RUSH LIMBAUGH IS ALSO FRUSTRATED WITH MICHELLE OBAMA'S
REFERENCES TO SLAVERY IN HER SPEECH AT THE DNC, ALTHOUGH HE
HAS A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT ANGLE.
>> NO MATTER -- NO MATTER WHEN WHAT THE OCCASION, THEY CAN'T
STOP TALKING ABOUT SLAVERY.
AND LARGELY IN A CONTEXT OF, HEY,
YOU KNOW WHAT?
IT ISN'T SETTLED IN.
WE HAVEN'T FIXED IT YET.
THAT IS THEIR STARTING POINT.
AND I THINK THAT'S A NO WIN
SITUATION FOR US, BECAUSE WE HAVE MADE GREAT STRIDES, THIS
COUNTRY HAS MADE PHENOMENAL STRIDES SINCE THEN.
IMAGINE THAT
YOUR WIFE HAS AN AFFAIR, BUT YOU AND YOUR WIFE GET TOGETHER AND
YOU DECIDE THAT YOU ARE GOING TO FORGIVE HER, LOOK PAST IT FOR
THE SAKE OF THE MARRIAGE, YOUR KIDS, AND YOU MOVE FORWARD.
OKAY.
NOW IMAGINE, EVERY ARGUMENT YOU HAVE YOU CONTINUE
TO REMIND HER THAT SHE IS TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING BECAUSE SHE
IS THE ONE WHO HAD THE AFFAIR.
YOUR RELATIONSHIP DOESN'T HAVE A
PRAYER IF YOU CAN'T LET IT GO.
IF ALL YOU CAN DO IS CONTINUE TO
REMIND HER WHAT YOU'VE ALREADY FORGIVEN HER FOR, THEN THE DAYS
OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP ARE OVER.
AND THE GRIEVANCE INDUSTRY, THEY
DON'T WANT SOLUTIONS, THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO JUST THAT NO
MATTER WHAT PROGRESS, NO MATTER WHAT, NO MATTER WHAT, THEY DON'T
WANT TO IGNORE KNOWLEDGE THAT ANYTHING HAS BEEN DONE.
AND
THAT'S HOW I HEAR THE OBAMAS.
>>CAN I JUST SAY -- THAT IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT MICHELLE
OBAMA SAID.
MICHELLE OBAMA SAID WE MADE GREAT STRIDES.
WE WENT
FROM HAVING NOTHING, AND HAVING TO BUILD THIS WHITE HOUSE, TO
LIVING IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND TWO BEAUTIFUL BLACK DAUGHTERS
PLAYING IN THE YARD, WHAT A WONDERFUL COUNTRY, WHAT GREAT
PROGRESS.
AND SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT IT IN THE CONTEXT OF, WE
DON'T HAVE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, IT IS ALREADY GREAT.
HOW
MUCH MORE COULD SHE CELEBRATE THE COUNTRY?
BUT THE VERY
MENTION OF THE WORD SLAVERY TRIGGERS, FOR RUSH LIMBAUGH AND
BILL O'REILLY, THERE THEY GO AGAIN.
SHE DIDN'T SAY ANY OF
THAT.
THAT IS JUST YOUR GUILT THAT YOU ARE PROJECTING OUT.
RUSH, YOU DIDN'T DO THE SLAVERY.
YOU KNOW I'M SAYING?
>>SO FAR AS WE KNOW.
>>I DON'T HEAR SOMEONE TALKING ABOUT SLAVERY AND GO, WHAT DO
YOU MEAN?
ARE YOU ACCUSING ME OF SOMETHING?
DIDN'T DO IT, NOBODY
NOW DID IT, DON'T PRETEND LIKE YOU ARE GUILTY ABOUT IT,
OBVIOUSLY THERE IS SOMETHING INSIDE OF YOU WHERE YOU THINK,
I'M INVOLVED IN PERPETUATING RACISM SO I -- YOU TAKE IT
PERSONALLY.
WE DIDN'T SAY IT, YOU DID IT.
IT'S SO OBVIOUS.
