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RUSH: This mosque business is not going away and there\u2019s a reason why it\u2019s not going away, and all over the Drive-By Media yesterday, ‘The people just don\u2019t understand.\u2019 The media don\u2019t understand why people are saying what they\u2019re saying in these polls. They don\u2019t understand why 20% think Obama is a Muslim, fewer and fewer think he\u2019s a Christian, and it\u2019s really not hard to understand. You know, we, folks, have not forgotten Jeremiah Wright. When Obama says he\u2019s a Christian there are a lot of people that don\u2019t believe him, and just because he got elected president doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019ve forgotten it. It\u2019s not really complicated out here, but yet they\u2019re just beside themselves, and of course who are they blaming for this? Your host, the harmless, lovable little fuzzball, El Rushbo. This is Juan Williams yesterday morning on Fox News Sunday. Chris Wallace: ‘Juan, why would it be growing? I mean he\u2019s been in office a year and a half. Would you think people would have more of a sense of who he is by now?\u2019<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: I don\u2019t know if you noticed, but his approval ratings have been sinking, and as his approval ratings have been sinking I think more people feel, you know, absolutely unleashed in terms of their criticism and I think the stuff that\u2019s coming from the right wing from Rush Limbaugh and the like, you know, Imam Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m happy to be noted, and I\u2019m happy they\u2019ve heard about this. It\u2019s obviously irritating them, this Imam Obama business, but I\u2019ve only been saying that since last week, and his numbers have been plunging for much longer than that. People have long doubted Obama when he says he\u2019s a Christian, long before we got in the game here with the media tweak of Imam Obama. Barack Obama was baptized Christian by a man who Calypso Louie gave a lifetime achievement award. That would be the Reverend Wright. He was baptized Christian by a man who gave Farrakhan a lifetime achievement award named after him, the Jeremiah Wright Award. Jeremiah Wright, people heard the tapes, mainstream ruling class try to ignore them. ‘Ah, doesn\u2019t, that\u2019s a long time ago. Obama didn\u2019t hear a word Wright said in 20 years.\u2019 We don\u2019t believe that. It\u2019s just that simple. We don\u2019t believe that Obama didn\u2019t hear a word that Jeremiah Wright said for 20 years. We don\u2019t believe Obama when he says that he didn\u2019t hear any of that incendiary language when he was in the church. We just don\u2019t believe it. It\u2019s no more complicated than that. We\u2019re not that gullible. Okay, so Juan Williams is all upset, Imam Obama. Last Friday, CNN, John King\u2019s USA had this exchange with Amy Goodman who\u2019s the host of something called Democracy Now.<\/p>\n

KING: If people are confused, if Americans are confused, Amy Goodman, about their president\u2019s faith, whose fault is that?<\/p>\n

GOODMAN: Well, I think when you have somebody like Rush Limbaugh talking about Imam Obama, you know, the problem with that is it\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why are you people asking this question in the first place? If people are confused, if Americans are confused, Amy Goodman, about the president\u2019s faith, might it be the president\u2019s problem? I\u2019ll tell you, there are a lot of media people who are just beside themselves that Obama didn\u2019t clear up the mosque controversy before hitting his vacation. Why didn\u2019t he explain this? He throws that time bomb in there about supporting the mosque and then tries to walk it back and then says no, I really meant it, then leaves it hanging while he goes on vacation. The media says, ‘I don\u2019t understand why he goes on vacation.\u2019 Do you maybe think he meant to say it? Do you think maybe it was on the teleprompter for a reason? He said it at a dinner. It was on the prompter. You think maybe he meant to say it? But why are none of these problems Obama\u2019s? I mean after all, I\u2019m just an entertainer. Half the time these people say I\u2019m just an entertainer, people don\u2019t take me seriously. I come along with the Media Tweak of the Day, Imam Obama, and now it\u2019s my fault that some people don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s a Christian? What about his role in all this? <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Again, the Boston Herald: ‘Obama: Tee-ing Off Nation, 1 Sunday at a Time — Another Sunday, another missed opportunity for President Obama to prove to America he\u2019s not a Muslim.\u2019 That\u2019s how it begins, and they don\u2019t quote me in this. Attention Juan Williams, the Boston Herald does not blame me. They actually blame Obama. He\u2019s going to play golf on Our Lady of the Fairways instead of going to church. Despite every media person last week, and we played the audio sound bites: ‘Please, please, just go to church, pick a church, grab a big Bible, get a 20-pound Bible and lug it in there in a wheelbarrow if you have to, but go to church this Sunday and let people see you.\u2019 What is the only proof we have that Obama\u2019s a Christian? Well, okay, his word, his word. But Jeremiah Wright is the only proof that we have that he\u2019s a Christian. Obama described Wright as his spiritual mentor. Well, sorry, media, we\u2019ve heard Jeremiah Wright. We know what Jeremiah Wright said. We know what he thinks of America. By the way, did Howard Dean say anything about Scott Brown winning the Ted Kennedy seat? I wonder what his prediction was on Martha Coakley holding that seat? <\/p>\n

