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Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia
Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:24:40 EST
From:         "Michael A. Kline" <MKLINE@VDH.BITNET>
Subject:      Colorado Vote-3

    Colorado Vote, Part 3
    Preferential treatment of homosexuals, visit Colorado--------------->

    Okay, This one is Rush. He did a piece about Colorado wanting poor
blacks in their country because of a news article. This got some flack
from Colorado and he also goes into the vote.

    Rush: You know folks, let me tell you what I'm always doing. I'm
always stunned and surprised when I find out the degree of anger I
generate, at me. I'm stunned when I find out how mad I make people. I am
the nicest guy. I'm a harmless, loveable, little fuzz ball. I mean nobody
any harm. I don't impose my views on anybody. I don't know what I do that
makes people so mad. And as each day comes and goes I learn a little bit
more and such is the case here.

    You may recall, if you watched our program last week, that Boulder
Colorado, in fact put up the headline. (Music plays, scenes from
Colorado. His staff does things like this all the time.) We're showing
you some shots of Colorado, it's a great place. By the way, there's a
boycott going on out there, that's why we think you should go. Make
vacation plans and head to Colorado now, go anywhere you want in
Colorado, but don't do what the Hollywood left wants you to do. Show that
headline.

    "NEW YORK POST: Colorado city wants more low-income folk to move in".

    Now, this is a story that quotes the mayor. We did this last week.
The mayor, we did this last week. The mayor says what's happened is,
"Many upscale people from both coasts are moving to town. I'm worried.
Boulder is becoming a upper middle class and very white community. I
don't think that's healthy for any community."

    So not only did I think "He must want low-income black people there
then." But so did the New York Post and so did a lot of people, the
headline proves it. So we go on the air, in this show and say, "Hey, they
think they're too white and too rich and they want some people to come
out and be poor. And they want them to be black and not white."

    Well, in an editorial, in the Daily Camera, in Boulder Colorado.
"Alas and alack, how they love to make fun of us out there. The subject
this time is Boulder's largely affluent and predominantly white populous
which allegedly has the mayor wanting to import thousands of poor people
of color wanting to balance things out. The mayor never said anything
like that. But, on Tuesday, as calls came in from around the country, the
mayor found out how hard it is to take back a statement that was never
made."

    They have gotten made, by the way, at me. They claim that I'm the one
spreading all of this.

    Article: "Rush Limbaugh twisted the mayor's comments around and
broadcast the idea that Boulder is in the market for low paying jobs, and
poor black people and that the city will then make sure that they stay
poor."

    I said that, I did say it. Then this editorial continues: "It's easy
to dismiss the rantings of Limbaugh who from what we know of him, never
lets a possible charge of absurdity stand in the way of shooting off his
mouth." All right, I can take it. I can take it.

    This my friends is the big lesson. This is how I've learned what it
is I do that angers people. Can we agree that they are angry out there at
over what I said? Yes, we can agree.

    What do I do? I simply attach meaning to what these people say.
Remember, liberalism, symbolism over substance. Let's follow this through
logically. Let's do it socratically, like Socratees did.

    Now follow me: You have a community where the mean income is 10%
higher than the nation. Most of your population is white, and most of it
is doing quite well. And so you say, "That's not good. We want to balance
it." Logic takes over. What balances white, and too affluent? Black and
poor. Now, if you want balance, once you've got the black or Hispanic,
people of color, and poor or lower income people out there, for balance,
don't you need for them to stay poor? Don't you?

    I mean if they come out there and start earning a lot of money,
you've defeated the whole purpose. What you want is a more diverse
community. Am I not right about this? There can be no question about
this. I haven't misquoted anybody. I haven't misstated anything. I have
simply put the truth on it. I have simply attached meaning to what the
mayor said. So now I'm ranting and raving and I'm a lunatic or they
didn't say that, but I'm talking about absurdity. I am talking about
absurdity, but it's there absurdity. I'm not being absurd about this, I'm
simply attaching the meaning to this.

    Now, along the lines of all of this, comes Barbara Streisand...

    MAKS> Good place to break. This is long enough. Notice how this break
line always looks the same?...

    In His Love,
    Maks

 Ps 66:7: He rules by His might forever;
          His eyes keep watch on the nations;
          Let not the rebellious exalt themselves.
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