Limbaugh Picks Up the Obama-Pastor Story About Racism

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RUSH: Wait 'til you hear Obama's pastor. Now, we've mentioned this guy off and on during the course of the campaign. Of course as you know, ladies and gentlemen, this program likes to focus not on personalities, but rather issues and so forth. We like to cause a little mischief whenever we can, but it's gotten to the point now where we can sort of back off for... Well, not for long, but for a couple weeks maybe and be bystanders and watch this implosion. Somebody put it up on YouTube, the Christmas 2007 sermon at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. The pastor: Jeremiah Wright. Now, this is the guy that married Barack and Michelle "My Belle" Obama. They've been going to this church for 20 years. They have been taking their two little crumb crunchers to this church. Now, that means this guy and this church and the kind of stuff that's said in this church, Barack Obama had been signing on to long before he came on the public scene -- long before he ran for local office in Chicago, state office in Illinois and then, of course, the United States Senate.

I mentioned a mere moment ago in a brilliant analysis: Obama is leading a double life. This pastor -- this church, the stuff that you are going to hear in mere moments -- is representative of the life that Barack Obama used to live before he arrived in the United States Senate and started his presidential campaign. He chose this pastor! This is not happenstance. He's also associated, as you know, with Tony Rezko, and William Aires, the domestic terrorist. By the way, all this is the side of his life that he doesn't want discussed. He wants to talk about "hope" and "change" and "the future." And this is the life Obama lived, who he was before he became interested in the presidency, and this pastor didn't just start talking about this. Let's go to the audio sound bites. We'll start with number one, this is again the 2007 Christmas sermon, Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright.

WRIGHT: Jesus was a poor black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture, that was controlled by rich white people! The Romans were rich. The Romans were Italians, which means they were European, which means they were white -- and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country. It just came to me within the past few weeks, y'all, why so many folk are hatin' on Barack Obama. He doesn't fit the model!

CONGREGATION: Right!

WRIGHT: He ain't white, he ain't rich, and he ain't privileged.

RUSH: This is the kind of stuff Obama has been listening to from this guy for 20 years. This guy didn't just start talking this way. Here's the next bite.

WRIGHT: Hillary never had to worry about being pulled over in her car as a black man driving in the wrong! I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it! Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home! Barack was. Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people! Hillary can never know that! Hillary ain't never been called a nigger! Hillary has never had her people defined as nonpersons! Hillary ain't had to work twice as hard just to get accepted by the rich white folk who run everything, or to get a passing grade when you know you are smarter than their C-students sitting in the White House. Hillary ain't never had her own people say she wasn't white enough!
RUSH: Um... Is this what is meant by a "new future"? Is this what is meant by "change"? Barack Obama, community activist. His preacher is a hatemonger, a black segregationist. He's got a friend from the Weather Underground who was on the run for terrorist acts. He befriended and benefited from the largesse of a Chicago thug. Is this what is meant by "change"? Is this where we are investing "hope" for the future? Is this really moving forward, at all? Or is this taking us backwards? The past is the past, and it's the past because it's behind us -- and to get behind you, you gotta turn around and go the other way, and that's the opposite of going forward in the future. Barack Obama tells us he wants to go forward, but we're turning around, and we're going backward. We're going back to the past. We're going to go back to the past! We're going to relive the past, apparently. This guy has been preaching to Barack Obama for 20 years, and his wife Michelle "My Belle" Obama and their children; and this guy certainly didn't just start talking like this.