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RUSH: All right, we\u2019re gonna talk about Shirley Sherrod, and we\u2019re gonna talk about the NAACP, and Andrew Breitbart, and this video, but I want to tell you at the outset I hate it. I hate this story. I despise this story. I\u2019m only talking about this because I must talk about it because I don\u2019t want to talk about it. It\u2019s a distraction. It\u2019s nothing more than the left playing the race card. The NAACP has thrown down the gauntlet because the big-government argument has failed. They are keeping alive the divisions in this country and I hate taking the bait. I hate playing along with it. I simply despise the whole thing. Everybody knows what\u2019s going on here. This is nothing more than a failed administration, a failed Democrat Party, a failed civil rights organization trying to stay alive with trumped up this and trumped-up that. This entire thing bores the heck out of me. The story bores me. The topic bores me. It angers me to no end. (interruption) Because I have to go after it, Snerdley, because even Fox caved on this, even poor old Shep Smith went down there and said that everybody\u2019s wrong on this, that Breitbart is wrong and so forth. <\/p>\n

There are only a handful of us that have the guts to put this story straight. If we don\u2019t hammer back, nobody will. We got a bunch of cowards in the conservative media inside the Beltway which will not deal with this honestly. You got Andy McCarthy, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, got me, got Brent Bozell and that\u2019s about it, that are dealing with this up front and honest. And I hate the fact that these people put me in a bad mood. Now, this is not about Andrew Breitbart in the first place. And it\u2019s not about Shirley Sherrod. It\u2019s about the latest round in race-baiting. It\u2019s about the NAACP throwing down the gauntlet with direction and approval from Barack Obama and the White House. This is about the continuing smearing of great patriotic Americans which is all the left has left to do. There\u2019s no racism in the Tea Party. They don\u2019t have racist signs. They didn\u2019t shout the N-word at precious John Lewis on health care Sunday. There\u2019s no evidence that any of this happened. But the Ministry of Truth continues to promulgate the lie. <\/p>\n

Millions of decent Americans who only want to preserve and save their country are being trashed and they\u2019re being smeared. The Ministry of Truth runs with it, they continue to smear, and therefore this has to be discussed. Now, I\u2019m being told, being cautioned: ‘Remember, Rush, most people haven\u2019t heard about this.\u2019 Haven\u2019t heard about what? You know, I got a note last night, ‘Rush you gotta talk about this. They\u2019re calling us racists.\u2019 So what\u2019s new? What\u2019s new? We\u2019re all racists if you listen to the administration, if you listen to the Ministry of Truth, if you listen to the NAACP. We know where the real racism is in this country, it starts with Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the whole race movement, it\u2019s all based on the continued claim that there is racism and unfairness and that\u2019s where the Shirley Sherrod story really picks up here. I kind of resent that I have to spend any time on this whatsoever, but because everybody still cowers, most people still run for the tall grass, a racist charge is thrown at them and they head for the tall grass and they hide, ‘No, no, I\u2019m not, I\u2019m not, I\u2019m not.\u2019 <\/p>\n

This woman, if you listen to the whole tape that the NAACP asked us all to listen to, she talks about Bush and later Obama being a black president. She\u2019s saying that all of us oppose health care because Obama\u2019s black. All of us who oppose government-run health care, which is millions of us, oppose it because of racism, because Obama\u2019s black. That\u2019s not why we oppose it. We don\u2019t oppose it for Obama\u2019s race. Most of us don\u2019t care about Obama\u2019s race. For the first three months of this guy\u2019s administration, ‘Don\u2019t you have any appreciation of the historical –‘ Yeah, I got past that in the first day. What matters to me is issues; what matter is the policies that this guy has and what they\u2019re gonna mean for the country. I\u2019m not into surface. Surface stuff doesn\u2019t mean anything. I want to dig deep. I\u2019m not into narratives. I\u2019m not into templates. I don\u2019t carry around a whole lot of guilt and I don\u2019t let people offend me or make people inflict their own guilt on me. <\/p>\n

