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EIB Thursday:
 Cohen Echoes Rush: Michelle "Lobotomized"RUSH: By the way, my friends, I was not the only one to observe that Michelle Obama's speech was actually not the real Michelle Obama, and that she threw feminism away. She tried to make herself out June Cleaver and Mrs. Partridge -- all for the express purpose of trying to make white people like her and her husband, which we thought that had already been accomplished.
Obama Writes Justice Department on Ayers AdPhoto: Bill Ayers, in Whose House Obama Lauched his Political Career, Stomping the FlagRUSH: This 527 and the millionaire donor from Texas that are running ads about Obama and William Ayers -- and, by the way, we have a picture here of Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist, standing on the American flag in a recent photo, in recent years, as an adult. And of course Obama's specious defense is that Ayers was doing all that garbage when Obama was just eight years old. Of course, we nuked that yesterday because Ayers has not apologized.
The idea that Obama is 35, 40, or whatever he is, or 47 and knows what Ayers did, and Ayers hasn't apologized for it? Obama's camp knows they're in the wringer on this one, because this ad specifically -- and very well -- nails the relationship of Obama to this unrepentant terrorist who wanted to blow up the Pentagon and the Capitol Building and so forth, much like the Al-Qaeda people wanted to blow up the Capitol Building in 2001. So the Obama people have fired off a letter to the justice department demanding that the primary donor to this 527, the Texas millionaire, be prosecuted. Be prosecuted! It'd be no different than if we started asking the justice did to prosecute George Soros. By the way, that group has now fired back, and they have sent a response letter to the justice department basically nuking the whole effort.
Howard Dean Says Messiah Will Change MessageRUSH: This is from The Hill, the Capitol Hill newspaper: "Howard Dean said Tuesday that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will unveil 'a different message for a different audience' in the general election campaign, as opposed to the one he used to capture the Democratic presidential nomination." Now, the question that I have: How many times does Obama get to change? So now he's not going to change anything? Or he is going to change? Change the message for the general? What was the message for the primaries?
The message for the primaries was, "I'm The Messiah!" And people have been debating: "When did it start going south for Obama?" When you try to answer that question, you say, "Okay, if it went south during the trip to Europe and Baghdad and so forth, why do this outdoor, open-air, in-front-of-75,000-people speech on Thursday night if you're not trying to recapture what you've lost?" Yet here's Howard Dean, the most foolish chairman of the DNC in my lifetime -- and that's saying something, given some of the nut jobs the Clintons put in there. But he's going to do this giant show with this Greek temple? This is not a happenstance choice of a set.
So if he's going to do this, is he not trying to recapture what he lost in the primaries? Is he not trying to recapture this whole messiah business? Are we gonna get people fainting in the crowd? I think the moment is over, though. You can't go back, because the illusion has been busted. The magic act, we learned the trick, so we're not going to be fooled by it anymore. I don't know what he can do now. If he starts getting specific, he'll be in a world of hurt. Pelosi is telling Democrats, "Don't worry. These polls are underestimating him." Nancy, these polls are overestimating Obama -- and if anybody wants to know when it started going south for Barack Obama, it's called Operation Chaos in Ohio and Texas. Thank you.
Clinton Compares Obama to Chicago Street ThugRUSH: Here's a Politico story by John Harris that was filed yesterday, and the relevant paragraph is: "Bill Clinton believes the Democratic nominee, far from practicing a unifying, transformational brand of politics, has the political instincts of 'a Chicago thug,' one longtime associate said. Clinton has told people that Obama allowed surrogates to try to suppress Hispanic turnout in the Nevada caucuses, and played 'the race card' in reverse against the Clintons in South Carolina and other states." That did happen. I mean, it was long overdue, it was well deserved, having the race card thrown in reverse, but nevertheless, this is what Clinton actually thinks of Obama. It's like a mob war. It really is. The Clintons are a mob and so is Obama. Nobody comes out of Chicago politics as what Obama is trying to portray himself to be.
