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Yesterday, while listening to Rush on my drive home from work, he took a call from a man who accused him of being a racist. I thought it was worth posting the dialog between Rush and the caller and Rush’s explanation for why the black vote almost always goes to the Democratic candidate. RV

From: rushlimbaugh.com

RUSH: We’ll start in Canoga Park, California. Hi Fred. It’s great to have you with us, sir.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I think you’re a racist.

RUSH: Well, that’s refreshing. Why, Fred?

CALLER: Well, I — I think you’re insinuating that blacks are too stupid to have a learning curve.

RUSH: No, I think you’re inferring that.

CALLER: No, I think you’re saying it.

RUSH: I’m not. You’re inferring it. I’m not implying anything. I stated facts.

CALLER: You’re saying that –

RUSH: All these things happened, and Democrats continued to get the votes of the majority of black voters. It’s just their political allegiance. It’s not a comment on race or intelligence.

CALLER: Well, you’re saying there’s nothing the Democrats can do that — that’ll stop the — the blacks from voting for them, that the blacks are too stupid to even vote in their own best interests.

RUSH: No, no, no, no. I didn’t say that! You’re putting words in my mouth.

CALLER: Oh, you didn’t say that? You didn’t say that blacks keep voting for stuff that’s not in their own best interests and that they can’t learn?

RUSH: I didn’t say that. I did not say that. This is a classic illustration. You heard what you wanted to hear based on your own biases and prejudices. I simply recited some facts for you. These are not arguable. These things I said are not arguable. Now, you want to talk about why blacks continue to vote for Democrats despite this? I’ll be glad to tell you about that.

CALLER: Yes, let’s — let’s hear the Rush psychology.

RUSH: For 50 years, black people in this country have been told by elected Democrats that Republicans and conservatives are racists, sexists, bigots, and homophobes; that they have no desire for them to become equal or progress economically — and then you couple that with ministers like Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright reinforcing what other black leaders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson do, and it all becomes very simple. They have been scared to death. Black voters have been told for 50 years that their lives will be ruined if they vote for Republicans, because Republicans don’t care about them. When you vote out of fear, it’s the same thing the Democrats have done with elderly people, our seasoned citizens and Social Security. It’s almost predictable that every election cycle, the Democrats, somebody, will predict or tell old people — with phone calls, robophone calls, push polling or even blatantly out in the open — senior citizens that Republicans want to take back their Social Security.

I remember in 1988. I was in Sacramento, California, and Alan Cranston (the Senator from California then) was telling people on television out there, Republicans wanted to kick senior citizens out of their homes if Reagan was reelected. Now, if you’re a senior citizen and you don’t pay a whole lot of attention and you hear that and you’re a Democrat and you have party loyalty going into this and you hear Cranston say that, and all you have is your Social Security; you’re not going to take the chance that Cranston’s wrong, because if he’s telling you, “He’s in the Senate. Why, he’s a powerful man. He’s a United States senator!” If he’s telling you that Republicans will kick you out of your house or take your Social Security away, you’re not going to take the chance that he’s wrong. It’s the same thing with the black population here. For 50 years they have been lied to. They have been made to live in fear of Republicans. It’s gotten to the point here, Fred — this is undeniable.

Black people in this country who have achieved great things without going through the Democrat Party civil rights prescriptions to do so — and I can give you a host of names if you want — are routinely savaged and destroyed or at least attempts are made to destroy them, as Uncle Toms. For example, Clarence Thomas, Shelby Steele. There are a number of highly accomplished black people who have become Republicans, and they are held out as traitors. How can you explain it otherwise when young black kids are told in school if they learn to do well on tests, they’re being “too white”? Who’s telling them this? It isn’t us. It’s the Democrat Party and its agents. All I’m trying to do is make it easy for the superdelegates, here. They know they got a problem. The problem is that Obama cannot win. But they are afraid to pull the nomination from him because he’s getting 80% of the black vote; and they think the black vote will not show up in November and vote Democrat, and I’m simply trying to tell them that there’s a 50-year history of showing that they have done far worse.

I mean, what worse can you do than destroy the black family with welfare, that didn’t work, and took the place of the father and the husband? What more can you do to black people than destroy their family? And Democrats still vote for them. I have said on this program for countless years, countless times: If it were me, and I’ve been holding out hope and listening to the promises of a political party for 50 years — and after all those 50 years I’m still complaining and whining about same circumstances I was in 50 years ago — I’d begin to question my vote. “Wait a minute. You know, you guys keep promising these things, and nothing ever happens. You keep blaming the Republicans for my problems. You promise you’re going to fix ‘em, and then you forget us after the election. I think you’re taking us for granted.” I would start to question it. But that hasn’t happened. It has not happened. The Democrat Party is perceived in the minds of 80 to 90% of the black population, as its only hope. This is the result of fear that’s been instilled. So, this little litany of things I said to try to assure the superdelegates that they could do what they want without any fear whatsoever, blacks will leave them; is unarguable. It’s pure, 100% fact.