Limbaugh: Obama should have invited “genuine conservatives” to dinner
posted at 4:34 pm on January 23, 2009 by Allahpundit
Part two of his interview with Hannity; the fun starts halfway through the first clip of, if you prefer, three-quarters of the way down here. I’m amused that Hannity names David Brooks as an example of a right-wing antagonist on a day when Brooks, more than anyone else who was at that dinner, is holding The One’s feet to the fire about what a piece of shinola the stimulus bill is. The other attendees, like Noonan, are too consumed with the glory of the inauguration. Even Krauthammer, a perpetual favorite of Hot Air commenters, is starting to draw grumbles.
Limbaugh’s right, of course, that Obama was there to coopt his critics, not to be persuaded, but as I said earlier, that’s par for the course for The One. It’s the gesture of listening to the other side that he’s after, not absorbing or acting on any of their ideas. I wonder if he reminded them over dessert that he won. Exit question: Which would you prefer, Obama-brand “bipartisanship” or straight-up, James-Clyburn-style “you’ll take it and like it” honesty?
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Give me Clyburn. Obama’s rhetoric will fool enough stupid people to make it dangerous.
BadgerHawk on January 23, 2009 at 4:37 PM
how could he keep his food down sitting across from a turd like Limbaugh?
Noneya on January 23, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Rush….right on target again.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 23, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Rush…grab a salad…we need you around for a long time!
joepub on January 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Just look at it as practice for when he talks to Ahmadinejad.
p.s. stay classy
E9RET on January 23, 2009 at 4:41 PM
You watch these clips and it leaves you with no doubt who is the master and who is the grasshopper in this relationship.
Sugar Land on January 23, 2009 at 4:42 PM
+1
Of course Rush is right about Obama’s motive — that’s academic. So why on earth would any conservative want to have dinner with Obama? What’s to be gained? And why risk the potential “coopted” label?
Splashman on January 23, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Definitely…………..
………. because only after three days, we can see what an epic failure Mr. Obama and the Democrats are going to be.
Let them take all the glory………
Seven Percent Solution on January 23, 2009 at 4:44 PM
One COULD say Hannity has a strong stomach from sitting across from Colmes all these years.
But personal attacks are the sign of an inferior intellect, so I’ll refrain ;-)
hawksruleva on January 23, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Rush makes more money in a day than you will ever make selling it on the corner, noneya.
HornetSting on January 23, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Hussein is no good outside his safety bubble. He can’t handle being around people who don’t bow before him. He can breath when ask direct questions. He can’t conversate (ebonics) with others about specific issues.
He’d fail around true conservatives.
madmonkphotog on January 23, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Agreed that desperate social-climber like Noonan having been in attendance reduced any seriousness the meeting may have had.
viking01 on January 23, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Not to mention that an empty suit like Obambi having been in attendance reduced any seriousness the meeting may have had.
viking01 on January 23, 2009 at 4:48 PM
The latter.
Esthier on January 23, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Mad, I have a question.
Did you mean to say “Being Gay IS Un-American or Being Gay IN Un-American. And I don’t apologize for that.” on the Prop 8 Blog?
You’ve got a lot of people freaking out over there.
HornetSting on January 23, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Noneya is an obamanite who’s infiltrated Hot Air. Pay no attention to this peasant. It’s lint. It’s roach feces. It’s not worth paying attention to.
madmonkphotog on January 23, 2009 at 4:50 PM
First, this interview took place before Mr. Brooks saw the light. (Still bet he voted for Mr. Obama) and as to the exit question, honesty is always best. In Mr. Obama’s case it will come back to bite him in the butt because he needs to be re-elected.
Cindy Munford on January 23, 2009 at 4:50 PM
No argument here.
HornetSting on January 23, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Obama would have been terrified of Rush. Rush would have sliced and diced Obama’s blatherings like a Veg-o-matic, and had all the other people there laughing themselves sick at Obama’s, “Uh..uh…uh.”
Wethal on January 23, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Don’t expect anything else.
Esthier on January 23, 2009 at 4:55 PM
There would have been a different ‘sensation’ down the leg for barry.
HornetSting on January 23, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Rush is probably just pissed that he wasn’t invited.
jim m on January 23, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Umm…didn’t Rush shill for John McCain during the last election? Yea…thought so. Sorry but I’m no longer listening…
sabbott on January 23, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Agreed that Brooks is bound to have voted for Obambi. So did David Gergen. Neither is genuinely a Republican they only play one on TV to make Mark Shields and Jim Lehrer’s party-line ramblings less continuous.
viking01 on January 23, 2009 at 4:57 PM
how could he keep his food down sitting across from a turd like Limbaugh?
Noneya on January 23, 2009 at 4:37 PM
The same way we manage it with you being here.
