The event is limited to company employees, invited guests and the media.’ And then they’ve got all the quotes from various Thorngate employees that are swooning, (doing impression) ‘Ah, ah, ah, it’s so great, ah, he reminds me of JFK, ah, ah, ah.’ But it’s not open to the public. This is from the Southeast Missourian today, the local paper: ”Obama Visit Not Open to Public’ - Obama, D-Ill., will take part in an economic town-hall meeting today at Thorngate Ltd., the clothing manufacturer that has had a plant on Independence Street in Cape Girardeau for years. Wow, did you catch that? Apparently, Obama is driving the tour bus, taking people on the 12-stop Rush Limbaugh tour. (playing of Barack Obama Cape Girardeau spoof) Our microphones - I mean, face it, if I own a town, it’s Cape Girardeau. RUSH: Yeah, it’s getting pretty interesting out there, says Mary Ann Ahern. Kind of picking a fight, perhaps, with Rush? I don’t know, we’ll see. Some do believe that he is trying to change the storyline on a night he won’t be doing so well in West Virginia by traveling to Cape Girardeau, the hometown of radio show host Rush Limbaugh. In fact, ladies and gentlemen, the Drive-By Media discussing this, last night WMAQ-TV Chicago, a portion of Mary Ann Ahern’s report about Obama’s trip to my town.ĪHERN: As the West Virginia totals come in, Senator Obama is traveling to that all-important swing state for the November contest, Missouri. But yet this is like anything else, it’s just politics, it’s nothing more than just politics. Now, of course, the great mischaracterization here is that Obama is a man of the people. He’s going to go in there, closed to the public, meeting with union people. He’s going to go there to learn the strife that these people face. I don’t know if it’s a union shop or not, but if it is, and it’s really not that big a deal because it’s not a surprise that a Democrat would go to a union shop to hold a meeting on the economy. What I’m told is that he’s going to Thorngate because it’s a union shop. Now, it does, it looks exactly like America. Obama, ladies and gentlemen, is meeting at this Thorngate place. The city of Cape Girardeau is 35,000, the county is around 76 or 72,000. I don’t know if this is the city or if this is the county. Here’s the makeup of Cape Girardeau, by the way, the racial makeup.Ĭape Girardeau, white, non-Hispanic is 86.7%, blacks are 9.3%, mixed race is 1.4%, 1.1% Hispanic, and 0.9% American Indian make up the population. I did, as a matter of fact, now that I think about it. There aren’t so many poor people in Cape Girardeau anymore, but - (interruption) Did I know some poor people? I’m being asked if I knew poor people in Cape Girardeau. Yeah, they had poor people in Cape Girardeau. I don’t know what they manufacture now, but Thorngate used to manufacture the men’s clothing line Hart, Schaffner & Marx, which at the time I was growing up is what Johnny Carson wore on The Tonight Show, and they always had their outlet days, their seconds where the stuff that had flaws you could go buy and, you know, a number of poor people in Cape Girardeau would go by there on outlet day and stock up on the stuff. RUSH: Barack Obama, we have learned, is meeting in a closed session today at a clothing manufacturing plant in Cape Girardeau called Thorngate Ltd.
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