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Rush Limbaugh: Hutch Writes a Hot Column

Partial transcript:

RUSH: Well, look who got through. Our good friend the Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson from Seattle, former player, National Football League and now a man of the cloth in Seattle. Hutch, great to have you here. What's up, buddy?

HUTCH: How you doing, my man?

RUSH: Pretty good.

HUTCH: Are you okay?

RUSH: Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm fine.

HUTCH: Hey, that was great from the Senator from Iowa. I just want to congratulate you. He laid it out on Goodell.

RUSH: Steve King, I was stunned when I saw that. It was a fabulous job. I was very moved by it.

HUTCH: I tell you that's the kind of defense that needs to be done about what's going on in America. And, Rush, you know, I sent you an article that I was asked to write. And I just laid it out on the truth, and it's too much to talk about on the air, but I have sent it out to places like the American Thinker, sent it out to American Spectator, Washington Post, but it seems it needs to be said, it needs to be said why they are attacking you. I'm not going to let it go. I'm going to get to the bottom of this. They have attacked my friend and brother. There's things that need to be said to African-Americans that they need to hear, that they don't want to hear. That's in the article. And there's things that need to be said to America about why the white male is being attacked, and that's coming from an African-American. And I'm going to get this out because it needs to be said.

RUSH: He [Hutch] sent me the column that he wrote. He was asked by -- I won't mention the publication -- he was asked to submit it. When they got it, it was too hot, it was too hot, it was too hot. So he's shopping it to other places. Did you say the American Thinker just now? Did you send it to them?

HUTCH: Yes, I sent to American Thinker --

RUSH: You sent to the Washington Post -- all they'll have to do is read it Hutch and they'll be blown away. I don't think they'll ever, ever publish it, but if it's too hot for anybody, we'll put it on my website.
RUSH: Absolutely. We'll give them a chance to try it, bro. I just want you to know, I'm not dropping this.

RUSH: I appreciate it. I love you.

HUTCH: Love you, bro.

Hot Topic of the Day: Rushing to Trouble

Rushing To Trouble - by Kurt Schlichter

Well, it was America. Apparently, that’s changed in the last few days because now it appears that Rush cannot be allowed to spend his own money as he wants to because his political views are unsatisfactory. He’s conservative, and therefore the rights, privileges and immunities or any other American citizen no longer appear apply to him. Just ask Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who urged the NFL not to allow Rush’s bid to buy some team (The Rams? The Raiders? The Yankees? I really don’t follow this stuff).

Let me get this straight, because this is more disturbing than the thought of having to attend a hockey doubleheader: An American political leader is demanding that a private business not do business with an American citizen because she does not approve of his politics.

Am I the only one who thinks this is kind of a problem? In fact, isn’t this kind of an assault on the very foundation of our political system?

Oh, well, it’s really because of his inflammatory rhetoric, not his politics – as if that was a distinction with a difference. You can be conservative, I guess – you just can’t talk about it. I sure wish someone had told me that my First Amendment rights came with an asterisk before I twice deployed with the Army to defend them.

What’s particularly interesting is how the words Rush has actually uttered turn out not to be so inflammatory at all. And the quotes floating around that he did not actually utter seem so transparently ridiculous – nonsense about slavery nostalgia and idiocy regarding giving James Earl Ray a medal – that it’s hard to believe that anyone would credit them unless they were either utterly unconcerned with the truth or the mainstream media. Oh, wait – that’s redundant.

Read it all here.

Bonus Rush vid via HotAir - running this story. (Hat tip: lincolntf) Rush asks, "Where's the fact check?" Good question, Rush. Indeed.

UPDATE: Link to ESPN story here. Thanks to PBJ.

UPDATE: Rush dropped like a Brett Favre pass. (Hat tip: Nana)