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Rush: Many "people on Wall Street are Jewish. So I wonder if there's starting to be some buyer's remorse" about Obama

January 20, 2010 2:45 pm ET

From the January 20 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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RUSH LIMBAUGH: If you have often wondered just out of, you know, a legitimately curious political sense -- if you have asked yourself why are so many Jewish people, liberal, what when it seemed so much of what liberals do would be anathema to Jewish people, particularly abortion, but any number of things -- taxes, tax increase. Look it -- you know something, folks?

There are a lot of people, when you say banker, people think Jewish. People who have prejudice, people who have, you know -- what's the best way to say -- a little prejudice about them. To some people, bankers -- code word for Jewish -- and guess who Obama's assaulting? He's assaulting bankers. He's assaulting money people. And a lot of those people on Wall Street are Jewish. So I wonder if there's starting to be some buyer's remorse there.

Anyway, if you've -- if you have often asked that question, if you've been puzzled by so many Jewish people vote liberal or vote Democrat, you -- give Norman's book a shot. It's called, Why Jews are liberals? He's Jewish and he would know. And it's -- look, it's a good read. And Norman is a -- there's no other way to say it -- he's a profound intellectual but he's not an egghead elitist. And he's written this book with an effort to have anybody that reads it understand exactly what he is talking about.

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    • Author by txthinker (January 20, 2010 2:48 pm ET)
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      I guess Rush got tired of attacking blacks, women, and liberals. Now he's going after Jewish people......
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      • Author by AB-001 (January 20, 2010 4:07 pm ET)
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        Consider Limbaugh's constant drumbeat: Liberals control the media, Liberals run Hollywood, Liberals are Communists, etc.

        Wasn't that long ago where the word "Jews" was used in those canards. Rush is giving the same Jew-hatin' horse hockey with new vernacular.

        Remember when he complained about the "liberals" going after Mel Gibson and The Passion of the Christ? It was a movement spearheaded by the Anti Defamation League, a Jewish organization, but Rush wouldn't say tell his listeners that part of the story. Better to just say "liberals" and let the audience figure out the rest.

        I've seen Rush's type many times; he's not against "the Jews" in the least. They can be his banker or his lawyer. Just don't have one move next door or marry his sister.
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    • Author by mmfa.fan (January 20, 2010 2:50 pm ET)
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      So an intellectual with whom Rush disagrees is an egghead elitist, and one with whom he agrees is not. Got it.
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      • Author by neon desert (January 20, 2010 3:24 pm ET)
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        I think what Rush is saying is that the author attempted to make the book simple enough that even Rush's audience might understand it.

        Whereas your typical author would attempt to use descriptive terms and multisyllabic words to more accurately convey a concept, Rush is impressed with an author who can avoid the truth in a myriad of different ways and still connect with the imbecile demographic.
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    • Author by soze169880 (January 20, 2010 2:55 pm ET)
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      Shorter Limbaugh: "The only thing those hook-nosed Christ-killers love more than being dirty liberals is their money."
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      • Author by smartperson (January 20, 2010 4:03 pm ET)
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        Hey Soze,

        I am Jewish and not hook nosed, did not kill Christ and would love to have a dialog face to face. Let's see you back up your hate filled words. I know you would retract your words and apologize to me.
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        • Author by magnolialover (January 20, 2010 4:37 pm ET)
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          Umm, it wasn't Soze saying those things, he was reading Rush's thoughts, not posting his own. Reading comprehension, goes a LONG way.
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    • Author by markbfoot199 (January 20, 2010 3:00 pm ET)
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      I wonder what MMFA will call the author that wrote the book that Rush was referring to in this clip, oh wait MMFA did not let you all hear that piece. Rush was talking about a book by an Jewish Author wondering why Jews are liberals.
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      • Author by soze169880 (January 20, 2010 3:02 pm ET)
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        ...and he, independently of Podhoretz, invoked anti-Semitic "moneygrubber" stereotypes while discussing it. Sorry.
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        • Author by PrestonSturges (January 21, 2010 8:41 pm ET)
             
          Actually N-Pod also invokes those stereotypes, which is why the GOP throws money at him. If he were black, N-Pod would be the guy saying "Lawsay Massuh, you sure looks unhappy. May I cheer you up with some tap dancing?"
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        • Author by PrestonSturges (January 21, 2010 8:49 pm ET)
             
          N-Pod invokes anitsemitic stereotypes all by himself. That's why the GOP pays him. If N-Pod were black, he'd be saying "Lawsy Massah, let me cheer you up with some tap dancing!" Apparently it's possible to make a good living being the token minority.
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      • Author by LKL (January 20, 2010 6:21 pm ET)
           
        Actually, that's perfectly clear from the clip MMFA posted. Try listening next time.
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      • Author by Johaely (January 20, 2010 9:25 pm ET)
           
        With comments like these, context pretty uch makes alomst no difference.
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    • Author by DAWUSS (January 20, 2010 3:02 pm ET)
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      But he's not calling Obama Hitler... He just... - ahh forget it, he'll go back to that meme tomorrow anyway.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (January 20, 2010 3:11 pm ET)
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      Rush: Many "people on Wall Street are Jewish. I wonder if there's starting to be some buyer's remorse" about Obama

      Hey Rush Milton Freeman was Jewish Is the people pi$$ed off at him also too? They bought his foolish ideologies for over 30 years since Reagan and Thatcher praised him starting in the late 1970's up until this recession starting in 2005.