But the Chicago thug comment, the reason why this is relevant, is because Obama, his history in Chicago politics has not been to level the playing field. It has not been a fair fight among honorable opponents. The Obama way has been to clear the playing field, to get rid of opponents, to wipe them out -- which he did to get elected the first couple times to state office. I mean, he successfully found ways I think to disqualify three different opponents and maybe four. The reason this is relevant is because when we thing of the soft-spoken, gentle, articulate, anointed, all-knowing messiah -- and he's just a typical politician. They're like the Clintons. Just get rid of anything in your way, just destroy whoever's in your way. Don't defeat them. Destroy them so they can't come back. This is who the guy is, and Clinton told this to somebody, said he reminds him of a Chicago thug politician. The effort here to deal with this ad that Obama doesn't like is a clear indication of who he really is and what this campaign is all about, and it also illustrates how sensitive an issue William Ayers and Obama's associations are.
Russian Car Show Features SUVs, Gas-GuzzlersRUSH: I look at this story, and I just scratch my head. Here are the Russians. The Russians have a big car show. Their car show in Moscow -- and we have car shows; car shows in Detroit, car shows all over the place. What are our car shows of? Our car shows made up of cars that nobody's ever going to build -- really cool looking cars nobody's ever gonna build. Our car shows have become, "Here's the latest lawn mower with two seats on it called a bubble car and a Smart Car." The Russians are showing off "fuel-guzzling trucks" and SUVs. Those "vehicles took centre stage at the Moscow car show, flaunting the indifference of Russian buyers to fuel economy and climate change as they project growing wealth," since they conquered Georgia, "through their cars. International carmakers, who premiered bigger and more powerful machines at the semi-annual event this year, seemed to grasp the prejudice against fuel-saving cars in Russia..." Hell, yes! You know, they don't have any environmentalist wackos there! They're in Siberia! Look at this. What are we doing? We're trying to downsize ourselves out of superpower status. The American left, in conjunction with Democrat Party, is moving us in that direction. Meanwhile, the ChiComs are building big, and the Russians are building big, and the Russians are producing their own oil -- and we have to deal with fools like Nancy Pelosi, who wouldn't know a gasoline pump if she saw one... unless it was parked next to an abortion doctor's office.
New Orleans Considers Early Evacuation for GustavRUSH: New Orleans is now considering evacuating. Hurricane Gustav models indicate that New Orleans is closer than not to where they think it's going to go. But, you know, it really is early. This thing is only moving five miles an hour. It did finally change direction. We here in Florida have become lay-experts, if you will, on these things, and I follow this stuff religiously. This thing is a category three or category four when it gets to the Gulf of Mexico, they say, but it's moving very slowly. Here's the way we in Florida look at this. There is a high-pressure ridge over the Bahamas and Florida, and hurricanes don't like high pressure so they avoid it. So this high-pressure area is here, but it is moving east, slowly, but it's moving east. It's going to be outta here someday. This hurricane will track to the west, around the high-pressure ridge, and then turn northwest. What are you laughing at in there, Dawn? Oh, yeah, I could do weather on TV. But this thing is going to turn around the high-pressure ridge, but it's got to speed up to beat the high-pressure ridge. If the high-pressure ridge moves before the hurricane moves far enough west and it's going only five miles an hour, then the right side right side of the cone comes into play, and that's Tampa. Right now no models take it there, a couple take it pretty close, but if this thing doesn't speed up, then, of course, the turn to the northwest will happen sooner.
But if their forecast is right, or close to right, New Orleans is once again here in the bull's-eye, and so they're already making plans to evacuate the city way in advance of when they started that process when Hurricane Katrina hit. Bobby Jindal said if it does go, he's not going to the Republican convention, he's not going to go there because he's the governor of Louisiana. I just saw something funny. I was watching CNBC, which is not known for weather news. It's a financial network. They ran a crawl at the bottom of the screen that said: "National Hurricane Center moves forecast track east." I said, "What?" So I watched it, and it's the same 11 o'clock track forecast. They're not going to update it 'til five o'clock Eastern time. It's the same forecast at 11 that they're saying now was new. It's not new. In fact, the hurricane has made its turn west, as they thought it would do last night. And then they ran a graphic that said: "National Hurricane Center says, 'Pay little attention to our track,'" essentially. Again, the media doesn't know what they're doing.