Bishop on January 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM
You’ve got to be kidding, AP. Brooks has had Obama’s schwanz in his mouth all since last summer, and cannot possibly be considered conservative in any way, shape or form.
His hilarious opinion on the suicidal orgy of socialist spending that is Obama’s “stimulus” package is the most conservative thing he’s said in years.
Jaibones on January 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Now you’re just being silly.
Jaibones on January 23, 2009 at 5:00 PM
This whole thing is childish.
budorob on January 23, 2009 at 5:01 PM
King Hussein will never meet with any real conservatives. Only milksops like Brooks and lushes like Noonan need ask for an invitation.
Percy_Peabody on January 23, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Rush shill for McVain? LOL. As if….
Rush merely advocated voting for McCain (He does love Palin!), because the alternative was so much worse.
Jenfidel on January 23, 2009 at 5:02 PM
This needed to be said. Listen up you squirmy Republicans.
faraway on January 23, 2009 at 5:02 PM
I’m pretty sure no. I have no idea why you think he did. Clarify please?
Esthier on January 23, 2009 at 5:03 PM
sabbott on January 23, 2009 at 4:56 PMWhen the only other choice was Mr. Obama.
Cindy Munford on January 23, 2009 at 5:06 PM
If it were to happen, then what kind of food would be served?
The real reason why Rush wasn’t invited?
Because those that were invited seemed to have drank the Koolaid.
Kini on January 23, 2009 at 5:06 PM
I listen to Rush every day and have done so for 17 years–McCain makes Rush sick, trust me.
I would be interested in hearing the answer to your question to sabbott, however…I’m sure it’s something along the lines of “Rush is a Republican shill.”
Jenfidel on January 23, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Clyburn is the partisan hack who said in 2007 that good news from Iraq “would be a real big problem for us”. It didn´t hurt him or his loathsome party one bit. The media made sure most people never heard it.
el gordo on January 23, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Obomber almost melted when Joe the Plumber, totally out of the blue, asked – gasp – a question!
If it were a real give-and-take kind of dinner, and if Rush were there, no contest.
J.J. Sefton on January 23, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Man, is he puttin’ on the pounds – OR WHAT!?
Competing with The Big O – no, not Obama – Oprah!
Quit reading Noonan – an idol of mine since the Reagan days – when she dumped on Palin.
The only one I’m disappointed with about that meeting (already disregarded the rest as weak) is Krauthammerslammer.
Intellectual idiots, all.
klickink.wordpress.com on January 23, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Also notice that those that were invited are Beltway conservatives (term conservative used here is loosely)
These are also the ones that thought Palin was a bad choice.
They are also the ones that endorsed McVain.
Kini on January 23, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Noonan is acting very strangely around the One. Next thing you know, Michelle O. will ban her to a remote West Indies island. Just sayin’,….
a capella on January 23, 2009 at 5:11 PM
I prefer James Clyburn approach as opposed to the current bastard coated bastard with bastard filling approach.
I’d rather people be able to see his actions for what they are yet I understand that the whole purpose of this is to headfake people into believing something is happening that is not.
3 Card Monte is Obama’s game here.
theguardianii on January 23, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Sounds like somebody’s jealous they got left out…
e-pirate on January 23, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Too bad Mark Levin couldn’t have gotten into the meeting with Ogabe somehow, now THAT I would love to see.
Bishop on January 23, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Rush knows that no liberal worth his salt would ever want to have dinner with him. The fact that he rose to the position he has by his own damned bootstraps (and zero college degree, let alone Ivy League) drives them nuts. That wasn’t supposed to happen in today’s society.
Thus, his point.
Speak for yourself. Rush will probably have you for dinner! He’s not afraid of people like you.
And neither are any of us here.
newton on January 23, 2009 at 5:17 PM
What Rush really points up is that the Republican party as it stands now is lost and clueless.
8 years of Bush and that’s not surprising. The government balooned and with it the deficit, civil liberties took a hit, neo-con foreign policy hasn’t exactly been a total success.
What does the party stand for now?
Ares on January 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM
I’m more amused that David Brooks NOW thinks of holding Obama’s feet to the fire. Back in October, Brooks was part of the chanting Obamaton crowd. Talk about unstable. Oh, I forgot, there was that dreadful plebeian Palin to drive Brooks into the arms of The One.
ddrintn on January 23, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Rush may not have been invited but he has Obama´s number.
el gordo on January 23, 2009 at 5:22 PM
The O king isn’t likely to invite anyone into his presence that won’t necessarily respect his O ness, the king may be forced to remind them..he wOn.
Speakup on January 23, 2009 at 5:23 PM
There’s this management model used by corporations when they are going thru an organizational change. You divide the employees into 3 groups.
Group 1 – those that will adapt and require no efforts by management to move to the new structure.
Group 2 – those with the potential to be convinced to move to the new structure if you spend enough time demonstrating to them why they should. Court them.
