Obama to GOP leaders: Stop listening to Rush Limbaugh; Update: Rush responds
posted at 1:40 pm on January 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.
“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.
One White House official confirmed the comment but said he was simply trying to make a larger point about bipartisan efforts.
Smart points in response from Tom Maguire, especially number three. If, contra his campaign rhetoric, The One really does plan on bringing back Fairness, he just made his task of selling it to the public as a nonpartisan measure not aimed squarely at conservative talk radio a lot harder. Exit question: What’s his game here? Obama’s a shrewd guy; he must have known a comment like that would leak and that Limbaugh would have a field day with it. Maybe he’s trying to buy himself cover with the left by antagonizing Rush into a blood feud? Progressives will be less likely to grumble about his tack to the center if their archenemy is on the air every day accusing him of being the Marxist antichrist. Or, doubly Machiavellian, maybe he’s trying to bolster Rush’s influence so that he’ll drag the GOP back to the right, leaving the center to Obama and the Dems. Maybe? All theories welcome! The more sinister, the better.
Update: Limbaugh fires back, via Byron York:
To make the argument about me instead of his plan makes sense from his perspective. Obama’s plan would buy votes for the Democrat Party, in the same way FDR’s New Deal established majority power for 50 years of Democrat rule, and it would also simultaneously seriously damage any hope of future tax cuts. It would allow a majority of American voters to guarantee no taxes for themselves going forward. It would burden the private sector and put the public sector in permanent and firm control of the economy. Put simply, I believe his stimulus is aimed at re-establishing “eternal” power for the Democrat Party rather than stimulating the economy because anyone with a brain knows this is NOT how you stimulate the economy. If I can be made to serve as a distraction, then there is that much less time debating the merits of this TRILLION dollar debacle.
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I wonder how shrewd Nancy Reagan thinks he is.
It’s simple: He’s a jerk.
Jim Treacher on January 24, 2009 at 3:13 PM
As for MediaHacks premise that more college-dwellers identify as liberal, well what do you expect? A semi-insular world made up of responsibilities no greater than making sure you get to class on time?
Things will change when these “liberals” hit the streets to try for their first job and discover that “Hey, we would like to hire you, but we can’t afford it/you’re not the right color/right gender/right age, etc.
Paying your own bills has a way of killing liberalism.
Bishop on January 24, 2009 at 3:13 PM
You know Obambi 56 million people voted against you! And that was without the help of ACORN and corrupt SOSs okay? So get over your bad self Mo’ F’er…
(have to use street language the thug can understand)
CCRWM on January 24, 2009 at 3:14 PM
And Obama supporters are the one with creepy messianic devotion? At least our guy ran for President. Maha Rushie is an entertainment personality, not some great intellectual. The guy proclaims to be someone who “worked from the bottom” when he came from a prominent and wealthy family. But he’s like “upward mobility totally happens just ask people who aren’t me.” I might also add that I’m a regular listener of the program and to suggest that GOP doesn’t work off Limbaugh talking points is just a little too hard to bear, they both continue to cling to this free market ideology that Alan Greenspan has admitted was 100% wrong.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Then what is Obama worried about? I don’t remember Bush ever telling Democrats they shouldn’t listen to Olbermann.
Jim Treacher on January 24, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Which would make sense if I was claiming that college students are more liberal than 50yos (duh). What I was saying is that the percentage of the college age crowd who identify as liberal has gone UP. And, here’s the kicker for your side, it’s gone up as the number of full time college students who have to work to help pay their tuitioin has ALSO gone up. More college students are working jobs than ever before and thus, doing the kinds of habits you insist lead to conservatism. But nope, more and more of them are openly identifying as liberal. Your side is kind of screwed for this generation.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM
this free market ideology that Alan Greenspan has admitted was 100% wrong.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:14 PM
I am not going to trust the judgement of someone who is married to Andrea Mitchell.
kingsjester on January 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Tell me about it. What turned this liberal into a conservative was a combination of paying bills, having a family, and 9/11.
Unfortunately, some people never grow up.
Matt Helm on January 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Obama is desirous to do away with the two-party system of government, obviously. He’s almost there, given that the spineless Republicans now seem to be cowering like jelly before Teh One!.
McCain is no longer ours, if he ever was. McCain came back arguing for Hillary and for ‘bipartisanship’ (defined now as ‘Democrats Rule, the rest of you STFU and STFD’). If McCain is the defacto opposition leader, then this nation truly is doomed.
Rush represents the embodiment of the only real opposition to Obama’s socialism and the left’s ultimate success. That’s a great burden placed on such a small individual.
Serr8d on January 24, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Sigh. There’s “listen” i.e. turn your radio dial to. And “listen” as in, following the edicts of. Limbaugh put himself on blast going after the President and wishing him failure. Obama was rightly saying that if the GOP follows that path of open hostility and warfare it will not work well for them. So here’s hoping that the GOP does what you want Matt Helm, embrace Rush’s venom and hate. It really works well after you’ve lost an election.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Things will change when these “liberals” hit the streets to try for their first job and discover that “Hey, we would like to hire you, but we can’t afford it/you’re not the right color/right gender/right age, etc.
Paying your own bills has a way of killing liberalism.
Bishop on January 24, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Yeah. What amazes me is that these kids know nothing about what goes on in Europe. They think they want the same policies, and yet they know nothing about the employment situation in countries that practice socialism. They are also unaware that young people are immigrating elsewhere not only to find jobs but environments that offer them more upward mobility.