Obama Promises More Than Mere Rhetoric
RUSH: Anyway, Obama's speech tomorrow night, cleaning up the mess that will hopefully be made tonight, he promises a speech with "more purpose and not mere rhetoric." He "promised to accept the US Democratic presidential nomination with a 'workman-like speech' offering policy details and not simply his trademark rhetoric. Critics say it isn't enough for him to promise change and hope without spelling out how he intends to do that if elected on November 4. 'I'm not aiming for a lot of high rhetoric.'" This is what Obama says of his speech tomorrow night, "'I'm much more concerned with communicating how I intend to help middle-class families live their lives.'" This is what he said to reporters in Illinois. Now, Senator Obama, we in the United States are adults, and we do not need the likes of you or any president or any politician telling us how to live our lives. What we want from you is to get out of our lives as much as possible and cut our taxes. We do not want you to tell us how to live our lives. But you see, he says that he's very proud of this. He thinks this is what a lot of voters want to hear, and of certain people, you know, certain Democrats, they do want the government to live their life for them so to make it less painful, they think, as it can be.
Hey, Drive-Bys! The Messiah Is the MessageRUSH: New York Times today, story by Jackie Calmes: "For Obama, a Challenge to Clarify His Message." Now, I'm reading all these stories about Obama, and I honestly have not gotten the impression that this is a Barack Obama convention so far. We've been through two nights of this convention, and I'll be damned if I have even gotten the message that this convention is about Obama. He doesn't have control over this convention. This has been a convention about the Clintons. I don't even remember who spoke Monday night. This is how unmemorable it was. Who were the big speakers on Monday night at the Democrat convention? Who were they? Do you remember, Brian? Snerdley, who were the big speakers Monday night? I can't even remember on opening night. Oh, yeah, yeah. See? And Ted Kennedy. Exactly right. And even when Michelle -- I just don't get the impression this is about Obama, and now here comes this story, "A Challenge to Clarify His Message"? Well, I know he's been running on hope, but that's the point. I thought he's The Messiah, we don't need a message. I mean he's this sweeping, transformational, post-racial, never-before-seen-in-American-politics kind of guy.
The message is irrelevant. It's his charisma and the power of his personality. I know all that's blown over, but the Drive-Bys do not get the irony of the absolute worthlessness of their reporting on this guy. They had him built up as somebody that was not going to be held to the usual standards of American politics because he so transcended American politics. Now he has a chance to clarify his message? If you gotta clarify, that means it's muddled, it means it hasn't gotten out. And if the message hasn't gotten out, if it's muddled, then what has there been to so idolize and love about Obama? All of a sudden now he's gotta clarify his message?
Rev. Al Sharpton Not Happy with the Clintons
RUSH: Los Angeles Times blog, The Top of the Ticket. The Reverend Al Sharpton "is not happy with the Clintons." This is from yesterday. "With the Democratic National Convention abuzz with anticipation over Hillary Clinton's speech [last] tonight ... Al Sharpton says she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, cannot afford anything less than an extraordinary effort to help Barack Obama's presidential candidacy -- beginning this week with an intensified push for party loyalty. Otherwise, Sharpton warned today, their reputations within the party -- once sterling -- could be permanently tarnished. 'It can damage their legacy in the long run if they don't get a grip pretty quick,' Sharpton told The Times." I'll bet that really has 'em quaking in their boots over at Clinton central, Al Sharpton warning. Al's smart enough to know what's going to happen here. By the way, Al, you took a little while to get on board this train. Don't forget, Al, you were all upset over Biden's comment that "finally" the Democrats had a "clean, articulate" black guy. You were holding back, holding back, Reverend Sharpton, 'cause you were a little jealous out there. You take showers; you're a clean guy, and here are the Democrats going all ape over this new guy that doesn't have any street cred like you do. So he was late on the table as well.
Obama Will Remove Ceiling on FICA TaxRUSH: We've been sold a bill of goods here, or the Democrats have. And what is Obama's message on the economy besides tax increases? What is it? Well, in case you missed it, the Wall Street Journal has a story he's going to propose middle class tax cuts in his speech tomorrow. Just like the one you all got in the early nineties, right, remember Bill Clinton, "I haven't ever, ever worked as hard as I've worked on trying to get that middle class tax cut, but when I got in there and I saw how Bush had totally blown up this economy, it's worse than I even knew folks. We just cannot find a way for that middle class tax cut." Besides, the dirty little secret is there have been so many middle class tax cuts that there's not much to cut.
