Media thrilled Obama spoke to them without a teleprompter Fri., July 19. Rush Limbaugh plays montage of 13 media members so proud that Obama spoke without a teleprompter. David Brooks said Obama was 'a symphony'

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7/22/13, "Obama's Trayvon Speech Shows He's No Different Than Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton," Rush Limbaugh transcript

"RUSH:  Let's go, Mike, to audio sound bite number six, a media montage.  I spoke of it earlier how excited the media was over this.

WOLF BLITZER: It wasn't an Oval Office address looking into the camera, reading from the teleprompter.

GLORIA BORGER: ...not using a teleprompter like we very often see this president.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: (b-roll noise) No teleprompter, few notes.

BROOKE BALDWIN: Not using a teleprompter!

LUKE RUSSERT: There was not a teleprompter!

MICHAEL SMERCONISH: There was no teleprompter!

SUSAN HENDRICKS: Without a teleprompter, by the way.

JONATHAN CAPEHART: Unscripted, no teleprompter.

WENDELL GOLER: (outdoor noise) He spoke without notes or a teleprompter.

ATHENA JONES: (outdoor noise) Very few notes. No teleprompter.

KRISTEN WELKER: (b-roll noise) It was extemporaneous. No teleprompter.

MARK SHIELDS: He did it without a teleprompter!

ERIN BURNETT: He did so in a 17-minute speech, and he did it without a teleprompter!

RUSH:  Wow!  Wow!  They are shocked! Five-and-a-half years into his presidency, Obama gave his first speech without a teleprompter. They were so impressed, and we all know why.  See, you didn't need the prompter for this because he was gonna be entirely totally open.  Every other speech is scripted so that Obama doesn't reveal who he really is. That's the reason for the prompter is to keep the mask and camouflage on."...

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"RUSH: Let's go back audio sound bites here. 

This is Tavis Smiley.  Tavis Smiley was on Meet the Depressed on Sunday during the roundtable. They were having a discussion about Obama's remarks about the Trayvon Martin case, and David Gregory said, "Tavis Smiley, you were critical of the president.  You said on Twitter his comments were 'as weak as presweetened Kool-Aid.' He took too long to show up and express outrage."

SMILEY:  This town has been spinning a story that's not altogether true.  He did not walk to the podium for an impromptu address to the nation.  He was pushed to that podium.  A week of protest outside the White House, pressure building on him inside the White House pushed him to that podium.  The bottom line is this is not Libya. This is America.  On this issue you cannot "lead from behind."  What's lacking in this moment is moral leadership.  The country is begging for it. They're craving it.

RUSH:  Now, I don't know. Maybe Tavis here is critiquing the media, and he may have a point there.  They went into immediate spin mode after that speech and started talking about, "Well, this is the greatest speech Obama's ever given! Why, it was so good, he even went out there and gave it without the teleprompter! Oh, man. Oh, man. This guy is as good as we've always thought."

Tavis was saying (paraphrased), "Wait a minute. There was nothing genuine about this.  This town's spinning a story about Obama's speech that it doesn't deserve."  Now here is David Brooks.  David Brooks of the New York Times was also part of the roundtable on Meet the Depressed.  David Brooks once had dinner with Obama. It was the first time. There have been many subsequent occasions, too, but this is the man who thought -- because of the crease in Obama's slacks -- that he was destined to be a great president. 

We did not make that up. David Brooks actually wrote that as well as said it. The crease in his slacks so impressed David Brooks... What do you have to be looking at to see that, by the way?  When is the last time...? Dawn, when's the last time you noticed the crease in a guy's slacks? ...

Brooks couldn't help but notice it.  So on Meet the Press, David Gregory said, "David Maraniss, who wrote a biography of the president, writes this morning that once the president had reached the White House, quote, 'It appeared that his intense interest in the subject of race diminished.

"'He would be judged by the content of his presidency not the color of his skin. Race seemingly became unimportant if not irrelevant to the first black president of the United States.'" You know, I think this is an interesting point.  This is David Gregory quoting David Maraniss in a piece that ran Sunday, and I think this is how Obama had everybody fooled.  Remember Obama was portrayed as this post-racial president, post-partisan president.

Everything was gonna vanish!

There wasn't gonna be any more racism. There wasn't gonna be any more partisanship. There wasn't gonna be any more bickering. There was gonna be total unity! I think these guys all swallowed that Kool-Aid, that "presweetened Kool-Aid."  They all swallowed it. They all drank it. They all had this image of what Obama was, and they made him fit into it -- whatever the truth was -- and they really believed that Obama didn't care about race once he became president.

When anybody paying attention would know that's the primary thing that animated him.  It's the primary thing that informed him, the primary source of his grievance.  Obama is grievance politics, and the primary reason for that grievance is race.  It's in everything that he's done. It's in every policy. It's in almost every speech.  That and unions, victimization, minorities. They've been screwed by the majority for time immemorial.

It's all there.

Now, these guys say Obama, when he became president, he forgot all about that.  They wanted Brooks' opinion on that.

BROOKS: It's important to remember race is his first subject, as it would be if you had a -- a black father and a white mother. And all the mental habits he brings to all the other issues, grow out of the way he framed race and the way he started thinking about race. I thought this speech was one of the highlights of the presidency. I thought it was a symphony of indignation, professionalism, executive responsibility, personal feeling. It had all these different things woven together, I thought beeeeautifully. But it's important to remember, race is how he thinks.

RUSH:  Man, oh, man. I just marvel. There are people inside Washington who, when Brooks said that, "Oh, man, I wish I had the ability to write that way! Oh, I wish I had the ability to speak that way! Oh, wow, is that not good?"  Never mind that it's full of it.  "I thought the speech was one of the highlights of the presidency."  "Thirty-five years ago, I could have been Trayvon."  "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon Martin."  "Oh, that speech is one of the highlights of the presidency! I thought it was a symphony of indignation, professionalism, executive responsibility, personal feeling."

A symphony." 


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