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"Gunny" Bob to KOA caller concerned about critics who "don't even know" Obama: "I didn't know Hitler. I didn't know Stalin."

On his April 30 Newsradio 850 KOA program, "Gunny" Bob Newman responded to a caller's complaint about people who say of Sen. Barack Obama "that he doesn't have a good heart when you don't even know the guy and are relying on mass media to paint a picture of him," by stating, "Well, you know, I didn't know Hitler. I didn't know Stalin." Newman added, "Not that Obama is Stalinesque, not that Obama is Hitleresque, but we didn't know those two either."

From the April 30 broadcast of Newsradio 850 KOA's The Gunny Bob Show:

CALLER: As far as Barack Obama goes --

NEWMAN: Mmm-hmm.

CALLER: -- and as far as that crazy pastor that he has, I think that you should just judge the guy on his moral character and, you know, people are gonna say stuff. As far as his policies and being character-driven and all that other kind of stuff, I think that he does have character, but I think that he's --

NEWMAN: Is it good character or bad character?

CALLER: I think that he has good intentions; I think he has a good heart. And I think for people to say that he doesn't have a good heart when you don't even know the guy and are relying on mass media to paint a picture of him --

NEWMAN: Well, you know, I didn't know Hitler. I didn't know Stalin, you know, to take a couple of dramatic figures from history. Not that Obama is Stalinesque, not that Obama is Hitleresque, but we didn't know those two either.

—C.H.

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