregationists who led a filibuster against their most prized legislative accomplishment, the Civil Rights Act, and they\u2019re out there praising the guy and telling us we need to look past. You know, he spent the rest of his life trying to make up for this. ‘He had to get elected,\u2019 Clinton said. Yeah, had to get elected. He comes from the hollows and hills of West Virginia, and wink-wink, we all know who was in the hollows and hills: The guys in the white robes burning crosses. That\u2019s what Clinton said! Byrd had to be one of those guys if he hoped to get elected. You want to compare this to Michael Steele?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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