So let\u2019s deal with this as we must for just a second. Audio sound bites. This is on the Today Show. This is Shirley Sherrod, the former US Department of Agriculture director of Georgia Rural Development. You know, another observation I had looking at this. Would you look at how damn big this government is? We\u2019ve got rural directors here in every state, US Department of Agriculture — how many millions of people working in the federal government are redundant and unnecessary and are simply there because the left wants a bigger and more expansive government and a shrinking private sector? I don\u2019t know what these people do. They don\u2019t know what they do. Anyway, now the template is: ‘Do you deserve a phone call from the president?\u2019 The White House wanted you fired. The White House didn\u2019t listen. The White House took it out of context. The White House is afraid of Fox News. For all I know, the White House orchestrated this whole thing. Here\u2019s her answer.<\/p>\n

SHERROD: I do. I really would not want the president to apologize to me. I would love to have a conversation with him. I\u2019d like to talk to him a little bit about the experiences of people like me, people at the grassroot level, people who live out there in rural America, people who live in the South. I know he does not have that kind of experience. Let me help him a little bit with how we think, how we live, and the things that are happening.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He doesn\u2019t have any slave blood. He doesn\u2019t know what it\u2019s like. He has no clue what it\u2019s like to be black in this country, he has no experience, didn\u2019t grow up being black in this country, he doesn\u2019t even know what the hardships are, he doesn\u2019t know what discrimination is. I, Shirley Sherrod, I need to go talk to Barack Obama, get him down for the struggle. She\u2019s clueless. She\u2019s never read any of his books. If she thinks he hasn\u2019t talked to any black people, it all he\u2019s ever talked to. He sat in Reverend Wright\u2019s church for 20 years. I don\u2019t care where he\u2019s lived, Ms. Sherrod, he has a greater anger about this country\u2019s past than you do. It\u2019s been instilled in him. On the racists who oppose health care, she says, ‘You know, I haven\u2019t seen such a mean-spirited people as I\u2019ve seen lately over this issue of health care. Some of the racism we thought was buried. Didn\u2019t it surface? Now, we endured eight years of the Bush\u2019s and we didn\u2019t do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President.\u2019<\/p>\n

Melanin or the lack of it never put out a fire. Melanin or the lack of it never fed a hungry child. Shirley Sherrod was in charge of passing out $114 billion in loans. What is the USDA doing giving out loans? Are there not banks for this? What the hell is the US Department of Agriculture doing giving out loans? And what are her qualifications to oversee this? She wants to talk to Obama. She wants to make sure he understands what people like her have gone through. So Meredith Vieira on the Today show said, ‘What do you think he doesn\u2019t understand and a lot of the rest of the country doesn\u2019t understand about people like you, and the way you live, and what you\u2019re faced with?\u2019<\/p>\n

SHERROD: We are people who struggle every day, who do the best we can in our communities, who love this country, we love him, we want him to be successful because we feel he thinks in some ways like we do, and we think that\u2019s good for the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who is ‘we\u2019?<\/p>\n

