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Opinions/Editorials Title: Sneak Peek: Stanley Kurtz's New Book Examines Obama's War on Suburbia Sneak Peek: Stanley Kurtz's New Book Examines Obama's War on Suburbia July 26, 2012 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I got a note from Stanley Kurtz today. Stanley Kurtz has been one of the foremost researchers of "Barack Hussein Obama! Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!" and his radical ties throughout his whole life. He's got a new book coming out. The title of the book escapes me. More detail on it in the future, but let me just tell you basically what the premise is. The premise is that Obama and his band of radicals in the government despise suburbia. They blame suburbia and suburbanites for what's happening in place like Detroit, for example, and other big cities that are in the midst of this decay. It is because people have moved out, and they have moved out to places where they can hang out together and be amongst people like them. (Do you see where this is going?) According to Mr. Kurtz, one of the fundamental aspects of dealing with Obama, one of the things to do in a campaign against Obama that could be very successful... It's all tied in, by the way, to the Thomas B. Edsall stuff that we pointed out last November where they've abandoned white working-class voters. Obama wants nothing to do with them. Now they're running ads aimed at those people trying to dispirit them and depress them and to tell 'em that Romney hates them and Romney's not gonna care. They want to isolate them and make 'em think that they have no representation and nobody's looking out for 'em. They want to just try to depress 'em, suppress their vote, dispirit them to the point that they don't show up. The bitter clingers, suburbanites. Obama's never gonna use this terminology. He's never gonna say that he's angry at the suburbanites. He's going to say it in such a way that he'll convey that impression to the people who he wants to understand it. And I think that there's something to it. I'm just giving you the real sketch view. Kurtz has written a whole book about this that comes out soon. I think it's next week. More on it later. I'll print the story out and fill you in on some of the gaps here. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Stanley Kurtz's book is Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities. And Kurtz is a powerful, influential member of the media. Stanley sent me a note about his book, and he says the core revelations of his book focus on the fact that (and I'd like to be interested in your thoughts on this, folks) although no one knows it, "Obama is closely working from the White House with some of the original Alinskyite community organizers who first trained him in Chicago and other places." He is personally working with these Alinskyites. "It's a very ambitious plan to transform America by undercutting America's suburbs in order to redistribute suburban money back to the cities." Now, many people think that in the upcoming election, suburbs are the key. And I've seen some pollsters/consultants who are saying that the suburbs are the key swing constituency of this election. And Kurtz claims that his book will illustrate it. "Almost nobody realizes it, but Obama has had a lifelong hostility to the suburbs. His community-organizing mentors hated suburbs. "They blame the suburbs for the problems of the cities. They believe that suburbanites were just greedy racists who didn't want to share their tax money with the urban poor." Now, again, folks, forget the intellectual aspect of this, whether it's right or wrong. We're talking about the way Obama was mentored. And the point is, if Obama was raised and trained by a bunch of Alinskyites who want explain the evils-of-America -- the inequities, the unfairness -- by saying, "Look, Barack! "What happened was all these rich, white people fled the cities and they went out to suburbia. They're a bunch of racists and they don't like to hang around with people who live in the city. They don't like people like us, Barack!" Imagine how this happened. He's young, he's impressionable, and this is what he's being told. And these suburbs, that's where the bitter clingers are! That's suburbanites and people in rural areas. But you don't have bitter clingers in the inner city. All these people have left the cities. They've taken their wealth, they've taken their businesses, they've taken their lives, and they've gotten away from what they don't like in the cities and they've left the cities in an absolute mess. Although it's not mentioned here in the little blurb, Detroit might be an example of this. And clearly there are other examples of big cities around the country where the inner city is decaying like crazy. And Obama has been led to believe and has been taught that, basically because of racism, white people have left the cities for suburbia. So Obama is hell-bent on penalizing them, and that's what his campaign is all about. They believe the suburbanites are just a bunch of greedy racists. They didn't want to share their money, their tax money with the urban poor. This is what Kurtz's book is about. He claims to establish all of this as fact. Obama adopted their worldview and supported this movement. Many of the leaders of this anti-suburban movement supported by Obama for years are now advising the regime on redistributive anti-suburban policies that few people know anything about. The bottom line, Kurtz believes that if the election is framed this way, that if