From the May 2 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Rush Limbaugh: Larry Wilmore's Speech Proves Trump Has The Integrity To Be President
Limbaugh: Wilmore’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner Speech Shows Obama Has Lost “The Integrity And The Moral Force” Of The White House
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RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST):So not only has life not improved for African-Americans. Not one thing that so many people voted for Obama for, not one thing, has actually come to pass. It’s one of the big disappointments a lot of people have. And I think crossing the t and dotting the i is this Larry Wilmore wrap-up to the White House Correspondents' Dinner. “Yo Barry. You did it. You my --” How's that advancing anything? I know there are going to be some of you, Rush you need to lighten up, you're taking all this way, way too seriously, it's just a joke, it's just a comedy routine. No folks, it's more than that. It's indicative that there isn't much respect for the office of the presidency.
Remember, these guys in the media are Obama's buddies! These are his friends doing this! This to me was just a huge, huge hit on the integrity and the moral force and authority that has been lost by this White House. Now I know it's a little late for this and it's, look, Larry Wilmore not doing this would not change anything, moral authority of this White House long ago vanished, but this was just another indication here of how things have not gotten better in any of the ways people hoped. I mean the economy for everybody is bad, don't misunderstand. I mean the economy, the job circumstance, the circumstances for everybody, day-to-day life, there's more and more misery, more and more unhappiness, more and more anxiety, more and more fear. But you look at the unemployment rate in the African-American community, you look at the unemployment rate of African American teenagers, you look at the murder rate [of] African-Americans, the black-on-black crime, you look at that and there's nobody that anywhere that can statistically or any other way tell you that things have gotten better. And I'm just wanting to remind you of why so many people voted for Obama, hoping that his election would mean so much, it would be so momentous. It would serve such a great purpose, and there has been this realization that we haven't even gotten close.
Now of course there are reasons for it. Obama never intended any of that. That's not what Obama viewed his election to be president -- I mean, you, can anybody actually look at the plight of minorities in America and say that we have either a president or a Democrat Party actually focused on them? That the best you can do is say, well, at least they're trying, at least they have good intentions, you Republicans just don't care. It always amazes me how good intentions, failure after failure after failure, designed failure after designed failure after designed failure, somehow can be forgotten or erased simply by assuming well at least they tried. I mean here's Obama refusing to denounce, and I don't how many in the press corps have either, I don’t know, there maybe have some that have. Juan Williams did, Juan Williams got this right. I don't know about too many others. But Obama didn't denounce this; he smiled and accepted it and even applauded it. Just please, can we, can we spare me this talk that Trump doesn't have the integrity to be president after watching what happened at the White House Correspondents' Dinner? Anybody want to tell me Ted Cruz poses a threat to the country if he's elected president. He doesn't have the integrity, he doesn't have this, he's too godlike, he's too sanctimonious, Trump is too whatever -- can we spare all that? Because folks, there isn't the slightest chance that anything other than Obama is going to be an improvement.
Previously:
Limbaugh: After Jenteal's Interview, “I Can Now” Say "'Nigga' With An A" Because “It's Not Racist”