ANALYSIS: Jimmy Carter's comment about Obama's critics and the race issue

Hello Everyone:

Here is the controversial comment that Jimmy Carter made about Obama's critics and the race issue:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/16/ltm.01.html

AMERICAN MORNING

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Aired September 16, 2009 - 06:00 ET

JIMMY CARTER, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: "An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity towards President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American.

I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way. And I've seen the rest of the country share the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African-Americans. That racism in connection still exists, and I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the South but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country..."

Here is the YouTube video link to watch Jimmy Carter saying this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b5xoUHCBsk&feature=player_embedded

2009 Sept 15 Brian Williams - President Jimmy Carter "Racism" (1:58)

CodyOmniscient
September 15, 2009

"In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, former Democratic President Jimmy Carter attributed much of the conservative opposition that President Obama is receiving to the issue of race..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b5xoUHCBsk&feature=player_embedded

My opinion is that Jimmy Carter exercised very poor judgment by his publicly making that comment. Here are my four specific reasons explaining why I believe this:

1) Whether Jimmy Carter is right or wrong, there is no tangible way to prove that someone is a racist if they deny it.

Nia-Malika Henderson, a White House reporter with "Politico," understood this point when she said about allegations of racism that "they're very difficult to prove" on CNN:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/16/ltm.01.html

AMERICAN MORNING

Aired September 16, 2009 - 06:00 ET

KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR: "You know, Alan Wilson, who is Congressman Joe Wilson's son, weighed in on that and he basically called any allegations of racism regarding his father ludicrous. He went on to say, "There's not a racist bone in my dad's body. It's unfortunate people made that jump. People can disagree -- appropriately disagree on issues of substance, but when they make the jump to race, it's absolutely ludicrous."

So, he's basically saying that in no way, shape or form is his dad a racist. And the fact that he screamed "you lie" had nothing to do with race.

What do you think about Alan Wilson's comments?

NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, COVERED OBAMA'S 2008 PRES. CAMPAIGN: "I mean, I think it goes to the fact that, I mean, when you make allegations of racism and they're very difficult to prove -- racism or claims that people have kind of racialized thinking. I mean, it's a very nebulous idea. Even though the idea of race is very pervasive, racism is certainly pervasive as well. It's very difficult to prove.

So that's why, for instance, you haven't seen a lot of people say this publicly. And even the -- it's an issue that's coming up for the White House and they pushed back on it. They essentially say that people are under a lot of stress, the economy is really shaken now, and that it isn't necessarily race-based, it's just part of politics as usual..."

There is no way how Jimmy Carter can tangibly prove his claim if a person denies being a racist and nobody can be convicted on just circumstantial evidence such as holding up a hateful Obama sign.

2) What Jimmy Carter said was a major distraction from the issues that Obama really wants to talk about.

I completely agree with what John Legend and David Gergen said on CNN about this point:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/16/acd.02.html

ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES

Former President Carter Stands By His Comment on Race; Bones Found on Garrido Property; Yale Grad Student Strangled to Death; Yale Cold Case; Medical Malpractice Battle

Aired September 16, 2009 - 23:00 ET

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST: "John Legend, when you heard the president's (Carter's) comments, what did you think?

JOHN LEGEND, GRAMMY-AWARD WINNING SINGER: Well, I definitely felt there was some truth to what he said. But I also was worried because I knew what would happen the next day, which is what is happening right now, which is the subject, ended up being all about race, which is inflammatory by its nature. Because people get defensive, people get emotional, people get tribal about it.

And now all we're talking about is race when we should be talking about what's was happening. All across America people are without health care, the economy is still suffering. We have 10 percent unemployment. These are the things we should be really concerned about.

But what we're talking about today is another day of talking about racism and being inflammatory. And really the only people that are celebrating are the opponents of the president's agenda, because the opponents of the president's agenda want this to be a race war, because blacks lose a race war because we're only 12 percent of the country. They want this to be a race war.

I don't want a race war. President Obama doesn't want a race war...

COOPER: We "Dig Deeper" now. With us again: singer John Legend, senior political analyst David Gergen and conservative activist Nic Lott and political analyst Roland Martin.