enough people begin to look at this election through the prism of Obama and the radical left despising suburbia, that it will have a profound impact on the votes of people in suburbia. I take you back to the belief on the part of many that this election features suburbs as the key swing constituency of the election. In the swing states, for example, where are the swing votes? And the theory is, the swing votes in the swing states are in suburbia. And if the suburban voters are made aware that they are the targets of this redistributive policy of the, "You didn't build that. You didn't do that on your own," that when Obama says things like that, he has suburbanites on the mind, he has people who fled the cities. They are a problem. They have committed an act for which they need to pay. The cities are in trouble because of racism. White people didn't want to live among blacks in the inner city and fled. All the way back to the fifties when the suburbs began to pop up. This is not something new. This has been an Alinskyite belief for years. Now, you couple this with the fact, folks, the left, if you listen carefully, it isn't hard to believe the left has always had it in for the suburbs. The left believes that the suburbs is everything that's wrong with America. That's where all the cars are. That's where all the SUVs are. That's where all the malls are. You can't have mass transit in the suburbs. It's too spread out. You can't control everything. Cell phones, all this stuff, it's all part of suburbia. Environmentalists hate the suburbs because that's where all the environmental destruction takes place. That's where all the driving takes place. It's where all the gas stations are. It's where all the reasons people spend their money happen to be. To buttress what Kurtz is saying, there is a report just out from the Brookings Institute. Its title, "Demographic Reversal: Cities Thrive, Suburbs Sputter -- Last year, for the first time in more than nine decades the major cities of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas grew faster than their combined suburbs. At least temporarily, this puts the brakes on a longstanding staple of American life -- the pervasive suburbanization of its population --which began with widespread automobile use in the 1920s to the present day when more than half the US population lives in the suburbs. This reversal is identified in an analysis of newly released Census Bureau data for 2010-2011 and can be attributed to a number of forces." So Kurtz's book is going to make the case that the real Obama campaign, unstated, is an attack on suburban flight, suburban life and the people who are there. They are the real problem. They are these business owners. They are self-made. They are the people who have built factories. They are the people that use the roads and bridges and haven't paid anybody for it. They are the thieves. They are selfish, and they abandon people because of what they look like. The suburbs are the repository of evil. Well, not evil. The suburbs, that's where the real problem people in this country live, the people with whom we have to get even. And, by the way, the Brookings Institution, they call this move back to the cities the New American Dream. A bunch of libs at Brookings. So Kurtz could well be on to something here. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Well, here is a potential bottom line. Let's say that the upcoming campaign suggestion for Romney... well, not Romney. He's not going about it this way anyway. Instead of appealing to undecided voters on ideological grounds, as I have always thought would be a winning thing to do, and I still do, there may yet still be some people that don't want to look at Obama or Romney ideologically. They just don't want to go there. They're not that political. But they live in suburbia, so you go to them and say, "This guy, Barack Obama, is upset with you. He doesn't like the suburbs." If a campaign can be based around the fact, is Obama's real purpose to punish suburbanites, is that who he's talking about when he says, "You didn't build that. You didn't make that happen." Given the premise that the election in these swing states, the swing constituency is suburbanites, let them know that they are the target of Obama's destructive policies simply because of where they live. Not because they're Democrats, not because they're Republicans, not because they're liberals or conservatives or whatever, it's he doesn't like suburbs. The president of the United States has a problem with people who've left the cities. He thinks they're racist. He thinks they've run out on problems. He thinks they've exacerbated problems. They've taken their tax revenue and they've taken their wealth and they moved out and the cities are decaying. It isn't fair and he wants the money back. Interesting premise. We shall see. The rest of the story.... http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/07/26/sneak_peek_stanley_kurtz_s_new_book_examines_obama_s_war_on_suburbia
Poster Comment: So it's "OUR" fault that places like Detroit are the schittholes they are because we left???? ROTFLMAO..... So how does it feel to be a racist white surburbanite??? (pretty good actually).... :)
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#1. To: CZ82 (#0)
The problem with this analysis is that single women in suburbia are big Obama supporters.
#2. To: jwpegler (#1)
So you're saying they don't mind being the subject of the Lefts ire just as long as the Welfare checks keep coming??
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