I'll tell you people this, too, if this guy gets his way, one thing that's going to go up, everybody is talking about, "Well, he's only going to take the top income tax rate back up to what Clinton has, 39.6%." Oh, oh, oh, oh. He's going to end the ceiling on FICA taxes. He thinks $250,000 is rich. Certain people above $250,000, if Obama gets his way, you could see an effective combined federal tax rate of 55%, by the time you add your federal income tax and Social Security and Medicare, you could be paying as high as 55 to 60%. You're probably not going to get any increased benefits, of course not, 'cause the system's broke. You're not going to get any increased benefits out of it. It's going to be used to pay current retirees and so forth. But stop and think of 55 to 60% combined rate. You'll never see it written anywhere, but you add it and up that's what it will be. I think right now, what is it, $102,000, after you've earned $102, you don't pay anymore. He wants to take that away. |
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Rush Bio
Rush Limbaugh launched his phenomenally successful radio broadcast into national syndication on August 1, 1988, with 56 radio stations. Seventeen years later it is heard on nearly 600 stations by 20 million people each week and is the highest rated national radio talk show in America. Known as the media pundit who reshaped the political landscape with his entertaining and informative brand of conservatism, Mr. Limbaugh is also widely credited with resuscitating AM radio by many industry experts.
 In addition to his radio program, broadcast weekdays from noon to 3 p.m. ET, Mr. Limbaugh hosts "The Rush Limbaugh Morning Update," a 90-second commentary which debuted in March 1992 and airs Monday through Friday at 7:45a during The Dan Sileo Show on 540 WFLA. "The Rush Limbaugh Show" and "The Rush Limbaugh Morning Update" are produced and distributed by Premiere Radio Networks.
With his diverse media background, Mr. Limbaugh is also the author of "The Limbaugh Letter," the most widely read political newsletter in the country, as well as two best-selling books, The Way Things Ought to Be and See, I Told You So, which have sold more than 8.9 million copies. The sales of See, I Told You So set an American publishing record.
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Mr. Limbaugh has been profiled on CBS’s "60 Minutes," ABC’s "20/20," and in numerous publications including US News and World Report, National Review, Time Magazine and USA Weekend. Other guest television appearances include ABC’s "Nightline" with Ted Koppel, CNN’s "Crossfire," "Good Morning America," "CBS This Morning," "The Today Show," "The Phil Donahue Show," "The Late Show with David Letterman," "The Tonight Show," "This Week," with David Brinkley, and "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert.
Recognized for his achievements, Mr. Limbaugh received the Marconi Award for Syndicated Radio Personality of the Year given by the National Association of Broadcasters in 1992, 1995, and 2000. In 1993, he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame and in 1998, into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
Born Rush Hudson Limbaugh III in Jan. 1951 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri to a family with generations of attorneys, he chose to explore his passion for broadcasting at age 16 by working on-air as a disc jockey for a radio station in his hometown. After four years, he left for Pittsburgh to work at the former ABC owned and operated KQV. He later moved to Kansas City where he eventually tired of disc jockey life and left broadcasting for business. He joined the Kansas City Royals as director of group sales in Feb. 1979 and later served as director of sales and special events.
By 1983, Mr. Limbaugh got the broadcasting bug back and re-entered radio as a political commentator for KMBZ in Kansas City. A year later, he was the host of a daytime talk show on KFBK in Sacramento, Calif., where he nearly tripled the program’s ratings in four years. From there, he went to New York in 1988 where his record-breaking national show was born.