IF
YOU WANT TO BRING UP THE SLAVERY STILL HAVE AN EFFECT, THAT IS
NOT WHAT MICHELLE OBAMA BROUGHT UP, YOU BROUGHT IT UP.
BUT I
COULD ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
ANY RATIONAL PERSON KNOWS THERE ARE
SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS THAT ARISE BECAUSE OF THE HISTORY OF
ANY COUNTRY AND ANY ETHNICITY WITHIN THE COUNTRY.
I CAN GIVE
YOU DOZENS OF EXAMPLES IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
BUT IN THIS
CASE RIGHT NOW THE AVERAGE WHITE HOUSEHOLD HAS ABOUT $150,000 IN
WEALTH, A LOT OF THAT IS IN THEIR HOUSE.
YOU KNOW THE
AVERAGE AFRICAN-AMERICAN HOUSEHOLD HAS IN WEALTH?
ON
AVERAGE ABOUT 11,000.
SO WHEN YOU ARE BORN INTO AN AFRICAN
AMERICAN HOUSEHOLD YOU WERE BORN INTO A SITUATION WHERE YOU ARE
AT AN ENORMOUS DISADVANTAGE.
I KNOW WHAT SOME CONSERVATIVES
THINK, OF COURSE, THEY ARE LAZY.
YOU SCHMUCKS, ANYONE WHO HAS
STUDIED THIS KNOWS THAT OF COURSE IF THIS GROUP HAD NO
WEALTH TO BEGIN WITH, LITERALLY BECAUSE THEY WERE SLAVES, AND
WERE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST FOR 100 YEARS, WHICH YOU WILL AGREE,
JIM CROW, SEPARATE WATER FOUNTAINS, YOU CAN'T HAVE THESE
JOBS, THEY CLEARLY WERE, AND YOU BEGIN TO FIX THAT IN THE 1960S,
AND THEN WE'VE HAD 50 YEARS OF PROGRESS BUT I'M USUALLY NOT
ENOUGH, NOW YOU GET TO A POINT WHERE, YES, SOME
AFRICAN-AMERICANS HAVE WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY, WHICH WE ALL
CELEBRATE.
BUT OBVIOUSLY AS A WHOLE IS NOT MADE AS MUCH
PROGRESS IN GETTING TO A POINT WHERE THEY HAVE AS MUCH
OPPORTUNITY AS THE AVERAGE WHITE PERSON.
THAT'S OKAY, WE WILL GET
THERE TOGETHER, BUT WHEN YOU SCREAM LIKE, WHAT ARE THEY
COMPLAINING ABOUT, THAT I GUESS WE HAVE TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU
BECAUSE YOU ARE DEVOID OF THESE FACTS OR ANY RATIONAL
UNDERSTANDING OF HOW HISTORY WORKS, AND THE SITUATION WE'RE
IN TODAY.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO FEEL GUILTY ABOUT THAT, YOU COULD
JOIN US TO MAKE THAT BETTER.
BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO,
YOU WANT TO SAY IT'S NO BIG DEAL, IGNORE IT, IT IS NOT A
REAL PROBLEM, LET'S MOVE ON.
>> AND HE LUMPS MICHELLE OBAMA INTO THESE PEOPLE IN THE
GRIEVANCE BUSINESS -- THERE WAS NO GRIEVING ON MICHELLE OBAMA'S
PART OF THE OTHER NIGHT.
SHE WAS POSTING NO GRIEVANCES.
>>SHE WAS CELEBRATING.
>>EXACTLY, SHE WAS CELEBRATING.
SO TO PUT HER IN THE GRIEVANCE BUSINESS, JUST A TERRIBLE,
UNFAIR, AND UGLY THING.
CONTINUED UGLINESS.
>>RUSH LIMBAUGH LOVES TO PORTRAY HIMSELF AS THIS TOUGH GUY BUT HE
IS A FRAGILE MAN, AND I LOVED THAT YOU USED THE WORD
TRIGGERED, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED.
THESE NUT JOBS THAT
WHINE ABOUT TRIGGER WARNINGS, THEY GET TRIGGERED.