David, to John Legend's point: he's saying look, this is really a distraction keeping us off the important issues of health care and other things that should be debated. Rather now we're kind of off to the third rail of American politics to the subject of race. This is certainly not something that the White House wants to be discussing.

DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: It's certainly not and the White House would very much like to change the subject..."

3) Jimmy Carter put Obama in a very awkward position where Obama had to distance himself from Carter:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/20/sotu.01.html

STATE OF THE UNION WITH JOHN KING

Interview With Barack Obama; Interview with Senator McConnell

Aired September 20, 2009 - 09:00 ET

JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR: "It's a tough business, as you know. But in recent weeks, people have raised some pretty serious questions, the big rally in town, signs talking about Afro-socialism (ph), swastikas with your name and your picture on them, "you lie" shouted at you during a nationally televised addressed, and former President Carter says he sees racism in some of this. Do you?

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: You know, as I've said in the past, you know, are there people out there who don't like me because of race? I'm sure there are. That's not the overriding issue here. I think there are people who are anti-government.

I think that there are -- there has been a longstanding debate in this country that is usually that much more fierce during times of transition or when presidents are trying to bring about big changes.

I mean, the things that were said about FDR are pretty similar to the things that were said about me, that he was a communist, he was a socialist. Things that were said about Ronald Reagan when he was trying to reverse some of the New Deal programs, you know, were -- were pretty vicious, as well.

The only thing I'd just hope is, is that people -- you know, I think we can have a strong disagreement, passionate disagreements about issues without -- without resorting to name-calling. We can maintain civility. We can give other people the benefit of the doubt that -- that they want what is best for this country..."

4) Jimmy Carter gave Obama's enemies a lot of unnecessary "political ammunition" to use against him, to demonize Democrats, and to take attention away from the issues that Obama wants to talk about.

Here is the FOX News 'Hannity' video where extreme right wing ideologues Sean Hannity and Mark Levin took full advantage of Carter's comment:

http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=011008&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=9665470&referralPlaylistId=playlist (06:45)

September 16, 2009

Playing Carter's Race Card

Democrats take former president's lead on accusations of racism. Sean Hannity and Mark Levin discuss this issue.

http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=011008&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=9665470&referralPlaylistId=playlist (06:45)

Right below is how Rush Limbaugh took full advantage of Carter's comment and used it as a distraction!

I am not surprised that an incident about race like this happened because the race issue was definitely one major reason why Obama won the Democratic primary which even Obama's very strong African-American supporter Roland Martin openly admitted to on CNN right after the 2008 election was over:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0811/05/ec.07.html

CNN ELECTION CENTER

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Aired November 5, 2008 - 20:00 ET

CAMPBELL BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: "And it was about the diversity of this country in terms of the coalition that was formed here. How much did race play a role in all of this? Gosh knows we talked about it a lot going into it, Roland, whether or not it was going to play a role. How much did it?

(CROSSTALK)

ROLAND MARTIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Well, of course race played a role, because, first of all, let's start from the beginning, all right?

African-Americans largely behind Hillary Clinton. They said, look, we don't think the guy actually has a shot at winning. You go to Iowa, 95 percent white. They vote for Barack Obama. All of a sudden, literally overnight, African-Americans say, wow, whites folks may actually vote for the black guy.

All of a sudden, that changes. He runs a race where he does not -- where he -- where race is not front and center, but it is still the unspoken word there. He rides black support in the critical primaries and then picks up critical support in other areas as well.

And then, of course, he begins to develop that message, then broadens it from there. But they also targeted Latino votes in those critical states, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado. You saw how they were able to use that. They put together a very -- a 21st century coalition..."

While I am glad that Roland Martin admitted it, I knew all along that the race issue was one major reason why Obama won the 2008 Democratic nomination:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14894

CNN documented superdelegates are facing racial pressure & threats to back Obama

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Because the race issue was one major factor that helped to get Obama elected, I am not surprised that it is coming up in his Presidency. I really hope that the race issue will go away because it is NOT a fair way how to judge Obama and I think it is a distraction from many serious issues that affect people's lives!