SHERROD: Yes, there are issues out there that we are faced with, issues of poverty, issues that I worked so hard on these last 11 months at rural development to try to really have an impact on, mainly because that\u2019s me, but, the other thing, I want everything to reflect — I want a good reflection for him as the first black president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, who is it that\u2019s focused on race here? What is this ‘we\u2019 business? We are people who struggle every day, who do the best we can in our community, love this country, we love him, we want him to be successful, we feel he thinks in some ways like we do. We think he feels in some ways like we do? And we think that\u2019s good for the country. We want a good reflection for him as the first black president. It\u2019s all about race to these… us. It\u2019s not about Andrew Breitbart. It is not about the conservative media. What this is all about to us is the regime, is the federal government under this administration and its allies trying to divide us, trying to undermine us, trying to destroy the private sector, the job creation sector, the wealth creating sector of this country. That\u2019s what bothers us. We see it each and every day. We see the evidence of it each and every week. I don\u2019t care whether it\u2019s unemployment numbers or housing sales, housing starts, home sales or what have you. We are being destroyed. Our country is bankrupt and is being further bankrupted every day. And we\u2019ve got people who only want to look at race and say that the people who do not like what\u2019s happening in this country don\u2019t like it because there\u2019s a black president in charge of it. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m here to tell you, Ms. Sherrod, and the rest of you at the NAALCP, this guy could be from Mars and it wouldn\u2019t matter. This guy could be Ronald Reagan\u2019s son and I would oppose him. This guy could have been adopted by Ronald Reagan. This guy could come from Barry Goldwater\u2019s own family in Arizona and if he was doing what he was doing, I would oppose him as stringently as I am now. I don\u2019t care what his skin color is. I don\u2019t care where he was born; I don\u2019t care where he\u2019s grown up; I don\u2019t care where he went to school; I don\u2019t care about Saul Alinsky other than that\u2019s who basically formed this guy. I know who he is. I know who his mentors have been, and I know why he\u2019s doing what he\u2019s doing. I don\u2019t like it. It has nothing to do with his race and nobody in the Tea Party is animated because of this guy\u2019s race. We are patriots, we are Americans, we know the traditions and institutes that have made this country great, and we have an administration that\u2019s undermining those traditions and institutions. <\/p>\n

One of the things that has always propelled this country is parents and families working hard to make a better life for their kids, a better life for their grandkids, and it\u2019s now impossible to do, becoming harder and harder. The future does not look bright because of policies that have been implemented in just 18 months by people who have views of this country that do not relate. Miss Sherrod, the views of the president of the United States are less than 20% of the thinking of this country. Call them progressives, call them liberals, call them Democrats or what have you, we are being ruled by a minority that has a big chip on its shoulder, it\u2019s angry about whatever it\u2019s angry about for this country, and it\u2019s seeking to take its measure now to get even, payback time, what have you. Frankly the reasons are not the paramount thing. The paramount thing is that it\u2019s happening. It\u2019s distressing, it is unnecessary, and it needs to be reversed. I am talking particularly and exclusively about policy, philosophy, legislation, all of this stuff. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking about the things that are real. And none of it is influenced, none of my thinking, none of my reaction, none of my wants, needs, or desires are in any way, shape, manner, or form shaped by anybody\u2019s race, which is why most of us are continually fed up because all that does is put another roadblock in front of everybody who wants genuine progress to stop this downward spiral that we\u2019re in, that many people feel was created on purpose, and we\u2019re not sitting here happy about it, and it has nothing to do with how much melanin is in somebody\u2019s skin. Zilch, zero, nada. Nobody\u2019s denying this was a slave country. Nobody\u2019s denying it. But it isn\u2019t now. We\u2019re the one country that\u2019s gone to war with itself over it. Over 500,000 Americans died to end it. It\u2019s over. We\u2019ve had civil rights legislation, we have had affirmative action, we have addressed every grievance 10 to 20 times, and the people who have made us address these grievances have openly said there\u2019ll never be enough redress, this has got to happen in perpetuity. This is doing nothing but dividing the country. It\u2019s not dividing it among rich and poor or black and white. It\u2019s dividing this country as progress versus anti-progress. <\/p>\n

The people in the Tea Party, of which many are black and many are minority and many are Hispanic, are simply standard, ordinary, everyday, extraordinary Americans. They know what it has been that\u2019s made this country great. They understand and love the traditions and institutions that they see under assault. And they\u2019re under assault not just by a black man. They\u2019re under assault by all kinds of white Democrats, too. They\u2019re under assault by Hispanic Democrats. I don\u2019t care if they\u2019re Hispanic, black, racist, whatever, I don\u2019t care if they\u2019re Asian. If they are liberals they are assaulting this country and it is that which we oppose. We oppose ideas, we oppose philosophies. And it doesn\u2019t matter the skin color, it doesn\u2019t matter the state, the country, or wherever these people come from. What matters is what they believe. And that\u2019s what we oppose. <\/p>\n