Rush currently resides in Florida, and often broadcasts from his "EIB Southern Command." |
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EIB Wednesday August 27, 2008
Wednesday 08-27-2008 8:37pm ET
Dems Prepare Messianic Temple
RUSH: Well, ladies and gentlemen, I hear now that they're having second thoughts, some of the Obama people, not Obama himself, but some of the Obama people are having second thoughts about this charade tomorrow night at Mile High. People not liking the way this is looking. I got a note from a friend of mine who is Jewish and informed me of some things. I didn't know that Jewish people do not like fiery, charismatic speakers speaking before tens thousands at night with lights shining on them. A Jewish friend of mine told me this and said, "Nobody's going to ever comment on this," but it's going to have to a profound effect if it looks like it reminds people of something in areas of the country where Jewish people live it's not going to be helpful, shall we say, to The Obama -- sorry -- The Messiah. Now, you have probably heard, maybe you have seen pictures of the set that Obama will address the nation on tomorrow night. It is a Greek temple. It is a mock-up of a Greek temple like the Parthenon. Now, when I saw that I said, "There's gotta be a reason for this." These kinds of decisions to build this thing, this is not just somebody's idea, a brainstorm idea that happened. There is a reason behind this.
I wanted to look up the whole idea behind the role of the temple. Here is what I found. Greek temples were built to honor and glorify the patron deity. They were built as the gods' house on earth and usually held a cult statue featuring a god. "Most religious buildings today are intended for congregational worship where groups of people get together on a regular basis, celebrate their God, and receive spiritual comfort. Ancient Greek temples were rarely used this way. They were meant to serve as homes for the individual god or goddess who protected and sustained the community." I can't believe they are doing this. (laughing) They are cementing this whole messiah notion. "It was the needs of the gods that were most important. They controlled the forces of nature, the sun and rain which nourished their crops and the winds which drove their ships." I mean, this could be Algore speaking. Oh, yeah, the gods are certainly in charge of the level of the oceans, the seas rising and falling. "Although generally benevolent, the gods could be quite capricious and were liable to turn against the community, so it was in everyone's interests to make sure that they should feel completely at home in their temple," the gods. "Their houses were the finest, equipped with a staff of servants to look after their every need. They receive daily offerings of food and drink along with a proper share of the harvest and the profits of any trading or military activity." This is the image behind Obama tomorrow night at Invesco Field at Mile High. Now, I know that this is a Greek temple, but it will, to a lot of people, also look like a Roman temple. And you all know what happened at one time in the Roman temple. Could it be that tomorrow night on Barack Obama's Greek temple, somebody named Clinton will succeed in stabbing The Messiah in the back?
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Show Highlight: This is the first time since 1976 that the loser is more popular than the winner at a convention. Hillary held back her full support from Obama, and didn't even repudiate the McCain ad quoting her!
Pearl of Wisdom: "Anybody who watched Hillary speak last night knew it was all about her. It was about delinking herself from Obama and from her husband. It was not an endorsement of Obama. It did not do anything to get that convention rallied behind Obama. If anybody thinks that Mrs. Clinton did this rousing rah-rah for Obama, you don't know the Clintons, and you don't know how to listen to a speech." The Clinton Era isn't over. The Clintons want the White House back. If Obama wins it'll be harder to do, but they're not fading away. Just look at Clinton's "candidate X and Y" dig. He's constantly undermining The Messiah.
Politico: Can Clintons Get Over It? Bill Likens Obama to "Chicago Street Thug"
A black Hillary delegate is very wise through her tears: Obama lacks experience. Clinton brought back Mark Penn, who the Obamas hate? It's another slap in the face.
Hillary plays the victim card very well: a qualified woman passed over for a man.
Obama is comparing himself to JFK and Dr. King. Fast Eddie Rendell compares him to Adlai Stevenson -- the elitist Democrat who lost huge in the election of '52!
» Prowler: Pelosi's Big Mouth is the Last Problem Obama Wanted
» Hot Air: Conservative Dems Bail on Obama; No Michelle Bounce Seen
Mike Huckabee calls Rush: Denies that he slurred Mormons, denies report that he had a deal with McCain to beat Romney in WV.
The latest buzz: McCain will pick a woman as his vice presidential runing mate.
Learn it, live it, love it: This is a golden opportunity for the GOP. They face a party run by idiots, who have nominated a leftist dweeb.
Pearl of Wisdom: "I have to give the McCain campaign this. They're coming back fast and furious with some great ads, with humor. It's almost like I were putting the ads together myself, using the Democrats' own words to laugh at Obama and make points."