In conclusion, I agree with what Lanny Davis said about Jimmy Carter's comment on CNN last night:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/20/cnr.05.html

CNN NEWSROOM

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Aired September 20, 2009 - 22:00 ET

LANNY DAVIS, THE CIVILITY PROJECT: "I also want to say that I'm very disappointed with a Georgian named Jimmy Carter who, since he left the presidency, has been a great example of doing good works, even though his virulent anti-Israel attitude has marred those good works.

But for him to weigh in and attribute motives to some of these folks who are genuinely angry about the economy and other issues, Jimmy Carter needs to apologize and Barack Obama has criticized a former president. I think Jimmy Carter really shamefully contributed to what we would call in-civil dialogue here.

DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: I have to say that that's probably going to make news right there, Lanny, that you did say that.

DAVIS: I'm a great fan of Jimmy Carter's; I have been for a long time. Aside from his anti-Israel behavior, I'm been a great fan of what he's done so much good around the world. And for him to inflame what should have been a civil debate by injecting race, and Barack Obama really smacking him down for it, which I found to be amazing, is something Jimmy Carter needs to think about..."

I was really glad to hear this coming from a well known Democrat who is respected by many Democrats!

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All of the nonsense below is unnecessary "political ammunition" that Jimmy Carter gave to Obama's political enemies like Rush Limbaugh. Obama's political enemies are taking full advantage of Jimmy Carter's comment and they are using it as a distraction from real issues that matter in people's lives:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_091609/content/01125106.guest.html

The National Hemorrhoid Pops Up, Claims Criticism of Obama is Racist

September 16, 2009

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: They've trotted out Jimmy Carter, ladies and gentlemen. They've trotted out Jimmy Carter. This means that it's over. I mean who is more closely associated with economic malaise and failure than Jimmy Carter? So they bring out Jimmy Carter to co-conspire with Barack Obama, they bring out Jimmy Carter who now says everything here is about race. I tell you, this is disgusting, of all people to bring out. It's an axiom. They bring Jimmy Carter out at the last moment to try to save the day. We have the worst president in American history coming back to defend the man who will be an even worse president when it's all said and done. Now that economic misery is once again engulfing America, Jimmy Carter back in the news with the same kind of ignorance and stupidity that marred and marked his own presidency.

Carter and Obama deserve each other, folks. Carter and Obama deserve each other. Misery loves company. Misery indexes love company and it's about time we come up with a misery index for the Obama administration, because it is it is running the same route as Jimmy Carter. The only difference between the two is that Jimmy Carter was doing everything he could to reform the system, to reform America within it. Obama's going outside. So what we have here is two failed presidencies and failed presidents in the spotlight. The Democrat Party has put a perfect match in political and economic hell for the American people to see. There is no way Jimmy Carter has the respect of a majority of the American people. No way possible. Obama, the latest health care numbers, 55% now disapprove of his health care plan. Yeah, opposition to health care reform reaches a new high at 55%. This is the latest Rasmussen Report, the daily tracking poll now shows that just 42% support the plan, matching the low first reached in August.

Now, about Jimmy Carter coming out and piling on with this racism stuff, and there's some outrageous examples of it from the State-Controlled Media. There's even a guy that was on MSNBC, I'm not going to play the sound bite for you. I am not going to dignify this by playing it, but it was this morning on MSNBC. This guy, Michael Eric Dyson claims that I have written that slavery was a good thing. Even Scarborough said, "What are you talking about?" "Oh, yeah, you can read it, you can read it." I have never said slavery was a good thing! These people are just over the edge now, and I'm going to tell you something, folks. I thought the election of Barack Obama was all about seeing to it that these days never happened again. I'm being serious here. I thought the election of Barack Obama -- and I'm not being cliched here, I'm just telling you what we were told. Now, I predicted exactly what's happening so I'm not surprised by it. But we were all told that we're going to have a post-racial America, we're going to have a post-partisan America, none of this was going to happen.

