RUSH LIMBAUGH: All right, we're gonna talk about Shirley Sherrod, and we're gonna talk about the NAACP, and Andrew Breitbart, and this video, but I want to tell you at the outset I hate it. I hate this story. I despise this story. I'm only talking about this because I must talk about it because I don't want to talk about it. It's a distraction. It's nothing more than the left playing the race card. The NAACP has thrown down the gauntlet because the big-government argument has failed. They are keeping alive the divisions in this country and I hate taking the bait. I hate playing along with it. I simply despise the whole thing. Everybody knows what's going on here. This is nothing more than a failed administration, a failed Democrat Party, a failed civil rights organization trying to stay alive with trumped up this and trumped-up that. This entire thing bores the heck out of me. The story bores me. The topic bores me. It angers me to no end. (interruption) Because I have to go after it, Snerdley, because even Fox caved on this, even poor old Shep Smith went down there and said that everybody's wrong on this, that Breitbart is wrong and so forth.
There are only a handful of us that have the guts to put this story straight. If we don't hammer back, nobody will. We got a bunch of cowards in the conservative media inside the Beltway which will not deal with this honestly. You got Andy McCarthy, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, got me, got Brent Bozell and that's about it, that are dealing with this up front and honest. And I hate the fact that these people put me in a bad mood. Now, this is not about Andrew Breitbart in the first place. And it's not about Shirley Sherrod. It's about the latest round in race-baiting. It's about the NAACP throwing down the gauntlet with direction and approval from Barack Obama and the White House. This is about the continuing smearing of great patriotic Americans which is all the left has left to do. There's no racism in the Tea Party. They don't have racist signs. They didn't shout the N-word at precious John Lewis on health care Sunday. There's no evidence that any of this happened. But the Ministry of Truth continues to promulgate the lie.
Millions of decent Americans who only want to preserve and save their country are being trashed and they're being smeared. The Ministry of Truth runs with it, they continue to smear, and therefore this has to be discussed. Now, I'm being told, being cautioned: "Remember, Rush, most people haven't heard about this." Haven't heard about what? You know, I got a note last night, "Rush you gotta talk about this. They're calling us racists." So what's new? What's new? We're all racists if you listen to the administration, if you listen to the Ministry of Truth, if you listen to the NAACP. We know where the real racism is in this country, it starts with Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the whole race movement, it's all based on the continued claim that there is racism and unfairness and that's where the Shirley Sherrod story really picks up here. I kind of resent that I have to spend any time on this whatsoever, but because everybody still cowers, most people still run for the tall grass, a racist charge is thrown at them and they head for the tall grass and they hide, "No, no, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not."
This woman, if you listen to the whole tape that the NAACP asked us all to listen to, she talks about Bush and later Obama being a black president. She's saying that all of us oppose health care because Obama's black. All of us who oppose government-run health care, which is millions of us, oppose it because of racism, because Obama's black. That's not why we oppose it. We don't oppose it for Obama's race. Most of us don't care about Obama's race. For the first three months of this guy's administration, "Don't you have any appreciation of the historical --" Yeah, I got past that in the first day. What matters to me is issues; what matter is the policies that this guy has and what they're gonna mean for the country. I'm not into surface. Surface stuff doesn't mean anything. I want to dig deep. I'm not into narratives. I'm not into templates. I don't carry around a whole lot of guilt and I don't let people offend me or make people inflict their own guilt on me.
So let's deal with this as we must for just a second. Audio sound bites. This is on the Today Show. This is Shirley Sherrod, the former US Department of Agriculture director of Georgia Rural Development. You know, another observation I had looking at this. Would you look at how damn big this government is? We've got rural directors here in every state, US Department of Agriculture -- how many millions of people working in the federal government are redundant and unnecessary and are simply there because the left wants a bigger and more expansive government and a shrinking private sector? I don't know what these people do. They don't know what they do. Anyway, now the template is: "Do you deserve a phone call from the president?" The White House wanted you fired. The White House didn't listen. The White House took it out of context. The White House is afraid of Fox News. For all I know, the White House orchestrated this whole thing. Here's her answer.
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There are only a handful of us that have the guts to put this story straight. If we don't hammer back, nobody will. We got a bunch of cowards in the conservative media inside the Beltway which will not deal with this honestly. You got Andy McCarthy, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, got me, got Brent Bozell and that's about it, that are dealing with this up front and honest. And I hate the fact that these people put me in a bad mood. Now, this is not about Andrew Breitbart in the first place. And it's not about Shirley Sherrod. It's about the latest round in race-baiting. It's about the NAACP throwing down the gauntlet with direction and approval from Barack Obama and the White House. This is about the continuing smearing of great patriotic Americans which is all the left has left to do. There's no racism in the Tea Party. They don't have racist signs. They didn't shout the N-word at precious John Lewis on health care Sunday. There's no evidence that any of this happened. But the Ministry of Truth continues to promulgate the lie. Millions of decent Americans who only want to preserve and save their country are being trashed and they're being smeared. The Ministry of Truth runs with it, they continue to smear, and therefore this has to be discussed. Now, I'm being told, being cautioned: "Remember, Rush, most people haven't heard about this." Haven't heard about what? You know, I got a note last night, "Rush you gotta talk about this. They're calling us racists." So what's new? What's new? We're all racists if you listen to the administration, if you listen to the Ministry of Truth, if you listen to the NAACP. We know where the real racism is in this country, it starts with Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the whole race movement, it's all based on the continued claim that there is racism and unfairness and that's where the Shirley Sherrod story really picks up here. I kind of resent that I have to spend any time on this whatsoever, but because everybody still cowers, most people still run for the tall grass, a racist charge is thrown at them and they head for the tall grass and they hide, "No, no, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not."
This woman, if you listen to the whole tape that the NAACP asked us all to listen to, she talks about Bush and later Obama being a black president. She's saying that all of us oppose health care because Obama's black. All of us who oppose government-run health care, which is millions of us, oppose it because of racism, because Obama's black. That's not why we oppose it. We don't oppose it for Obama's race. Most of us don't care about Obama's race. For the first three months of this guy's administration, "Don't you have any appreciation of the historical --" Yeah, I got past that in the first day. What matters to me is issues; what matter is the policies that this guy has and what they're gonna mean for the country. I'm not into surface. Surface stuff doesn't mean anything. I want to dig deep. I'm not into narratives. I'm not into templates. I don't carry around a whole lot of guilt and I don't let people offend me or make people inflict their own guilt on me.
So let's deal with this as we must for just a second. Audio sound bites. This is on the Today Show. This is Shirley Sherrod, the former US Department of Agriculture director of Georgia Rural Development. You know, another observation I had looking at this. Would you look at how damn big this government is? We've got rural directors here in every state, US Department of Agriculture -- how many millions of people working in the federal government are redundant and unnecessary and are simply there because the left wants a bigger and more expansive government and a shrinking private sector? I don't know what these people do. They don't know what they do. Anyway, now the template is: "Do you deserve a phone call from the president?" The White House wanted you fired. The White House didn't listen. The White House took it out of context. The White House is afraid of Fox News. For all I know, the White House orchestrated this whole thing. Here's her answer.
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