WHEN A
SIMPLE MENTION OF SLAVERY TRIGGERS YOU TO THE POINT YOU
GET DEFENSIVE, YOU ARE A FRAGILE MAN, AND HE IS FEELING GUILTY
AND THIS IS HIS WAY OF GETTING DEFENSIVE WHEN OBVIOUSLY
HER MESSAGE WAS SO POSITIVE.
TALKING ABOUT THE PROGRESS THE COUNTRY HAS MADE.
>>IRONICALLY, HE IS IN THE GRIEVANCE BUSINESS.
THAT IS WHAT
HE DOES EVERY DAY ON THE SHOW.
OH MY GOD, BOO HOO, US
PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS, PERSECUTED WHITE PEOPLE,
PERSECUTED REPUBLICANS.
THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS.
>>THIS WHOLE THING WAS A GRIEVANCE.
>>IT PROBABLY LAST ABOUT THREE HOURS, TOO.
I THINK WE CAN
EXPLAIN HIS REACTION TO THAT AND ALSO THE CONSTANT CONSERVATIVE
REACTION TO THE APOLOGY TOURS THAT OBAMA OR OTHER DEMOCRATS GO
ON.
IT REMINDS ME OF A BOOK I READ THAT I THINK WAS WRITTEN BY
AL FRANKEN, BEFORE HE BECAME A SENATOR, THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE
WHO FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT THE COUNTRY SEE IT AS A PARENT PART
OF THE FAMILY.
YOU CAN LOVE YOUR PARENT IN A DIFFERENT WAY, AND A
LOT OF PEOPLE LOVE THEIR COUNTRY LIKE ADULTS, BE ABLE TO
UNDERSTAND THE FLAWS AND BEING ABLE TO TALK ABOUT THAT.
BUT
SOME PEOPLE LOVE THEIR COUNTRY LIKE A FOUR-YEAR-OLD LOVES THEIR
MOM, WHERE THEY ARE GREAT AND THE BEST AND HOW DO YOU SAY
ANYTHING, HOW DO YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT MAYBE SHE IS AN ALCOHOLIC?
NORTH FOUR-YEAR-OLD IS LIKE, YES SHE'S A GOOD PERSON BUT SHE
DRINKS TOO MUCH.
SO IF YOU DOLLARS THAT THE COUNTRY WAS
WRONG TO GO TO A CERTAIN WAR OR SOMETHING, THAT IS AN APOLOGY
TOUR AND THEY THINK IT WEAKENS THE COUNTRY INSTEAD OF
STRENGTHENING IT BY ALLOWING US TO LEARN FROM MISTAKES.
>>YOU HAVE RUSH LIMBAUGH FREAKING OUT OVER THE WORD
SLAVERY BECAUSE HE TAKES IT AS A CRITICISM OF AMERICA, BUT AT THE
SAME TIME YOU HAVE A CANDIDATE ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE WHOSE
MOTTO THROUGHOUT THIS ELECTION IS, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
AMERICA SUCKS AND I'M GOING TO MAKE IT GREAT AGAIN.
SO WHEN YOU
GET THE CRITICISM FROM A WHITE MALE WHO IS ALLEGEDLY SIMILAR TO
YOU IDEOLOGICALLY, THEN THE CRITICISM IS WARRANTED.
BUT WHEN
IT COMES TO A BLACK WOMAN, OUR FIRST LADY, ACTUALLY SAYING
SOMETHING POSITIVE ABOUT THE COUNTRY AND HOW FAR WE'VE COME,
WE CAN'T HAVE IT BECAUSE YOU MENTIONED ONE NEGATIVE WORD.
>>BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND WHAT HE MEANS BY MAKE AMERICA GREAT
AGAIN.
THE WHITE CORE OF AMERICA IT IS GREAT AS IT HAS ALWAYS
BEEN, BUT IT HAS BEEN SULLIED BY BAD ELEMENTS FROM THE SOUTH
AND EAST.
>>WHAT ANN COULTER CALLS THE BROWNING OF AMERICA.