I warned everybody, folks, it's only going to get worse. I predicted every aspect of this, and I said it's going to center around criticism of Obama. Any criticism of him is going to be said to be racist. Once again I am right on the money, bull's-eye. But here's what I think about this. The president of the United States is sitting here and promoting this division. He is encouraging it. He has people in the White House, "Ah, we don't think it's so much race and so forth." But he could put a stop to this and should. If Barack Obama wants to be the president that he told everybody was going to be during the campaign, he needs to schedule a speech -- not five appearances on Sunday shows and Letterman -- he needs to schedule a speech to say, "Stop this stuff. This is not productive. This is not helping America. This is dividing America." He needs to say, "I know that there's criticism of me, and I know there's opposition to me. There has been criticism of every president. There's been opposition to every president." But I guess all of a sudden now we're not allowed to do that anymore. We can't criticize Obama. We can't do that because it's all racist.

But he needs to stand up and make a speech and he needs to say, "We are going to heal these racial divisions." If he were the real deal, folks, he would do this speech telling the American people and the media and everybody to knock this racial stuff off, that he can handle the criticism. He was supposed to be the end of all this. And instead what we have now is his party pushing the notion that all the opposition to Obama is rooted in racism. I mean how far have we come, how Orwellian the establishment has become, any criticism of Obama's political agenda is pronounced blatant racism. But a school bus full of black kids beating up a solitary white kid couldn't possibly be racism. How Orwellian has all this gotten? Then we add Jimmy Carter, the anti-Semite to the mix, and I've also got some transcripts of Jimmy Carter running campaign commercials in 1970 running for governor of Georgia.

He is such a disingenuous old doddering incompetent boob. I have mixed emotions. I wish he'd go away but then I'm glad he's there because he's doing nothing helpful to the Democrat Party.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b5xoUHCBsk&feature=player_embedded

2009 Sept 15 Brian Williams - President Jimmy Carter "Racism" (1:58)

CodyOmniscient
September 15, 2009

"In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, former Democratic President Jimmy Carter attributed much of the conservative opposition that President Obama is receiving to the issue of race..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b5xoUHCBsk&feature=player_embedded

RUSH: When I think Jimmy Carter, I think of mediocrity -- and when I think of what that mediocrity did to this nation through his ineptitude and his utterly manic incompetence driven by a juvenile paranoia, driven by anti-Semitism.

His betrayal and conniving against our own country's interests in pursuing a Nobel Peace Prize is the hallmark of Jimmy Carter's post-presidency -- and for him to inject himself in this Wilson matter is beyond the pale. And to fan the racist flame is, to me, a mortal sin. And the president of the United States needs to get out there and stop it. He's the only one who can. He was elected on the premise that he was going to stop it. What about the racism against Clarence Thomas? What about the racism against any black who was a conservative and dares to seek high office? How about Pelosi calling half the American people Nazis? Is that still on the okay list? So I don't care, folks. I don't care. I don't care if Obama's from Mars. I don't care where he's born. I don't care about any of that. I care about what his intentions are toward this country -- and I'm not going to be silenced by any of these baseless accusations, 'cause now it's getting to be a joke if it weren't so serious.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Yesterday, to show you how utterly hilarious and ridiculous this is -- and you might even say there is... I don't want to offend people here, but we have a cliche, "Well, there is a God." Look what happened yesterday. Yesterday, Osama Bin Laden... By the way, whatever happened to our measure of success in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan by capturing Osama? Whatever happened to that? Remember all through the Bush presidency, "Well, Bush hasn't done anything. We haven't won anything. Osama is out there. We haven't captured Osama."

Are we trying to capture Osama bin Laden now? We're defining victory differently so much so that Obama said he doesn't like the term "victory" when it comes to Afghanistan. "Ah, victory, I think of poor old Japanese Hirohito (sic) walking out there and accepting the terms of surrender on the USS Missouri. Ah, I don't like the concept of victory." What is this man doing to the country with no scrutiny? So yesterday Osama Bin Laden moved in on Oprah country. Osama Bin Laden came out with book recommendations! Did you hear about this? He came out with book recommendations. Apparently Osama Bin Laden, the big guy, does read even by candlelight in the cave. And on his must-read list of three books, one of the three books is Jimmy Carter's. One of the three books that Osama Bin Laden recommends Americans read and people around the world read is written by former president James Earl Carter, the peanut farmer, the carpenter, the foreign policy hemorrhoid.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416562850?ie=UTF8&tag=theoffiwebs0d-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1416562850