‘Instead of attending church services at one of the dozens and dozens of quaint, island Christian churches yesterday morning, the commander in chief hit Our Lady of the Fairways, aka the Vineyard Golf Club, yet again, to play 18. Obama again teed off with Chicago pal Eric Whitaker and aide Marvin Nicholson. Rounding out the foursome was Bill Lewis, a regular Vineyard vacationer who played with Obama and Whitaker last year. Once again, the press corps was kept far, far away from the presidential golf party.\u2019 By the way, the Secret Service is riding along in golf carts now rather than SUVs. The golf course owners got a little mad at SUVs in the fairways, which used to happen, and when you follow Obama around you gotta go into the woods which is where his tee shot ends up a lot of times and you never know what\u2019s in the woods out there.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve played this course a number of times. We put anti-aircraft chaff, anti-aircraft missile chaff on EIB One when we go in there. It\u2019s Martha\u2019s Vineyard. You never know when these surface-to-air missiles are going to be launched by the locals. I mean Skip Gates lives in there, you never know. We played this golf course, and it\u2019s a tough golf course. It is very long and very narrow in places, a tough golf course with a lot of fescue, a lot of real hard rough. This is not a fun golf course for a rank amateur, I guarantee you. If you can\u2019t hit the ball — you\u2019re talking 25 or 30-yard-wide fairways. I mean that\u2019s the width of fairways at the US Open and once you get in the rough, I mean it is… you can lose your ball in the rough at the Vineyard Golf Club. It\u2019s a fun course to play, it\u2019s a great clubhouse and all that. <\/p>\n

‘The president\u2019s handlers have said Obama doesn\u2019t attend services regularly because he doesn\u2019t want to be ‘hugely disruptive to congregations.\u2019 This is apparently not an issue on the golf course. Especially now that the Secret Service is following the boss in golf carts instead of those giant SUVs they drove down the fairways last year.\u2019 This is a pretty tough piece, Boston Herald. I mean Our Lady of the Fairways, Obama not going to church, hitting the golf course. Let me tell you something. Churches and golf courses both have people addressing the Lord frequently. People on golf courses talk to God constantly. I\u2019m sure Obama\u2019s doing the same thing.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I didn\u2019t see Fox News Sunday, the original broadcast. I caught a little bit of it later on, but I had a lot of e-mail asking, ‘Doesn\u2019t Juan Williams make you mad?\u2019 No. Folks, let me tell you something. You know, Robert Gibbs used a term a couple of weeks ago that made everybody on the left mad. He referred to the ‘professional left.\u2019 Now, they exist, but you\u2019re not supposed to talk about them. It\u2019s, in a way, a secret. Now, I have described the professional left for you countless times over this program without actually using the terminology ‘the professional left.\u2019 But who are the professional left? They are people that form basic nonprofit groups and think tanks with such sweet-sounding names as ‘The Center for American Progress\u2019 when their purpose is to tear it down, and these people make a living off of disseminating propaganda. <\/p>\n

They turn money into ideology. They ask for donations and they live off of it — and these are people who tell you they do it from the goodness of their heart and they don\u2019t care about money. But they\u2019re all over, the professional left, and Juan Williams is a member. And the professional left reads from a script. They are ideologues; they read from a script. Juan has a role to play, and when it comes to something like the mosque or questions of polling… Remember, by the way, it wasn\u2019t us that brought up this whole notion of whether or not Obama\u2019s a Christian. It was the Pew Center, part of the professional left. They\u2019re supposedly ‘nonpartisan.\u2019 The Pew Center for People and the Press went out and did a poll. <\/p>\n