Group 3 – those that will never move to the new structure and are a waste of time. Ignore them.
We all know who is already in Group 1.
The dinner group evidently has been identified as the movers and shakers of Group 2.
Rush, et al are in Group 3.
Texas Gal on January 23, 2009 at 5:23 PM
And those people in Group 3 are the ones corporations terminate, Texas Gal.
jim m on January 23, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Well dipstick, ask the people that sit across from you at the dinner table how they do it.
rplat on January 23, 2009 at 5:26 PM
I call BS unless you are talking about failures.
Every organisation has Group 3s they cannot ignore and the successful ones convert them…
Still, nice and pithy theory.
Ares on January 23, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Is that a fat joke?
Esthier on January 23, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Nope. But make of it what you may… I don’t think he suffers fools like that one lightly.
newton on January 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Good grief. Rush could barely tolerate McCain. Rush was in the same horrible position as the rest of us.
Oink on January 23, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Chris Muir calls them “Obots.”
I like it – fewer syllables – and more descriptive.
BD57 on January 23, 2009 at 5:33 PM
I just though it was funny.
Esthier on January 23, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Right on! Right on! Right on! I love you, Rush Limbaugh for being an honest broker of opinion.
onlineanalyst on January 23, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Futility is indignant.
Schadenfreude on January 23, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Well, he didn’t pound on McCain like, well, like I would have. Rush is a classy guy and got behind the parties nominee. I admire his professionalism but I disagree with him vehemently. If I had Limbaugh’s show, McCain would throw pens every time he heard my name.
Dude, do you even care how stupid you sound saying stupid cr*p like this? Yeah, Rush is jealous that he didn’t get invited to GOP brownose fest 2009. Try listening to what he said about it before you make some stupid comment. Ignorant nosepicker.
austinnelly on January 23, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Umm…didn’t Rush shill for John McCain during the last election? Yea…thought so. Sorry but I’m no longer listening…
sabbott on January 23, 2009 at 4:56 PM
You obviously weren’t listening then, dumbass.
TexasJew on January 23, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Starting? No, he wore out his welcome when he joined the the pile on against Palin. He’s another Canadian carpetbagger.
Blake on January 23, 2009 at 5:39 PM
I don’t know what civil liberties you’re talking about, but don’t put the blame on Bush alone.
Conservatives are supposed to be free thinkers. The blame goes to both parties equally.
Kini on January 23, 2009 at 5:40 PM
And Brooks is also a canadian carpetbagger, as is Frum.
So, Allahpundit! Where were you born?
Queens, NY? Or, Queens, Ontario???? Fess, up!
Blake on January 23, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Besides, on that evening, Rush was having dinner with President Bush.
Remember that Jason Lewis took over the show that day and everyone thought Rush might had been on Hussein’s guest list.
Kini on January 23, 2009 at 5:43 PM
I demand to see Allahpundit’s original birth certificate – the one with the little inky footprints.
Blake on January 23, 2009 at 5:55 PM
That’s right. They find a way to terminate them. Lay them off, reassign to a different position, etc. Some will move on their own to Group 2 because they won’t like being out of the circle. The really stubborn ones will dig in and work against the organization.
That’s pretty similar to what I see Team Obama doing with those on the Right. He’s peeling them off. Once he can get them isolated into a smaller group they won’t be a throne.
Actually it’s very effective. I’ve seen it used several times. I worked in a municipal government that also changed administration every 4-8 years and this was the model.
Texas Gal on January 23, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Bishop + 10
Noneya, now that Obama will pay for it, please ask ur mom to get a free really late-term abortion.
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on January 23, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Rush says the things that moderate conservative bloggers WON’T say.
nottakingsides on January 23, 2009 at 5:58 PM
This is another example of Rush being a gigantic tool. There are many examples of this.
crr6 on January 23, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Nope. But make of it what you may… I don’t think he suffers fools like that one lightly.
newton on January 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Too bad, nothing makes my day like a good fat joke.
Bishop on January 23, 2009 at 6:02 PM
I’ve never worked for the state so can’t comment on that but most every company undergoing significant change I’ve worked for found itself with type 3′s they could not simply dispose of.
Theory says that should never happen – reality is that it does.
Ares on January 23, 2009 at 6:03 PM
OK, I’ll bite.
Name some examples.
Kini on January 23, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Perhaps he should miss a meal or two.
Poor hungry rush.
getalife on January 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Agreed.
There are those who are in the know.
Those who think they know.
And those without a clue.
That’s a standard capitalist business model.
Kini on January 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Well two off the top of my head are when he mocked Michael J. Fox’s symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, and his cutting analysis which forced him to resign from Sunday NFL Countdown. The guy is just an unbelievably massive tool, any way you look at it.
crr6 on January 23, 2009 at 6:08 PM
$400 million says Rush ain’t no tool.
