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RUSH: Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, we dusted off our Peace Update with Slim Whitman<\/a>, Una Paloma Blanca. Because two days ago I had noticed, sadly, that there were no peace protesters marching in the streets in peace capitals like New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston. It wasn\u2019t happening, and we had just gone to war. We had just gone at war in Iraq. we had just gone at war in Syria. We had just gone at war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

An American president was launching bombs, dropping bombs on potentially innocent citizens. And where was the peace movement? Where were the peace protests? They were nowhere. I was told, “Well, that\u2019s because they\u2019re worn out from the weekend\u2019s activities protesting climate change.” So I begged them. I said, ‘Come on, you guys, I\u2019m prepared here to dust off Slim Whitman! I want to do a Peace Update and you guys aren\u2019t protesting.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>So they showed up yesterday, but not in large… Well, two days ago they showed up, but 50 was about it. I mean, it was pathetic. It was a real embarrassment to the peace movement, but they showed up. Now, ladies and gentlemen, we have a theory as to why. Breitbart.com<\/a>: “Finally somebody has found the courage to explain why the usual suspects are not protesting Obama\u2019s wars in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n

“And it\u2019s long-time professional liberal activists, David Swanson and Medea Benjamin,” Code Pink, and the reason? “It\u2019s because Obama is black,” and they\u2019re cutting him some slack because he\u2019s black. “As President Barack Obama launches air strikes in Syria, anti-war activists are frustrated that he is getting a pass from groups traditionally opposed to military intervention.<\/line><\/p>\n

“According to the Washington Post, only 22 anti-war activists protested near the White House this week, and ‘it was the latest display of how Obama has neutralized the left.\u2019 Left-wing activist David Swanson, ‘who voted for Obama in 2008…\u2019 told the Post that ‘if George W. Bush were launching wars with Congress out of town, oh, it would be flooded,'” and San Francisco\u2019d be flooded. <\/p>\n

If this were Bush doing this with Congress out of town and without a declaration of war and without a sign-off on from Congress, you would have seen the streets flooded. But we\u2019re not seeing the streets flooded. “[L]iberals give Obama a pass because ‘he\u2019s more eloquent, he\u00c2\u2019s more intelligent, he\u2019s African American, he bills himself as a constitutional scholar.'” I kid you not. <\/line><\/p>\n

This is how disingenuous and insincere the peace movement really is. It\u2019s how disingenuous and insincere the anti-war movement really is, if all it takes to get them to shut up and sit down is you just have to make it look like you\u2019re smart, be eloquent, look like you\u2019re more intelligent than Bush, and be African-American. If you are able to pull that off, the peace movement will not protest for peace. <\/p>\n

You can go out there and kill anybody you want. You can drop bombs anywhere you want, and the peace movement will sit on its collective butt and let you! “Medea Benjamin of Code Pink said ‘the black community is traditionally the most antiwar community in this country,\u2019 but Obama has ‘defanged that sentiment within the black community, or certainly voicing that sentiment.'”<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s why. It\u2019s not as though we didn\u2019t know, either. I just wanted to get it on record from their mouths. They\u2019re the ones who are telling us that the whole peace movement is political, like everything else they do. It isn\u2019t really about peace, and they\u2019re really not worried about collateral damage. All they want to do is disrupt and damage Republican presidents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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