Now, why did they do a poll? There had to be a reason for this. Something had to make them ask the question. So they come back and their poll shows anywhere from 20 to 25% of the American people think he\u2019s a Muslim and the number of people that think he\u2019s a Christian is plummeting. It can\u2019t be his fault, though. He can\u2019t have any role in it. No, it\u2019s gotta be me for saying ‘Imam Obama.\u2019 The fact that this Amy Goodman blames me, too, tells me that talking points have gone out in the professional left: ‘Okay, this is what we\u2019re gonna assign here as the explanation for this — and we\u2019re also gonna chalk it up to stupid people. The American public is made up of stupid people.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The professional left holds you in contempt. The professional left is ACORN. The professional left is all these militant environmental groups: The Sierra Club, Greenpeace. They\u2019re all the professional left. They\u2019re all 501(c)(3)s. They\u2019re George Soros. People ask, ‘Why don\u2019t the Republicans have these?\u2019 It\u2019s two different modes of thought. I\u2019ve talked about this in this analysis of that great piece in the American Spectator on the ruling class. We, you and I — members of the country class — are oriented toward merit. You know, we want to receive whatever accolades and rewards on the basis of substance. So, my job here is not to fund-raise or to advance an ideology. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m in radio. I have certain requirements, business requirements to succeed here and stay on the air. And I service those. And I happen to also have freedom to be honest. I combine my passions and desires to get what we get here, but I\u2019m not collaborating. I don\u2019t collaborate with anybody else to get a message out. A few people on the right do. But the professional left is all about collaboration, from the universities that train people to work in government (the bureaucrats and so forth). It\u2019s all a giant organization and they have talking points, and they have the things that they\u2019re going to say whether they believe them or not, whatever it takes to advance an agenda, to protect their leaders. So Juan Williams says: Well, it\u2019s all Rush Limbaugh\u2019s fault. <\/p>\n

I know Juan Williams. He\u2019s interviewed me a couple times at Fox. And there have been many times over the course of, oh, recent years where I have received e-mail from people praising Juan Williams because he has said things that let me know that when he is thinking independently he\u2019s not one of these knee-jerk, left-wing reactionaries reading from the talking points fax that\u2019s gone out. Anybody with a modicum of intelligence can know that Obama\u2019s approval numbers have been plummeting, and the main reason is that people are waking up. He\u2019s not who he said he was. People simply don\u2019t believe him anymore. They bought it during the campaign but they don\u2019t believe it anymore. They\u2019re questioning a lot of things that he says because of things he believes. He said he doesn\u2019t believe in American exceptionalism, and people don\u2019t want that in a leader — and they don\u2019t like having the doubt that he\u2019s a Christian. Juan Williams knows it ain\u2019t \u2019cause-a me. He knows I\u2019m not the reason this is happening. He just has to say it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Remember, Juan Williams defended me — major, big time — back in October of 2009, and he was told by another black journalist to go ‘back on the porch.\u2019 He was accused of being an Uncle Tom when he defended me against something. I understand the game. That was during the St. Louis Rams scandal. It was during that whole trumped up, I-never-said-it bunch of quotes they attributed to me. Juan Williams had the audacity to point out the fact that I had not coined the ‘Magic Negro\u2019 phrase for Obama, that an LA Times commentator had, and when Juan Williams pointed that out he was going against the grain of the professional left and the ruling class. ‘Go back on the porch, Juan! Go back to the porch.\u2019 The die had been cast; the marching orders went out: ‘Use these made-up Limbaugh quotes! Say Limbaugh said this! We know he didn\u2019t say it but we\u2019re going to say he did,\u2019 and every liberal sports journalist in the country went with it. This guy in St. Louis, they all went with it. Juan Williams said I never said these things and didn\u2019t coin the term ‘Magic Negro.\u2019 They said, ‘Juan, go sit on the porch.\u2019 <\/p>\n

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RUSH: The media is terribly, terribly upset that Obama flew off on vacation and didn\u2019t close the loop on the mosque at Ground Zero controversy. By the way, how many mosques are there in Martha\u2019s Vineyard? (interruption) I don\u2019t know. Are there any in Martha\u2019s Vineyard? We discussed last year Martha\u2019s Vineyard is actually the home of a long-established, quote, unquote, ‘black enclave.\u2019 It\u2019s called Oak Bluffs. That\u2019s where ‘Skip\u2019 Gates lives. <\/p>\n

Oak Bluffs, the long established black enclave at Martha\u2019s Vineyard, started out as a Christian prayer meeting camp. It was the ‘center of the thriving 19th century Methodist movement. In the area known now as the Martha\u2019s Vineyard Campground Meeting Association (MVCMA) or ‘The Campground,\u2019 members of the Methodist church would come each summer to pitch tents and have open air meetings. As these meetings became more and more popular, returning visitors began replacing the tents with small wooden buildings generally known now as Gingerbread Cottages,\u2019 and the black enclave, Oak Bluffs, thus developed on Martha\u2019s Vineyard. So I just wanna how many mosques are there on Martha\u2019s Vineyard. <\/p>\n