[ More...Rush ] EIB Tuesday August 26, 2008
Tuesday 08-26-2008 9:33pm ET
The Official Obama Criticizer
 SNERDLEY: This is Bo Snerdley, Official Barack Criticizer for the EIB Network, certified black enough to criticize with a blend of imported and domestic 100% fortified slave blood. I have a statement. Mr. Obama -- well, actually, Mrs. Obama. Although your husband issued an edict prohibiting criticism of you during this campaign, I have to comment on your performance last night. It was evident, my dear, that you have been handled. We did not see the real Michelle, the one that could define or give context to all the things we've heard from you during the campaign. That image you would have us buy last night didn't explain away how come, as an adult, you were only proud for the first time to be an American, or why this is a mean country. The "I love this country" line, it was a little trite. It was a must-read, a must-say. And that line about Mrs. Clinton, we all know she tried to knife your husband in the back all during the campaign. Look, black women have a different perception of America. You could have explained why you think what you think, without hurting yourself or your husband. You could have cleared things up for everybody. But instead, you papered things over with a nondescript presentation that could have come from Martha Stewarts America. I could go on, but instead, how about a detailed analysis for EIB brothers and sisters in the 'hood. Yo, Shell, let me give you your props first, yo. You was looking lace last night, yo, girl, you got it like that, no doubt. I almost could hope the brother could win so I could scope you out for the next four years, you know, but it ain't that kind of party here. Check it out, Shelly. What was up with you last night, girl? The big lights all up on you and you come out frontin' instead of breaking it down, yo? Ever since you broke about being proud for the first time, you've been taking heat. Last night was your chance, yo. You said America was mean, everybody went off on you. Last night you coulda explain it, okay, you could explain also why they hid you out for so long. You get all the face time; what do we get? Instead of you breaking it off to everybody, you coulda told 'em like, yo, listen, yeah sometimes I'm mad, check it out, if you came from where I came from you be mad, too, okay? Schools all messed up, brothers can't get no jobs, yo. I got out, I got to Princeton, my honey, yo, he went to Harvard. We kind of broke but everybody else they ain't living large, okay, yeah, I'm mad. You all be mad, too, if this was going on in your neighborhood, okay, criminals running all up and down the street, come on, yo, it ain't like that up in white land where Hillary live, okay? But no, what did you do? Man, look, you coulda even said you know what? The hospitals, yo, they even like, you know, throwing old black people out on the streets -- oh, wait I'm sorry, yo, you couldn't go there, right? But, look, you are a strong black sister, yo, come from our culture, you were out there fronting like you Michelle Partridge, hee-hee, everything is cute, okay, come on, you coulda told them, for instance, Fourth of July, yo man, we ain't down with that, June 15th is when we're free, but that don't mean we don't love America, everybody is down with this, you know? Okay, look, Michelle, you Obama's shorty, you got the slave blood, he don't. You supposed to understand what it is, and you are supposed to break it down for us. What did you do? You were fronting, girl. Fake. Okay? But like I said, sister, you was looking laced and, you know, that counts for something. That concludes this statement. RUSH: That is the Official Obama Criticizer of the EIB Network, Bo Snerdley.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: A number of questions I checked during the break here in the 24/7 e-mail in box. A lot of questions of Mr. Snerdley, and I know the answer. Sounds like your official criticism made it sound like the people in the hood didn't buy the act last night, and will it hurt, you know, get some of the people in the hood thinking they're selling out on us. It's not going to happen in great numbers. Some people are going to think if it keeps up.
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Rush recaps the speech of the Stepford wife Michelle Obama. Now, she says she loves her country. Rush replays her unscripted feelings.
Show Highlight: "Michelle Obama was out there last night to present a vision of the Obama family that makes white people comfortable with voting for them. It was an effort to portray her as an average mother. I'm sure she is a wonderful mother, but what of all the hateful things that she said about her own country when she was off script? That's what was in her heart. Is this all supposed to be forgotten now? Yep."
This was a flat night, folks. No one said "Bush," or "McCain. There was no hate, no anger. They sent "liberal lion" Ted Kennedy out to play gramps. That's not who he is.
