RUSH: So there’s Obama being praised to the heavens, Obama being exalted and held up as only Obama can be, The Messiah, the one, being praised for this wonderful healing speech last night by the same people who are exhibiting and announcing and proclaiming a vicious hate against Sarah Palin,
There wasn’t one level of outburst. There wasn’t one instance of anybody disagreeing or saying that Glenn Reynolds was anti-Semitic or how reprehensible the use of that term, he doesn’t understand what he’s talking about, what an idiot. Palin uses it in her eight minute Facebook video and all hell breaks loose. So the very people that the president is asking to tone it down here, although not by name, just cannot stop. The unbridled hatred for Sarah Palin goes on, unchecked, uncommented upon.
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RUSH: Here’s an affirmation, folks, of my point earlier. Dan Balz in the Washington Post. ‘As Obama Urged Unity, Palin Brought Division.’ Now, if anybody has read the transcript or watched Sarah Palin’s video speech, there’s no ‘division’ whatsoever. It’s an attempt to do the same thing Obama was attempting — unity, perspective, honesty — and yet there the Drive-Bys out there: ‘As Obama Urged Unity, Palin Brought Division.’ They just can’t help it.
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RUSH: According to ABC News, the death threats against Sarah Palin have reached an unprecedented level. I have the story in the stack. In San Francisco today I guess we can say the president’s words are being ignored because there are insulting posters of Sarah Palin on a street which encourage violence against her. The president’s admonition for us to be nicer to each other is not working. And ABC News: ‘Death Threats Against Palin Have Reached ‘Unprecedented Level.” Should Obama have specifically mentioned how wrong that is? Should he? I mean this is not some vague academic hypothesis. This is actually happening and Obama is ignoring it. Now, Obama has no problem warning against the backlash against Muslim terrorists, and during the Fort Hood scenario, after it was discovered that Major Hasan had been getting inspiration from a militant Islamist, a guy named al-Awlaki, not only Obama, but some high-ranking general said, ‘My main priority is to make sure there’s not a backlash against Muslims in the US Army.’ Okay. All right, cool. If that’s your gig, fine.
The president talks about challenging old assumptions. That’s something he argues for when it comes to his agenda. Challenge old assumptions. That means the way this country’s been in the past, no more. Barack Obama. I put the ‘me’ in memorial. It starts out you spell memorial m-e. I, Barack Obama, I put the ‘me’ in memorial. Now, nobody’s gonna remember any particular phrase or sentence from this speech. And I think some of the praise for this speech is forced. I actually do. Particularly among some of the conservatives who are doing cartwheels over this. There are things going on beneath the surface, people want to position themselves or to be viewed a certain way or whatever. But that whole night last night was surreal to me in a whole lot of ways with much of it spent with my mouth in various stages, phases of open, in disbelief.
Now, as you know, people from the beginning of time have tried to figure out why liberals are liberals. I, on this program, have announced various theories and reasons. Everybody has. It’s Mars-Venus. I mean seriously, the left is mad that Sarah Palin is inserting herself into this. Now, Sarah Palin, I don’t know, maybe killing and dressing a moose on Saturday afternoon, incident happens, 30 minutes later she’s responsible for it. So three days later she does a video on Facebook, and they accuse her of inserting herself and trying to take over the story, to put herself in front of it. They dragged her into it. And Dan Balz: ‘As Obama Urged Unity, Palin Brought Division.’ Division? So here’s more of the Drive-By Media pointing a finger of blame and suspicion at Palin.