Chicago area shock jock Mancow Muller was hailed in some quarters recently for submitting himself to waterboarding and then admitting that it constitutes “torture” — although there is some evidence that it might have been a faked stunt…)
Whatever the truth about the waterboarding, however, as blogger Josh Kalven has noted, it’s still “worth remembering how rancid his WLS show often is.” Regarding Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s recent comment that “them Jews” in the White House won’t let President Obama talk to him, for example, Mancow absurdly asserted that, because of his connection to Wright, Obama is an “anti-Semite” who was “popping champagne” following the recent shooting at the Holocaust Museum!
Kalven’s post has all the awful audio, if you can bear to listen. If not, here’s a full transcript:
MULLER: Did you hear that Obama and Rev. Wright were popping champagne last night?
PAT CASSIDY (co-host): Yeah? Where was this at?
MULLER: Well, they were excited over the shooting at the Holocaust Museum.
CASSIDY:Oh, please.
MULLER: No, Pat. I am convinced that this president hates Jews and he hates Israel. And look, he spent 20 years sitting in a pew –
CASSIDY:Rev. Wright does, I think so.
MULLER: He spent 20 — look guys, he spent — and I know the criminal, liberal, state-controlled media doesn’t report it, but Obama sat in our city folks — before I knew the name Obama, I knew Rev. Wright. I’m a churchgoing guy. And I knew what a racist anti-Semite this guy was. What church — I ask you people — what church celebrates Louie Farrakhan that isn’t — what Christian church would celebrate this guy?
So now here’s Rev. Wright: “Them Jews won’t let Obama talk to me.”
[PLAYS AUDIO CLIP OF WRIGHT COMMENT]
MULLER: Okay? Obama sat there with this Jew-hater for 20 years. Obama, let’s remember this, dedicated his book to him. Named his book after one of Rev. Wright’s sermons.
CASSIDY: The “audacity of hope” is from a Rev. Wright sermon.
MULLER: Okay? And then when anyone question this anti-Semite, race-baiting hater, oh they’re charged with being a Republican attack machine. Okay? This guy is no man of God. He is evil. And when you see the way Obama is kissing Muslim butt and selling out Israel, you realize where it all came from: the radical wife, okay? The radical, Black Panther wife and Rev. Wright the anti-Semite.
So here we go. Here we go again. World War II. Here we go.
CASSIDY: Well, there’s no question that Rev. Wright is a racist. And he certainly appears to be anti-Semitic, certainly his comments last night — and he’s made a million of them.
MULLER: “Those Jews” aren’t going to let me talk.
CASSIDY: Exactly. And that was pretty clear. It’s hard to hear the sound-bite, but you could definitely hear it.
MULLER: Yeah, well, “them Jews won’t let me talk to Obama.” Who’s he talking about? Rahm Emanuel?
CASSIDY: That’s exactly right.
MULLER: Yeah, yeah, so I’m betting these two, these two anti-Semites — yes, your president; you voted for him, mouth-breathers — your president and Rev. Wright — two great Chicagoans, two great race — hey, race-baiting is a way of life here in Chicago — two great race-baiters. I bet they were popping champagne over the shooting at the Holocaust Museum.
CASSIDY: I doubt that. That’s ridiculous to say that. No question.
MULLER: Really?
CASSIDY: Yeah. They’re celebrating a shooting at the Holocaust Museum?
MULLER: Yeah. Yeah.