By responding, Obama has validated an independent ad exposing his friendship with unrepentant (and that's key) terrorist Bill Ayers, whose Weatherman group bombed the Capitol Building. Ayers still says his fellow terrorists should've bombed more. That's today, folks, not when Obama was eight-years-old.
» Michael Barone: Obama Needs to Explain His Ties to William Ayers
» American Spectator: McCain Calls on Obama to Apologize For Ayers
Pearl of Wisdom: "The conventional wisdom is the Democrats are this juggernaut. They're going to score big, win the White House, and run Congress with majorities that haven't been seen in 35 or 40 years. Don't buy the hype. They're not unbeatable. I have the sense that it's going to blow up on them."
Another day, another Obama tie to a radical leftist. This time, it's Saul Alinsky.
DNC-TV! The anchors on MSNBC see The Obamas as "The Huxtables." Obama was in Kansas City, but thought he was in arch-rival St. Louis.
Pearl of Wisdom: "When Hillary gets up there tonight, she's going to show the Obama people who the real politicians are. She's going to be telling this convention, 'See what you blew? You coulda had me. This was mine, and you took it away for the dweeb!'"
The same Democrats who supported Hillary Clinton when her husband cheated and lied, trash poor Elizabeth Edwards for helping The Breck Girl cover-up his affair.
» The Associated Press: Edwards' Wife Criticized for Silence on Affair
Katie Couric asks of the Obamas, "Do you think the voters really want to see a couple who is faithful...?" and Jeff Greenfield says yes! What a change from the Clinton era.
Carville and Gergen say it was a wasted night. Jeffrey Toobin makes the absurd claim that Democrats don't know how to attack, even as Paul Begala attacked Congressman Jim Leach. Leach is a moderate Republican who's at the Democrat convention and supports Obama, and Begala wants him out!
Could Rush get away with this? Jimmy Carter calls Obama "this black boy."
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EIB Monday August 25, 2008
Monday 08-25-2008 10:08pm ET
The Arrogance of Nancy Pelosi
RUSH: Let's go to Pelosi. This was on Meet the Press yesterday. I want you to hear this, and we'll comment after it. Tom Brokaw said, "Senator Obama saying the question of when life begins is above his 'pay grade,' when whether you're looking at it 'scientifically or theologically,' if he were to come and say, 'Help me out here Madam Speaker,' what would you tell him?" PELOSI: As an ardent practicing Catholic, uh, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time. And what I know is over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition, and, uh, Senator -- uh, I'm -- Senator -- Uh, St. Augustin' (sic) said at three months. We don't know. The point is is that it shouldn't have an impact on a woman's right to choose. Roe v. Wade talks about very clear definitions of when the child -- uh, eh, er, first trimester, certain considerations second trimester, not so third trimester. The -- the -- there's very clear distinctions.
 RUSH: You know, folks, this is just embarrassing. As I've often wondered, is she genuinely this uneducated, uninformed, silly, stupid, whatever -- and I've concluded there isn't a word to describe the status of her brain. The Catholic Church doesn't know? The Catholic Church hasn't stipulated? The "doctors" at the Catholic Church? You mean the pope goes and consults the doctors to find out when life begins? Really? The doctors have more to say than God-d? I mean, Nancy, cite anybody. Don't cite the Catholic Church. You're putting them in an untenable position. You're fixing it so every priest, no matter how wacko left the priest might be, cannot support you. Good grief, ladies and gentlemen! Life begins at conception. Where else can it begin? Peggy Noonan had a great way -- I'm going to have to paraphrase what she wrote -- of reducing this to its most simple, its most elemental. If life doesn't begin at conception, then why the hell wear a condom? If life doesn't begin at conception, then why the hell take the pill? Well, the church doesn't allow the pill. I know the church doesn't allow the pill because life begins at conception -- and the church is not cool on condoms, either, logoed or otherwise. But that's the point. This is not something that we've been arguing about for centuries. St. Augustine said life begins at three months? St. Augustine knew that Roe v. Wade was going to come along and basically say the same thing? Ed Morrissey, writing at the Hot Air blog, has done yeoman's research into this. He writes today: "The notion that the Catholic Church declared abortion a sin at the same time as the Pill is patently absurd, and shows that Pelosi has either lied about studying the issue in terms of Church history or lied about what she found. Church writings specifically naming abortion as murder appear as early as 70 AD in the Didache, the first written catechism of the Christian church: ... 'Tertullian, sometimes known as the Father of the Latin Church, wrote with equal clarity and force: "In our case, a murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from the other parts of the body for its sustenance.'" This is AD 179, the year 179, following year 70. "The Catholic catechism is extremely clear on the nature of its position on human life, and has been remarkably consistent on this point for almost 2,000 years, and it finds that position in the Old Testament. Human life begins at conception, not at birth, and not at some point consistent with Roe for convenience.