Jimmy Carter is the nation's hemorrhoid, folks, and we don't have a tube of Prep H big enough to deal with it. He's an anti-Semite -- anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian Jimmy Carter. The national hemorrhoid. But wait, there is more to this story. There was not one piece of book news yesterday. There were two. Osama Bin Laden recommended Jimmy Carter's book. And my friend Mark Levin's book Liberty and Tyranny hit the one million-seller list. It has yet to be reviewed by the New York Times or the Washington Post or TIME Magazine or Newsweek or any of that. Which story here do you think made the news pages of the New York Times? If you have to guess, shame on you. The New York Times featured Osama Bin Laden and his book recommendations -- one of which, again I remind you, was Jimmy Carter's.
The New York Times ignored Mark Levin breaking the one-million-copy-sold barrier. They ignored ACORN. They have continued to ignore the lies in Obamacare. They are ignoring the great ratings increase of your host. Brian Maloney at the Radio Equalizer ran through a bunch of numbers. We've linked to his story at RushLimbaugh.com. The LA Times writing a piece on the great performance in August at KFI, didn't mention me. I'm number one in the time slot out there. The New York Times and the State-Controlled Media hate our success. They despise it. They hate us probably more than they love Obama. So there you have it: There is a God. Our national hemorrhoid is on display and has his greatest work being recommended by Osama Bin Laden. What does that say?

http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2009/09/state-run-media-sidestep-limbaugh.html

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RUSH: I have a question about Jimmy Carter -- seriously, now. You remember election of 1980. An overwhelming portion of the country did not think Jimmy Carter was qualified to lead this country, either. Were they racists? I mean, Jimmy Carter was a white guy. I mean, I disagree with Carter for the same reasons I disagree with Obama but somehow when I disagree with Carter I'm not a racist. When I disagree with Obama I am, they say. Here's the national hemorrhoid. This is last night on NBC's Nightly News, Jimmy Carter.

CARTER: I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man. I live in the South and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that shared the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African-Americans. That racism in connection still exists and I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people -- not just in the South, but around the country -- that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It's an abominable circumstance and grieves me and concerns me very deeply.

OBAMA: He's a jackass.

RUSH: You know, if I were President Obama I'd shut this guy up. I know what Obama's trying to do. He's trying to distract here from 10% unemployment; "unacceptably high unemployment for years," they say. He's trying to distract from a $12 trillion debt ceiling. Trillions of dollars of debt for years to come. Not to mention nationalizing two car companies, giving $8 billion of taxpayer stimulus money to ACORN, lying to a joint session of Congress, and an attempt to jam socialized medicine through Congress before anybody read the bill. He's trying to distract from all of that so the race card cures all, in his view. He probably is so distorted about this he thinks it's helpful that the national hemorrhoid pops up on NBC Nightly News last night to utter that utterly inane statement that he gave.

Now, the tea party crowd, they've been accused of racism from day one. The race card's been played against the president's critics from day one. It's a deliberate attempt to minimize the legitimate horror of Americans who understand Obama's War on Prosperity, who understand Obama's generational theft, who understand the insidious nature of high taxes and inflation on those with fixed incomes -- and have known for years about ACORN. This is the president who has an attorney general who said, "We're a nation of cowards on race discussions." He's the guy that went out and called the white cop stupid in the "Skip" Gates incident. Was Obama behaving like a racist when he accused the white cop of racial profiling without knowing the facts? Was he? All right, to the phones. People have patiently waited. I always appreciate that.

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RUSH: Let's go back to the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites, our audio sound bite archives, August 25th, 2008. This is a PBS special coverage of the Democrat National Convention. The guest is the national hemorrhoid, Jimmy Carter. Jim Lehrer of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer then says to the national hemorrhoid, "And do you think that if it happens that he is elected or even just being nominated will send positive ripple effects throughout the country on the race issue?"

CARTER: It already has sent a wave of approbation and admiration in many countries around the world, just knowing that this black boy, who grew up with just a loving mother and a -- and grandparents and that was about all he had to start with, has now had the chance to become the nominee of Democratic Party for president.

OBAMA: He's a jackass.