You can\u2019t find any. Researchers even now are attempting to uncover the number of mosques. Check Hyannis Port, check Nantucket, and check Cape Cod while you\u2019re at it. I mean, there are scores of mosques in New York City, not that far from Ground Zero. I\u2019m just asking, here: Are there any mosques in Martha\u2019s Vineyard or Hyannis Port near the Kennedy compound? By the way, Snerdley, the Justice Department is also seeking witch doctors. I\u2019m serious, folks. They\u2019re seeking witchdoctors to help some… (interruption) You don\u2019t be down with the witchdoctor thing, yo? (interruption) You not down for Santeria? You not down…? (interruption) Okay. (interruption) You don\u2019t play there? All right. ‘Homey don\u2019t play Santeria. Homey don\u2019t play witchdoctor, yo.\u2019 There\u2019s one mosque in all of Cape Cod, one mosque in all of Cape Cod. It\u2019s the Islamic Center of Cape Cod in Osterville, Massachusetts. Osterville, Massachusetts? Osterville, Massachusetts. Yeah, they don\u2019t actually have a building. They\u2019re kinda loose right now, and that\u2019s in the middle of the Cape. Here\u2019s Mark Halperin this morning on Scarborough\u2019s show, Morning Joe, on MSNBC during a discussion about Obama and the Ground Zero mosque.<\/p>\n

HALPERIN: Maybe he\u2019ll look in on this. He\u2019s made this a national issue. It\u2019s — it\u2019s unresolved. He and Michael Bloomberg have to resolve it.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: You\u2019re shocked that the president went on vacation without clarifying this, aren\u2019t you?<\/p>\n

HALPERIN: I am. And I\u2019m — and I\u2019m shocked thaaaat he doesn\u2019t see the day — day-to-day damage. And if he does see the day-to-day damage, I\u2019m shocked that he\u2019s not addressing it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is where those of us in the real world listen to the ruling class media and we scratch our heads and say, ‘Do you really think this guy doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing? Do you really think…?\u2019 How can you tell us, Mark Halperin, all during the campaign that Obama is the smartest wizard ever, the most unifying man to ever trod American political soil — a man who is going to bridge all the divides; that\u2019s postracial, post-American, postpartisan, postpolitical, postachievement; that he\u2019s the smartest guy ever…? In fact, Margaret Carlson and others last week said on the mosque business: ‘It\u2019s our fault. We just can\u2019t keep up with him. He\u2019s too smart. He needs to slow it down for our benefit.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, how can you say that and be part of that line of thinking and then express shock that the most brilliant president we\u2019ve ever had doesn\u2019t close the loop on the mosque controversy that he started? Could it be, Mr. Halperin, he has got exactly what he wanted out of this? If you look at the country, Mark, and the rest of you in the media, you see a pretty divided place and you see a president who can see that it\u2019s divided, and he doesn\u2019t seem to care. In fact, he seems to be feeding off of the division. There\u2019s so much division in the country that your own polling units are the ones asking the question: ‘Do you think Obama\u2019s a Christian? Do you think Obama\u2019s a Muslim?\u2019 <\/p>\n

Your own polling units are asking this about the president of the United States, and you want to turn around and blame the people of the country here for bigotry, racism, or stupidity, or what have you? In fact, all you have to do is answer your own question. ‘I\u2019m shocked that he doesn\u2019t see the day-to-day damage that his public pronouncement caused\u2019? Of course he sees it! He says it. He sees it. He knows what you guys are gonna do is blame me and others in the media while he\u2019s out playing golf. He\u2019ll be back in a week and he can feed off of it. It\u2019s not really complicated at all. I just marvel here at these people in the press who, on the one hand, say this is the smartest guy we\u2019ve ever had and on the other hand say he does dumb things every day that they just don\u2019t understand. <\/p>\n

You gotta stick with the ‘meme.\u2019 The meme is he\u2019s brilliant. So you gotta put everything under that umbrella. You gotta ask yourself: ‘What are you missing?\u2019 like the rest of us. We\u2019re too stupid to keep up with the fast brilliance of Obama. So what are we missing here? That needs to be the question, not why is he being stupid. (interruption) There are zero mosques on Martha\u2019s Vineyard and zero mosques in Nantucket. Speak of the devil. From Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs blog… We\u2019re going to see if this floats, if it floats up this week. ‘Newly Discovered Tapes Reveal Imam Rauf\u2019s Support of Wahhabism &amp; Elimination of Israel — Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs reported: <\/p>\n

