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Why So Many Americans Still Don’t Know Much of Anything About Barack Obama

Saturday, May 19, 2012 11:23

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“A REPUBLIC, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT.” ~BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

By Rush Limbaugh | May 18, 2012 | RushLimbaugh.com

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RUSH: You know, this Reverend Wright stuff with Barack Obama, it’s back in the news again. Something is happening. It’s anecdotal, but I happen to think that this might be applicable in a statistical way to the nation at large. We played the audio sound bite from Obama reading from one of his books a couple of weeks ago, in which he admitted bullying a young girl, in which he admitted trying cocaine, admitted that he drank a lot, basically just lollygagged around. I know we’ve got new listeners to this program. It’s been documented by the official ratings companies that monitor such things.

There are tons and tons of new listeners, but even at that, I’m overwhelmed by the number of people — we’re three-and-a-half years into his regime, and I’m getting e-mails from people that the first time they’d heard he’d done cocaine was in the past two, three weeks. The first time they’d heard that he had bullied a young girl. They didn’t know his college transcripts hadn’t been released. They just assumed all that had happened and they missed it. They didn’t know any of this.

Now, we know Obama wasn’t vetted. We know the mainstream media has done everything they can to protect him. But the Reverend Wright stuff was out there. I’m even getting e-mail from people who had not heard all the Reverend Wright stuff. New listeners, not people who listen to this program regularly. New listeners say they’re hearing this for the first time. I’m getting e-mails from people like we got when we were in the first year or first two years of the program. “My gosh, I found you the other day driving around. I couldn’t get anything else on the radio, and I’m hooked now.” Similar comments from customers at Two If By Tea who are finding the program for the first time and learning stuff about Obama that we’ve all known for four years. They’re just now hearing about it.

It’s driving home the fact that the Drive-Bys didn’t vet this guy at all. We know it, but I’m sitting here, I assume everybody knows that Obama did cocaine, and this is the mistake we make. We know it, so we assume everybody else knows it because of word-of-mouth and this kind of thing. Some of the Reverend Wright stuff surfaced again because there’s some new aspects to the Reverend Wright case. For example, in Ed Klein’s book, The Amateur – and Klein’s got this on tape — a friend of Obama’s offered Wright 150 grand, a bribe, to stop preaching during the 2008 campaign. Yeah, it was just 150. That’s probably why Wright didn’t take it.

But there was another story in the Ed Klein book that Obama was talking to Wright one day, Reverend Wright, and said, “You know, Reverend, your problem is you have to tell the truth. As a politician, I don’t. I don’t have to tell the truth. I can make the truth whatever I want it to be.” It’s not on tape, but Klein claims that Obama said that to Wright. So there’s all kinds of new stuff that’s surfacing about Reverend Wright, in addition to the old stuff being recycled that people are hearing for the first time. It literally is amazing. The Wright stuff was all over talk radio. It was all over Fox News. But in one way this is encouraging because it is a great indication of just how many additional people are finding their way to conservative media now.

So I thought, okay, maybe we’ll go back in time. I want to play the Charlie Rose, Tom Brokaw bit here again. The reason is that it is, by itself, amazingly explanatory. By itself, it explains the Drive-By Media in all kinds of ways. Now, I don’t think it’s gonna humiliate the media. In fact, I don’t think humiliating the media will change anything. I think they’re beyond being humiliated. I think they’re insulted from that. But the Charlie Rose, Tom Brokaw clip that we’ve been playing off and on for three-and-a-half years now, here you have two liberal Democrat icons who didn’t know, who don’t care to know the first darn thing about Barack Obama, a community organizer who had a ton of secrets, and still does. His grade transcripts, his relationship with Bill Ayers, and it’s happening all over again. We’re not supposed to talk about Reverend Wright, but we can go back and the Washington Post can do a 50-year-old story about Mitt Romney at a prestigious prep school.

Romney’s not gonna go there, and I predicted this. I predicted that whoever the Republican nominee is, they would not go after Obama the way they’re going after each other. I predicted it back in January. I’ll have that audio sound bite coming up for you. But his college transcripts, the relationship he had with Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Rashid Khalidi, Frank Marshall Davis, his ties to ACORN, what his role was in the Million Man March, scholarships, loans, how did he become such a fantastic writer, having written nothing before Dreams From My Father. And the stuff that he had written was no great shakes. Where did he learn to write? They don’t care what goes on in the White House, the media, they don’t care what goes in the White House when it’s Obama’s. They don’t care what goes on in the attorney general’s office. They don’t care what’s going on in the Energy Department, the Labor Department, they don’t care, and they don’t want people to know what a rat’s nest every quarter of this regime is.

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