RUSH: So there's Jimmy Carter back in August of 2008, "this black boy." Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. "Positive ripple effects already started around the world, all over the -- oh, yeah, just the election, the nomination of this black boy with just a loving mother and grandparents. It was about all he had to start with." That's the national hemorrhoid speaking on PBS in August of 2008.

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RUSH: This is not the first time that Barack Obama has played the race card. Remember they played it in the campaign against the Clintons. Good old boy Bill Clinton in South Carolina, they said something he said was racist, "It was a fairytale that Obama would become president," and of course Hillary criticized Obama all during the campaign. Does that make her a racist? It happened during the primary. I mean the Clinton campaign was disgusted. I remember Clinton said, (doing Clinton impression) "They threw the race card on me. I'm down there in South Carolina, I'm trying to help Hillary; trying to help myself; I'm trying to represent America. They threw the race card on me." Yeah, they were very worried about how the racist Democrats were going to vote in Pennsylvania. This is standard, it's page one of the Democrat Party playbook, folks.

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RUSH: In Houston, Leonard, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.

CALLER: Let me take you off speaker.

RUSH: Yeah. Okay, I'm glad to be off speaker. Yeah.

CALLER: Yes. Thank you for taking my call. I don't normally (unintelligible) I've been listening to you for a little more than five, I don't know, six, seven years, but I've been hearing people calling in talking about racism, and I don't think it's fair. You had one caller calling in denying Obama being a racist. And I'm seeing they're so far in the tank, they've gotten so emotional that some of his supporters aren't even American enough to just listen at some of the things he's said, saying his grandmother was a typical white person, just imagine -- and I'm asking some of your callers that are supporters, specifically my people, black people, just imagine if George Bush had made those statements, or how about Sarah Palin? They really hate Sarah Palin. What if she'd had a black man taking care of her kids and said, "Well, he's a typical black man," I mean just slip it in and think about it. She'd be the biggest racist, or if John McCain sat in Jeremiah Wright's church and Jeremiah Wright was preaching the hatred towards black people the way Jeremiah Wright was preaching hatred towards white people, he would be the biggest racist. And you have to be naive, slightly ignorant, to not look at things on that level.

RUSH: Yeah, it's not just that, you gotta have blinders on in addition to naive and ignorant. You don't want to hear this stuff. They're overreaching, folks, in everything they're doing, and they've gone to this, well, big time now with Jimmy Carter out there, the national hemorrhoid. Half the people of this country are not going to sit around idly and just take it, being called racists when they're not, this is not going to fly.

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Read the Background Material...

• Real Clear Politics: Carter Claims There Is "Racist" Tone Against Obama

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/09/15/carter_claims_there_is_racist_tone_against_obama.html

• AP: Jimmy Carter: Wilson Comments 'Based on Racism'

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090916/D9AO5MA00.html

• American Thinker: Jimmy Carter Says You're a Racist

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/jimmy_carter_says_youre_a_raci.html

• Real Clear Politics: The Left's Answer: It Must Be Racism - David Harsanyi

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/16/why_cant_we_all_just_get_along_98322.html

• Sweetness & Light: Carter Said What Racists Wanted To Hear

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/american-experience-jimmy-carter-transcript

• HotAir: House Democrat: If We Don't Censure Joe Wilson, the KKK Will Ride Through the Countryside

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/15/house-democrat-if-we-dont-censure-joe-wilson-the-kkk-will-ride-through-the-countryside/

• NewsBusters: ABC: Obama Critics 'Driven By Refusal to Accept Black President'; NBC Trumpets Carter's Racism Charges

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/09/15/abc-obama-critics-driven-refusal-accept-black-president-nbc-trumpets-ca

• PowerLine: Bin Laden Recommends

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/09/024524.php

• CNSNews: Never Reviewed by NYT or WashPost, Levin's 'Liberty and Tyranny' Has Now Sold 1 Million Copies

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/54079

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Carter, the National Hemorrhoid, Doubles Down on the Race Card

September 17, 2009

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RUSH: The national hemorrhoid has doubled down. After the White House went through the motions of making it look like they're throwing him under the bus, the national hemorrhoid goes out there, makes a speech in Atlanta, and doubles down on the racism, the fact that racism is behind all the criticism of President Obama.