"In Psalm 51, David refers to his sinfulness beginning at the moment of conception, and sinfulness requires physical life and a soul to exist." So there you have it in the Old Testament. The Catholic Church has not thrown the Old Testament under the bus, the last time I looked. This is a giant embarrassment, or ought to be. Where's Brokaw? Where is the media on this? She got away with this kind of inane, insane rambling, trying to fit one of the most sacred religious beliefs held by Catholics all over the world into a political issue that would conform with a rogue Supreme Court decision called Roe v. Wade in 1973. Now, that is hubris. That is arrogance like I cannot believe. She has placed herself above the doctors of the church, above "St. Augustin," as she said. She has placed herself above the pope and everything the Catholic Church has ever said about this. And of course Brokaw just sits there, "Heh, heh, heh. Oh. Good." Well, that's not entirely true. Brokaw did challenge her on this. I have to be honest. It's with the natural gas business that he just sat there. He said, "But wait a minute, the Catholic Church at the moment feels strongly that life begins at the point of conception." PELOSI: (mumbling) And this is, like, 50 years or something like that. So again, over the history, uh, of the church, this is an issue of, uh, controversy.
RUSH: No, it's not an issue of controversy in the church. It's an issue of controversy with the followers, with the parishioners, with the flock like you. Note the 50 years. I've always said, "A person's historical perspective begins with the day they were born." So her use of 50 years there, "Well, it's been a bone of contention, a controversy in the church for 50 years," meaning her adult life. That's what she is relating it all to. Th-th-th-- (sigh) I'm sorry to stutter, folks. I'm in stunned bewilderment and disbelief over what I consider to be not just stupidity and silliness but arrogance and hubris, and the ignorance that these people have over how this kind of comment is going to come back and bite her presidential nominee. I guess she thinks that she has to provide some sort of Democrat Party interpretation of Catholicism that permits Obama to get away with his infanticide belief.
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RUSH: Now, look, don't misunderstand me on this, folks. You've got a lot of liberal politicians who, for their own purposes, from Mario Cuomo to John Kerry to any number of them, will twist the Catholic Church's doctrine abortion to fit their own personal desires to attach firmly the Democrat political policy dogma and this sort of thing. The way Cuomo did it, he did it at Notre Dame University, he went to Notre Dame University, and he said, "Of course I understand the sanctity of life, I'm pro-life and so forth, but I cannot impose my political will, my religious views on people. I cannot impose my religious views on the rest of the country." Yet he was perfectly comfortable imposing his tax views on the rest of the country and every other view he had. But it was just a cop-out to allow him to remain pure to Democrat policy. But neither Cuomo nor Kerry nor any of the others has ever come along and spoken for the Catholic Church like Pelosi did yesterday on Meet the Depressed. That's the arrogance and hubris. I don't care whether she said the Catholic Church's doctors or doctrines, some people say she might have been saying "doctrines," doesn't matter. She was speaking for the Catholic Church, and that's brazen. This is going to come back to bite. The, quote, unquote, third most powerful woman in the United States of America telling the world what the Catholic Church's official position on life is, the church cannot let this stand. How they deal with it, we'll just have to wait and see.
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Pearl of Wisdom: "Nancy Pelosi says the 'doctors of the Catholic Church' haven't defined when life begins, and that this has only been a debate for the last fifty years -- meaning her lifetime. I'm in stunned bewilderment and disbelief over not just stupidity and silliness, but the arrogance and hubris."
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