I resent having to talk about all this because it\u2019s nothing more than a giant distraction from the things I have just mentioned in the last ten minutes. So, frankly, I\u2019m through with it. I\u2019m not going to be baited by it anymore. I don\u2019t care. Go talk to Obama if you want to. Go and have a discussion about racism. Have a discussion about slavery. Go tell him all you want about it. Go get your job back. Go hold him up for as much as you can, get everybody on our side in the media. In the meantime the rest of us are going to go about trying to save this country for the rest of our children and grandchildren because that\u2019s what matters to us. Not your skin color. Not where the president was born, not where he grew up, and not what his skin color is. It\u2019s what he thinks. He\u2019s wrong. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This regime is tribalizing this country. They are dividing this country. It\u2019s not just enough to say that they are dividing us. They are tribalizing this country. We aren\u2019t Americans anymore. We\u2019re all members of different racial tribes, and we are to be pitted against each other: Black Americans, White Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans. We\u2019re all being divided up racially, by tribes — and this country has never been a country of tribes. This is a country of Americans. There\u2019s been a distinct American culture! It led to the greatest nation in the history of humanity that culture. There\u2019s nothing wrong with it. It\u2019s better than any culture that has ever assimilated, that has ever just happened, which ours did, because we are blessed by God, and our Founders codified that in our Declaration of Independence. <\/p>\n

Now all of that is said to be racist and sexist and bigoted and homophobic and all of the multicultural curricula started to come up and divide people in this country into various groups, victims, tribes, or what have you. The American people that I know do not want to be divided up. We want a great country. We want everybody to experience and have access to the greatest opportunity human beings have ever had: The United States of America. We want excellence for everybody. We love everybody. We want everybody to be as great or as good as they want to be. We don\u2019t want to hold anybody back. We don\u2019t want to divide the country. We\u2019re not jealous. We\u2019re not envious. The real hope in this country is found in the audience of this program, in the tea parties, in the conservative movement. That\u2019s where the real hope, that\u2019s where the real faith, that\u2019s where the real excellence is to be found in this country, and it must be unleashed and stop cowering to all this.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: And while all this is going on, just who the hell is it that\u2019s trying to hold black people back? It certainly isn\u2019t us. This poor old Alvin Greene in South Carolina, who tried to dispatch him? Was it not the NAACP? Was it not the Democrat Party? Go talk to Carl McCall, who wanted to be a black governor from New York. Who got in his way? Bill Clinton, the Democrat Party. It isn\u2019t the tea party that\u2019s hindering black people politically in this country. It\u2019s the Democrat Party. They are the white plantation holders. They survive. They have kept it alive. Now, the Ministry of Truth — the hacks, the flacks from the ruling class — they\u2019re going to want this to go on another week, folks. They\u2019re going to want Shirley Sherrod to be the focus — and Obama\u2019s going to lap it up. He\u2019s gonna lap it up and he\u2019s going to want everybody else to be focused on this, too, because they want as many people as possible thinking this country is immoral and unjust. <\/p>\n

They want you feeling guilty. They want you feeling like you have to do something to make amends for things that you have not done. They want to establish the notion this country, from its founding, is unjust and immoral. You know, when this whole thing started last week, somewhere at the NAACP convention, when everybody realized the Democrats are in trouble and what did Benjamin Jealous do, the head honcho of the NAACP? He started running around, \u2019cause the black vote wasn\u2019t there they\u2019re looking at polling. They\u2019re looking at all the energy. Republicans have all the energy, have all the momentum going into the November elections, and the Democrats have none, and Obama\u2019s Democrats and Obama\u2019s black supporters, Hispanics have none — and they gotta somehow rev up the old Obama coalition. They gotta get it going. <\/p>\n