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RUSH: Sugar City, Idaho, Josh, you're up first. It's great to have you with us.

CALLER: It's good to talk to you again, Rush.

RUSH: Thank you.

CALLER: My comment was, you know, it actually sickens me and infuriates me to no end, was how Congress and the Democrats wanted to get Sotomayor into office as fast as possible. But when you get a white congressman to stand up and say one comment that says "you lie," they automatically deem him as a racist, even though his comment had nothing to do with ethnicity or religion or sex, but Sotomayor can come out and blatantly say, I can make better decisions as a Latina female than a white male.

RUSH: Exactly right. You got it nailed. As I mentioned earlier, this is an ongoing effort, three things going on. They're panicked, they're throwing the race card, they are in the midst of confusion and disarray here. Obama did this during the campaign. During the primaries they set it up: if he loses it's because this country is racist. And then in the general election: if he loses, it's been this country is racist. It's all these people know. Now, when they go after Clarence Thomas it's not racism, when they go after Condoleezza Rice it's not racism. What they're trying to do is convince everybody that conservatism is racism. You know, this stuff is close to backfiring on these people. Now you got the White House leading a movement to claim that half the country's racist and the real bottom line here is this is cover for Obama's failure. If he doesn't get anywhere near what he promised, if he doesn't get anywhere near what he wants, "it wasn't his ideas, it wasn't his personality, it wasn't his actions, it wasn't his agenda, 'cause he's Mr. Perfect, no. This country's racist." That's what they're trying to set up. It's laughable. It's also embarrassing.

These are some of the most closed-minded bigots. Oh, there's a fourth thing going on here too and that's projection. These people are the racists. It is the media, it is the Democrat Party, it's the American left that looks at people and sees the differences. They are the ones that see gender, sex, skin color, try to guess religions and so forth. They are the ones. They are projecting who they really are on to us, and they do this in many, many areas. Not just race. They do it on bigotry, sexism, homophobic, all of this stuff. They're the ones that group people. They're the ones that look at people with condescension and arrogance. They're the ones that look down on average, ordinary Americans with contempt. You know, we're like Ronald Reagan, rising tide lifts all boats. We're in a great country. We don't care who's involved in making it great. They're all Americans as far as we're concerned. Anybody here legally? Get involved. This administration is tearing that apart. This administration is making sure that there is no prosperity. You know when Obama launches an attack on profit, which he does very frequently, he's really attacking prosperity. In his joint, I said something about health care insurance being burdened with overhead and profits. Profits are what come after the overhead. Profits are what's left after you have the overhead.

When you hear Obama attack profits, I want you to substitute a word. Use the word prosperity. Profits lead to prosperity and that's under attack. Now, it's undignified and there's a story here in the Washington Post carrying the water: "Race Issue Deflected, Now as in Campaign." It's by Anne Kornblut and Krissah Thompson. "A debate over the role of race in the current criticism of President Obama is forcing the White House to confront a volatile issue it would rather avoid." So the New York Times, Washington Post, "Oh, boy, Obama is trying to steer clear this." Wrong-o! He's behind it. It's coming from the White House. It's coming from Axelrod. It's coming from Rahm Emanuel. These are the guys that give dictation to the State-Controlled Media. Race issue defected. If that's true, if the race issue is deflected, well, was it abandoned, or deflected? That's a key difference here. Deflected is one thing. Still out there, still flying around, they just deflected. Abandoned? That's what they're trying to tell us. If it was working, the White House would be piling on. Trust me on this.