      Obama is falling for the same ideologies as well, because of who he has in the democratic party and in his administration cabinet. It is time to let that BS economic policy go and explore other areas away from preadatory capitalism.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (January 20, 2010 3:13 pm ET)
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      Most of the Jews that I know are liberal in their world view. Many of them are fairly conservative in their lifestyles, but they look at the world as liberals. They don't much like Rush, but so far, they like Obama.
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    • Author by inspectorbucket (January 20, 2010 3:25 pm ET)
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      He's correct!!

      We do have buyer's remorse.....and he is trying to screw Israel as well.

      That's not anti-semitism....you need to go over to the threads on HuffPo to see real anti-semitism. Nobody does it better than Leftists.
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      • Author by snoopy (January 20, 2010 4:16 pm ET)
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        You have to have voted for him to have buyer's remorse, silly neocon!
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      • Author by magnolialover (January 20, 2010 4:38 pm ET)
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        Give us some links to examples of such things, and aside, as we've said, I don't know HOW many times before, comments sections is not quite the same as say, having a radio show that is listened to and broadcast to millions and millions of people.
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    • Author by shaggles (January 20, 2010 3:27 pm ET)
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      What? I thought Jews hated Obama because he's anti-Israel and Wall Street hated him because he's anti-business? WOuldn't that mean the Jewish brokers hated him twice as much? How could they be having buyers remorse if they already hated him twice as much as everybody else?
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      • Author by raddave43 (January 20, 2010 3:39 pm ET)
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        And don't forget the fact that Obama is an undercover Muslim.
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        • Author by shaggles (January 20, 2010 3:44 pm ET)
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          Yeah. And because all Jews hate all Muslims that means they hated him 3 times as much!
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    • Author by GBU-15 (January 20, 2010 3:38 pm ET)
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      Ever how much the Teabaggers peddle hatred and fear so much? They have no domestic policies. They only offer tax cuts and borrow and spend agendas.
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      • Author by raddave43 (January 20, 2010 3:48 pm ET)
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        Hasn't that been the official platform for the publikun party since 1980?
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    • Author by MickD (January 20, 2010 3:41 pm ET)
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      Let's hope that none of them invested in Rush's syndicator.
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    • Author by AB-001 (January 20, 2010 3:44 pm ET)
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      Wow! Rush is twisting himself in all kinds of knots trying not to sound like a guy who would stereotype Jews as bankers....while sounding like a guy who would stereotype Jews as bankers.

      Regarding the book Limbaugh mentions, Rush says: "He's Jewish and he would know." Classic quote. A neat variation on "you know how those people are."

      And I love how he talks about Jews as if they are some kind of "other" in this country, not part of the national fabric.

      Es dreck, schtunk
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    • Author by Lizinbklyn (January 20, 2010 3:58 pm ET)
         
      Yeah, Pillboy, every time I walk into the bank, I think JEWS!

      Jesus drives the Moneylenders from the Temple
      - John. 2.13-22


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    • Author by DuckyCase (January 20, 2010 4:13 pm ET)
         
      Yep. We have no values above and beyond our love of money. Mega Dittos, Rush.
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    • Author by big2xrube6146 (January 20, 2010 4:35 pm ET)
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      The only remorse in this country is that Rush is still on the air. Who beleives any of the loony BS that comes out of his mouth?
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    • Author by magnolialover (January 20, 2010 4:40 pm ET)
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      I'd say, looking at the trends on Wall Street since March of 2009, that the folks on Wall Street (Jewish or not) are A-OK with Obama, since the market has recovered quite well, and many of the banks on the brink of destruction, not so long ago, are flush with money again.

      I'd think WS kinfa would like Obama.
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    • Author by MRF (January 20, 2010 5:34 pm ET)
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      He truly is a modern day Father Coughlin
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    • Author by kezboard (January 20, 2010 6:22 pm ET)
         
      I guess Rush's logic here is something like 'many people think Jews are all bankers, therefore Jews are all bankers, Obama is screwing the bankers, therefore Obama is screwing the Jews'. That's messed up. Both the antisemitic part and the part that says that Obama is screwing the bankers (really?) Also: I'm not an expert on Jewish theology, but as far as I know most forms of Judaism do not forbid abortion.
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      • Author by AB-001 (January 21, 2010 8:00 pm ET)
           
        In fact, most Jewish interpretations of abortion say that the health and well being of the mother comes first and terminating a pregnancy is not wrong under in situations where the woman would suffer as a result of carrying to term
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