So what did they do at their convention? Start shouting racism! So I ask myself, ‘If I\u2019m African-American, and I\u2019m hearing that my party\u2019s upset \u2019cause I\u2019m not excited, what they think they gotta do to get me excited is to tell me there\u2019s racism out there instead of going after jobs, economic growth, and so forth?\u2019 African-Americans are among the highest unemployed people in this country. The unemployment rate among African-Americans dwarfs the unemployment rate of any other group. Yet what is it that they are motivated with? What\u2019s the NAALCP decide to do to get \u2019em all stirred up? Start shouting racism! When they have the highest unemployment of any group in the country. I would think if the NAACP and Obama really cared about these people they would start talking about the things that matter to them, and that\u2019s work, and jobs. <\/p>\n

They have families, too. They want the best for their kids, too. But no! Obama and his boys want \u2019em focused on benefits. Getting their cut. Sit around and wait for somebody else to deliver their cut. So they\u2019re gonna try to keep this alive for a full week. Who was it that tried to get rid of Governor Paterson in New York? Who said, ‘Don\u2019t run\u2019? It was Obama. Obama didn\u2019t want Governor Paterson, black, to run for reelection in New York, \u2019cause his poll numbers are down. Andrew Cuomo! That\u2019s the chosen guy now to be governor of New York. They didn\u2019t want Harold Ford to run. Harold Ford was thinking running for the Senate against Kirsten Gillibrand, and they started dumping on poor old Harold Ford.<\/p>\n

(Whispering) ‘He\u2019s got a white wife! He\u2019s got a scandal here. Maybe he came by some of his money in an ill-gotten way.\u2019 It\u2019s the Democrats that go after all these people, not us. Who was it fired this Shirley whatever her name is? Tom Vilsack, a white Democrat! On orders from whom? Somebody at the White House! It wasn\u2019t us. We couldn\u2019t fire the woman. We don\u2019t care! Get the woman off television. Get her off the front pages. Can we start talking about economic policies that will bring the country back? Who was it that excused one of these great Democrat senators from being a Grand Kleagle of the freaking Ku Klux Klan? It was the Democrat Party! Who looked the other way? Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, all of the race wizards, the wizards of smart. <\/p>\n