”Steve Emerson has unearthed 13 hours of audio tape of Imam Rauf. Emerson [a terrorism expert] and his team of investigators has spent the past four weeks going through the newly found material. Rauf is a ‘radical extremist cleric who cloaks himself in sheep\u2019s clothing.\u2019 Among the shocking revelations Emerson\u2019s team will reveal next week — they found Rauf: Defending wahhabism — a puritanical version of Islam that governs Saudi Arabia. Calling for the elimination of Israel by claiming a one-nation state, meaning no more Jewish State. Defending Bin Laden\u2019s violence. Demonstrating that there is a lot more to this man than merely a cleric.” So we\u2019ll see if this floats up.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: It was from Thursday, October 15th last year, 2009, on the O\u2019Reilly Factor, the host Ted Baxter talking to Juan Williams and the radio host Warren Ballentine about me. Ted Baxter said, ‘The reason that Limbaugh is not going to be able to buy into the NFL is because a bunch of made-up stuff became legend and he got hammered.\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

BAXTER: Okay, we won\u2019t look at the made-up stuff. Let\u2019s look at him playing ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro” on his show. That\u2019s not racial, either. It is racial to real black people.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: Hey, Warren. Hey, Warren. You were saying that I was — my argument was a red herring. Maybe you should do some research, go back and find out that it was an article written by a black person headlined about ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro.”<\/p>\n

BAXTER: But he made it out of a song and play — he made it out of a song and played it on his show.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: So what? He\u2019s making fun of it.<\/p>\n

BAXTER: Juan (cross-talk) it\u2019s okay, you can go back to the porch.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Juan, you can go to the back porch. There\u2019s Juan Williams defending me. I like Juan Williams. When he starts spouting this: (pararphrasing) ‘Yeah, Obama\u2019s numbers are tanking because of Rush Limbaugh and Imam Obama.\u2019 He knows. He knows. I mean it\u2019s just part of the game out there that they, the professional left have to play. <\/p>\n

Tony in Miami as we start on the phones today, great to have you with us, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. Pleasure to speak with you, Mr. Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: It\u2019s an honor. Just a couple of comments regarding Imam Rauf. Apparently he made some comments today that reiterate some things he said before concerning the purpose of this mosque is to build bridges, this whole notion of interfaith tolerance and yada yada yada. What just drives me absolutely bonkers about this is that if anybody reads the text of Islam, that\u2019s the Koran and the Hadith, the Surahs, they do not espouse notions of tolerance, of interfaith and all the stuff that these folks on the left as well as the willful ignorant are spouting. It\u2019s heartbreaking really because of the fact that it\u2019s undermining our Constitution, our nation, our republic. If you know anything about Islam, it is not tolerant of other faiths. It certainly is not compatible with the Constitution, yet you get this constant repeated message, this mantra from the left, and it\u2019s just — <\/p>\n

RUSH: What does it tell you? What does it tell you that a mosque, a religious mosque has become a left versus right issue? What does it tell you about the left? The left doesn\u2019t care about religious freedom 364 days of the year. The left that\u2019s really bugged and bothered by the Christian right practicing their faith, they don\u2019t like the Christian right. So here\u2019s one day a year, one issue they happen to care about property rights, they don\u2019t care about those, either, unless they\u2019re in favor of the kangaroo rat owning the property or the snug rat, whatever the hell else that they defend. What does it tell you? And here comes the right, which happens to fall on the side of American tradition. What does it tell you? It should tell you who the American left is. Something else that I think ought to be picked up, ought to be noted about this, when all this kinda controversy comes up, when they hijack our jets and fly two of them into the World Trade Center, what\u2019s the first thing our ruling class does? They convene seminars and say, ‘Why don\u2019t they like us?\u2019 Does Islam ever ask itself — again, with this mosque controversy, are the Islamists ever saying, ‘What is their problem with us?\u2019 No, they\u2019re not asking that question. They are accusing us of Islamophobia. So whereas, you know, some of us say, ‘Why do they hate us?\u2019 They never ask that. They never ask, ‘What are we doing wrong?\u2019 They never ask, ‘What could we do to appease these people?\u2019 They don\u2019t ask that question. We\u2019re the ones that do that, think it\u2019s relevant, means something. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right, we just have done the research here. Seven mosques total in all of Massachusetts. There are over 30 mosques in Manhattan alone, and a hundred throughout the five boroughs. Now, in regards to the previous caller, if the builders of the mosque at Ground Zero, if they were really into bridge building, outreach, this is the perfect situation. Agree to move it. If that was really their purpose here, really into outreach, really, really wanna build a bridge to us, move it. That would be a magnificent gesture, but they\u2019re not doing that, are they? So you have to question how much outreach is really involved here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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