If this Jimmy Carter, National Hemorrhoid doubling down, if this were working, you'd be seeing the White House, you'd see Gibbs, somebody up there would be piling on this thing. "We agree the criticism of our great president is in fact racist." If it were working, they'd be saying that. Since it's not working that's why they want to deflect all this. But it's one of their command operations, coming right out of their command and control center, the office of Rahm the ballerina Emanuel. "On Wednesday, Gibbs said the White House has not asked members of the black caucus to stop ascribing a racist motive to Obama critics." Oh, they've not asked the black caucus to stop the smears? Well, we have a montage, and of course this is Gibbs being peppered with questions on Carter and race, and I ask you as you listen to this, who is it that's obsessed with this subject?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Jimmy Carter saying that he believes an overwhelming majority of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward the president is because he's black.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER: Are you saying the president is not concerned about the climate of hate in this country today?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Would the president regard statements from such a prominent American, former president, son of the South, as he described himself, helpful?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER: Because he's black.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER: Why is he or why are you so reluctant to talk about it? He gave this big speech during the campaign on race.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Why is this not a teachable moment in terms of the role that race is playing in society?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER: There is now a conversation that's risen to the level of the former president about race.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Has the White House instructed any Democrats, either in the House of Representatives or elsewhere, to stop talking about race?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: The former president is raising this. Is it at this point incumbent upon the president to say, "You know what, no, I don't agree with him."?

RUSH: So they're trying to do two things here, the State-Controlled Media. But really as I listen to this montage, they really want Obama to come out and join the fray. Is it time for a teachable moment? Is it time for Obama to stand up and say, "Yes, half this country is racist, and we're going to deal with it. That's part of my campaign promise, and we're going to deal with it." That's what they want. They want Obama to come out and confirm their reporting. And then there's some lone voices in there, "Wait a minute, wait a minute. Shouldn't the president stand up and shut this down?" Which is what he ought to do, if he had any dignity, if he had any real concern for ending strife and division in this country. He'd stand up and say, "Stop this, stop acting like children." He'd direct his comments at the media and other people leveling this accusation. Here's Jimmy Carter, the National Hemorrhoid, doubling down last night.

CARTER: When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States of America as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kind of things are beyond the bounds of the way president --

RUSH: Wait. That's not what the sign says. It says bury health care with Kennedy. Resume tape.

CARTER: -- have ever been accepted, even with people who disagree. And I think people that are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African-American. It's a racist attitude.

RUSH: Now, the next sound bite, we don't have time for it right now, but it's Gibbs and the White House apparently throwing Carter under the bus. But, if they wanted Carter to stop talking about this, they could get him to stop talking about it. Just call him up, "Jimmy Earl, not helpful right now. Hold and keep your powder dry, please drop this." But they are not doing that. They want Carter to continue out there saying this stuff, which is great for us, I mean he's the biggest failure in American presidencies in our lifetime, failure in foreign policy and domestically and Obama is following right in his footsteps.

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RUSH: Here. Audio sound bite number five. This is "Gibbsy," the White House press secretary, pretending to throw Jimmy Carter under the bus. It's Jack Tapper asking the question: "Is former President Carter saying that he believes an overwhelming majority of the [inaudible] demonstrated animosity toward the president 'cause he's black?"

GIBBS: Well eh, eh, eh, let's stick with former President Carter said. Eh, eh, eh, eh, uhh, the answer, uh, that I'm going to give is the same answer that I gave on Sunday when I was asked this question. Uh, the president does not believe that criticism comes based on the color of his skin. We understand that people have disagreements with some of the decisions that we've had made and some of the extraordinary actions that had to be undertaken by this administration and previous administrations, uh, to stabilize our financial system; to ensure viability of our domestic auto industry.

RUSH: BS, BS, BS. He lost his train of thought there. The way to describe Gibbs here is "wandering in vain for a desperate thought." The fact of the matter is, Gibbs can sit up there all day long and say, "Ah, the president does not believe criticism comes based on the color of his skin." Until Obama says that and puts a stop to all of this, it's going to continue. Nobody is going to believe what Gibbs says about this, because the president hasn't said it -- and the reason the president hasn't said it is because the president hasn't asked the black caucus to shut up; and he certainly has his two hacks, Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel, running this whole operation out of the White House.

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Read the Background Material...

• FOXNews: Obama and WH Team Turn Deaf Ear to Carter's Racism Allegations, Deny 'National Conversation' on Race 'Going on Right Now'

http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/09/16/obama-and-wh-team-turn-deaf-ear-to-carters-racism-allegations-deny-national-conversation-on-race-going-on-right-now/

• American Thinker: When Jimmy Carter Ginned Up Race Hatred to Get Elected Governor

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/when_jimmy_carter_ginned_up_ra.html

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