Who was it that tolerated a Klansman in the United States Senate? It was the Democrat Party and the NAACP. You know why? ‘Cause he was all for government-run health care. He was all for the big government, Democrat-socialist agenda all of those years. And who was it, who was it that excused Bob Byrd for being a member of the Klan? It was a good old Bubba, Bill Clinton! (doing impression) ‘Hey, hey, hey, yeah. (chuckling) You know what? He grew up in the hills and the hollers there in West Virginia, and a lot of people made some mistakes out there. He went out there, and he did some things he shouldn\u2019ta done but he did it for you. He had to get elected.\u2019 Oh, okay. So if you\u2019re Democrat and you have to get elected, it\u2019s okay to not just join the Klan, but to become a Kleagle and recruit for the Klan! It wasn\u2019t us. Bull Connor, who turned the dogs and the water hoses on blacks in Selma, it wasn\u2019t us. He\u2019s a Democrat. Lester Maddox, Democrat. George Wallace, Democrat. J. William Fulbright, Robert Byrd, opposed the Civil Rights Act and filibustered it. Who are they? White Democrats. It wasn\u2019t us. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Richmond, Virginia, Matthew, great to have you on the Rush-Limbaugh program, hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, thanks Rush. It\u2019s an honor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I watched the Sherrod video last night, and as a conservative college student the thing that really jumped out at me, she addressed the black youth in the audience several times, and one of the things she encouraged them to do was to go and get a government job, and she actually joked and she asked the question, ‘Have you ever heard of somebody losing a government job?\u2019 And so I just thought with all this unemployment news, that really jumped out, you know, as far as all the bureaucracy we try to —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, go get a government job, anybody ever been fired from a government job, it\u2019s a benefit, yeah, go get a government job and get your benefits.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I heard her say that, too. That stood out to me as well. I guess Obama called her. Obama called her today. The White House said that Obama called her at midday today, hours after her television interviews. ‘The President expressed to Ms. Sherrod his regret about the events of the last several days. He emphasized that Secretary Vilsack was sincere in his apology yesterday, and in his work to rid USDA of discrimination.\u2019 What the hell? Who discriminated against the woman? The White House discriminated against the woman. To rid the USDA of discrimination? Everything in this country before these people got here was racist, discriminatory, rotten to the core and they haven\u2019t been able to fix it. You know, I guess ‘to rid the USDA against discrimination\u2019 is a reference to Reagan and Bush. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Bob in the Jersey Shore. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey. Say, Rush, great show.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: You know, Rush, when I go on interviews, and I\u2019m a systems administrator, I\u2019m questioned about how many information systems have you worked on? How many systems did you implement? How do you approach an abend? How do you approach these problems with systems? I\u2019m asked specific questions on my experience as they relate to that position, yet Sotomayor talks about her life experiences as a single mother. Kagan talks about her life experiences, okay? Shirley Sherrod talks about her life experiences as a woman in the South. Well, what does that have to do with the job that you\u2019re supposed to do? I mean in the case of a Supreme Court nominee, what is your experience and qualifications to interpret the Constitution of the United States as our forefathers —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no. You\u2019re not supposed to interpret. You\u2019re supposed to be able to have the empathy to be able to rewrite it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. But, you know, Rush, this thing about life experiences, it seems that this administration is putting life experiences over qualifications. I mean it\u2019s ridiculous.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, of course, wait a second, now. Bob, I\u2019m not getting impatient with you, but of course, because Sotomayor is not qualified. Kagan is not qualified. The whole point of talking about life experiences, who are we talking about here? Sotomayor and Kagan. What are they? They\u2019re women. That means they\u2019re victims; that means they\u2019re minorities; that means they\u2019ve been discriminated against; that means we owe \u2019em.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We owe \u2019em their life experiences. They\u2019ve had it tough. They\u2019ve had it so tough because they\u2019ve been women in America, and they\u2019ve been Hispanic women in America, and they\u2019ve had to play softball as women in America, and the deck has been stacked against them, and because they\u2019ve had to go through life eating excrement sandwiches every day because of Ronald Reagan and George Bush and Rush Limbaugh, they\u2019re owed a seat on the Supreme Court. It doesn\u2019t matter if they couldn\u2019t spell ‘cat\u2019 if you spotted \u2019em the ‘C\u2019 and the ‘T.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Meanwhile, you have to go out and show what experience you\u2019ve got and while they look at your experience they\u2019re going to find out if you you\u2019ve discriminated against somebody like a Sotomayor or a Kagan in your experience and if you have, buddy, you aren\u2019t gonna get the job and you\u2019re going to have an asterisk next to your name in every government file in which you appear.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t even answer, Bob. There\u2019s nothing left to say. When I say something, that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, Shirley Sherrod. Here are her thoughts on working for the USDA. She said, ‘But before I give you — even before I — I go into what I have here, I want to — I want to second something that Olivia said. You know, I grew up on the farm and I didn\u2019t want to have anything to do with agriculture, but she was right. There are jobs at USDA, and many times there are no people of color to fill those jobs \u2019cause we shy away from agriculture. We hear the word ‘agriculture\u2019 and think only of working in the fields. And you\u2019ve heard of a lot of layoffs. Have you heard of anybody in the federal government losing their job? That\u2019s all that I need to say, okay? And I — I might say a little bit more to the young people. It\u2019s good to have you all here.\u2019 So she admits that she didn\u2019t want to have anything to do with agriculture, but she couldn\u2019t turn down the option of getting a job she couldn\u2019t be fired from, which is pretty ironic given that she was fired. ‘[T]here are no people of color to fill those jobs \u2019cause we shy away from agriculture.\u2019 Isn\u2019t that stereotyping? Racial profiling, stereotyping? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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