Bishop on January 23, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Noneya on January 23, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Oh just shut up and be grateful Allah hasn’t banned you yet like your buds at the DU would to any of us.
Ryan Gandy on January 23, 2009 at 6:12 PM
No, he didn’t. I was listening to that show when he was making a point on how liberals drag out someone like Michael J. Fox to put a sympathetic spin on getting legislation passed.
If you criticize the legislation, then you’re criticizing Michael J. Fox. That was the point. You obviously did not listen to that show, or didn’t understand the point Rush was explaining.
Kini on January 23, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Then don’t listen. See how easy that is? I use it for MSNBC all the time.
Cindy Munford on January 23, 2009 at 6:14 PM
That point probably could have been made without mocking the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
crr6 on January 23, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Your starter for 10 – extraordinary rendition.
Ares on January 23, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Rush rules. Needs to cut back on the food, though. If I had $400 million I’d probably eat well too. :-)
therightwinger on January 23, 2009 at 6:17 PM
More evidence that you either do not listen, or choose not to listen to what Rush was saying.
He said that McNab was over-rated as a quarterback. Which was, and still is true. The rest of the arm chair liberal quarterbacks had a field day over that statement stopping just short of calling Rush a bigot. They knew Rush would speak his mind and they were waiting for any reason to get rid of him.
Kini on January 23, 2009 at 6:20 PM
You obviously heard someone tell you Rush did.
So you’ll believe anything you’re told.
If you didn’t listen to the show, you would know Rush never mocked Fox.
Kini on January 23, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Too bad for any terrorist, or don’tcha think.
That, by the way, is not a civil liberty.
Kini on January 23, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Didn’t Obama mention Rush today? I believe I heard that on Special Report…
therightwinger on January 23, 2009 at 6:25 PM
It’s radio. A lot of people are demonstrative when they speak. Yes I realize that people saw it, but it was not intentionally mocking.
Cindy Munford on January 23, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Name 6 and remember you said many. Also I reject your post that this is an example of Rush being a tool so don’t count it.
Oldnuke on January 23, 2009 at 6:32 PM
I’ll mock Michael J Fox for refusing to speak for any cause until he became a ‘victim’.
- The Cat
MirCat on January 23, 2009 at 6:34 PM
No it doesn’t. There is no such thing as an irreplaceable employee. Just doesn’t exist. There may be the perception by someone of irreplaceability but in truth it just isn’t true. I’m a firm believer in bucket theory. I’ve seen it work many many times.
If there is truly someone in any organization who is irreplaceable then two additional things are true. 1.That organization is badly mismanaged and 2.You are not paying that individual enough.
Oldnuke on January 23, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Exactly.
The point Rush was making was that Liberals parade out Victims when trying to pass legislation.
If that doesn’t work, then it’s the courts.
Kini on January 23, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Rush is a tool for:
1. Being a Conservative
2. Being Rich
3. Being Successful
4. Being a Celebrity
5. Going through Rehab and Not Relapsing
6. Being Confident
7. Being Generous
8. Making Harry Reid look like a Fool during ‘LetterGate’
9. Etc Etc
MirCat on January 23, 2009 at 6:38 PM
That’s part of it, but the larger part was that Rush pointed out how Fox admitted in his own book that he purposely didn’t take his meds before appearing in front of a Senate committee on Parkinsons so that his symptoms would be more pronounced.
Thus, Rush did not entirely trust Fox as a spokesperson for embryonic stem cell research.
Buy Danish on January 23, 2009 at 6:39 PM
NO Rush did NOT shill for McCain, he really only came onboard when he picked Palin as VP. YOU would know that if you listened to him, obviously you don’t.
Maybe you picked that up on DailyKos.
reshas1 on January 23, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Also, Fox admitted that he purposely didn’t take his medication so that his symptoms where more stark. I am not suggesting that he shouldn’t had done that, he was making a legitimate point about what he suffers. But he also expected millions of people to forgo their beliefs in human embryo destruction to cure himself and others with Parkinson. It is just as legitimate for Rush to point it out.
Cindy Munford on January 23, 2009 at 6:40 PM
As if the government gets it right every time…
What’s your rationale here? If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear?
Ares on January 23, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Great point.
That was the whole reason why Rush made his comments.
The motive, by Fox, was suspicious, since he admitted enhancing his condition for the cameras.
Deploy the victim factor.
Kini on January 23, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Most organisations are not managed perfectly within a perfect world.
You can manage out type your 3s, but the original statement was bald and naieve implying you can just sideline all of them.
I can’t think of one organisation I’ve seen from the inside that doesn’t have some people who represent a potential single point of failure.
Been following Apple’s stock price lately since Steve Jobs announced his sabbatical?
Great theory, but doesn’t hold up in reality.
Ares on January 23, 2009 at 6:48 PM
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