Cody1991 on January 24, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Is that really all your side has on this subject. Because I think that’s what I call ownage.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:20 PM
Rush Limbaugh is right. You can’t keep running a perpetual deficit ($400+ billion this year, piled onto a DEBT of $9+ trillion), exporting jobs and industries while importing welfare recipients, cutting taxes while adding more government programs, supporting foreigners and fighting their wars for them at our taxpayers’ expense, and assuming infinite economic growth on a finite planet, without the whole damned thing suffering a catastrophic collapse. We are skating along the precipice. The GOP needs leaders, not more hyperkinetic lemmings.
chunderroad on January 24, 2009 at 3:20 PM
Wow. What this is going to accomplish is not what Prez O. thinks it’s going to accomplish.
Two things:
1.What actual conservatives know, is that “his” idea of republicans, we real conservatives consider sell-outs. What this is going to accomplish is to fortify true conservatism and bringing the sell-outs back into the fold – or left on the outside. And they will not continue to get re-elected.
Time will tell.
2. He puts Rush out there as a poster child to start testing the water for the fairness doctrine or something that does the same thing but called something different. He knows that the MSM will jump on board to twist and lie about what he says and how he thinks. He will watch the polls for those that may believe silencing talk radio is the thing to do. Or just that maybe it isn’t a bad thing. Time will tell on this one too.
Can you spell Revolution? Now, that’s HOPE.
JeffinOrlando on January 24, 2009 at 3:21 PM
The Republican Party needs to become the asshole of the Senate. Please let me explain.
All the body parts got together to decide who should be the boss.The brain said since he does all the thinking, he should be boss. The stomach said , since he processes all the food, he should be boss. The eyes, since they see and guide everyone else, said they should be boss.Then the asshole said he should be boss. This brought about laughter from all the other body parts, so the asshole became mad and closed up.After awhile, the brain couldnt think, the stomach threw up, and the eyes became blurry.They elected the asshole to be the boss.
Filibuster until they eyes get blurry, stick a legislative cork so far up obama’s and pelosi’s ass that they wont even be able to think,we need less unity, and SOMEBODY PLEEEEEESE START STANDING UP TO THESE MORONS!!!
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on January 24, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Since 2000 that number has only grown. Can we stop the silly myth that college students don’t work. Frankly the only undergrads I knew in college who didn’t have to work were rich kids and they tended to be conservative.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Alana & Matt:
I remember him giving the finger to Hillary and to McCain as well as dissing Nancy. It was immature and petulant. The kind of behavior you’d expect from a teenager trying to impress his peers rather than an adult.
INC on January 24, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Allahpundit is a
donkmarxist plant paid by Soros to sow dissension among the ranks of true conservatives.It’s untoward for a president to single out a private citizen like obama did limbaugh. If the gop should stop listening to fellow conservatives like limbaugh, then obama should stop listening to his koran. eff him.
Blake on January 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM
you give him to much credit, i honestly think he is playing by ear and has no idea.
trailortrash on January 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Try exercising more.
Not going along with everything the president says is “open hostility and warfare.” And here I thought it was the highest form of patriotism.
How about tackling the tough one: Why is Obama worried about Rush, and entertainment personality, in the first place? Why didn’t we hear Bush calling out his critics on the left this way?
Jim Treacher on January 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Sources?
Skywise on January 24, 2009 at 3:25 PM
You guys really have to stop making fun of Obama supporters for their over the moon support, reading this stuff from Rush Babies lets me know that Rush just hates Obama because he stole his thunder in terms of massing together adoring hordes. Get off the mans nutsack would ya.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Maybe Obama’s just stupid.
JellyToast on January 24, 2009 at 3:28 PM
Quit your lying DeathToMediaHacks
Here’s the paragraph following your cite.
http://www.brockport.edu/career01/upromise.htm
Skywise on January 24, 2009 at 3:28 PM
And each and every passing day, Rush’s hordes grow. With thanks and gratitude to Obama.
sherry on January 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM
Sources?
Skywise on January 24, 2009 at 3:25 PM
On college students in the workforce, see this:
http://www.brockport.edu/career01/upromise.htm
On the number of college students who identify as liberal Newsweek just published a bunch of polls on party ID and philosophical orientation. “Obama’s America” is the title of the issue, just came out before the inaugural. Among the other data points from their polls is that they found 20 year highs in support for government paid healthcare/energy investment. But super low support for government handing out breaks/subsidies to corporations. We may be ending the age of corporatism.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM
There’s no big mystery here, the guy just doesn’t think before he speaks. It was evident throughout the whole campaign.
lowandslow on January 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM
Mr. Obama actually reads his own press…………
………… and in believing it, he is an idiot?
Seven Percent Solution on January 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM
It’s definitely not very smart for the new President to be throwing hissyfits so early on. It’s as if he’s declaring Limbaugh to be “Obama Public/Media Enemy #1.
Not smart. Or, conversely, it’s very shrewd. He just might be pushing the envelope to see what level of ‘tyranny’ he can get away with as POTUS. First he cows the Congressional GOP, then goes for Conservative Media.
Are we next? Scary, yes, if it weren’t so childish and laughable. But that’s how other countries’ tyrants started, isn’t? Unfortunately, he’s got the Mainstream Media and a near stranglehold Democratic majority control of Congress to back him up. Just depends on how far the Dems in Congress are willing to let him go, considering that he’s also working on undermining their power and control at the same time.
This should be a very interesting two years, indeed. The Midterms are right around the corner, and the Dems have to be starting to sweat a little, between the new President’s posturing and crazies like Murtha inviting derision and laughter as well.
KendraWilder on January 24, 2009 at 3:30 PM
DeathToMH:
Hey, you know no one here uses these kind of phrases about Rush:
Those are all statements pulled from the Headlines just from today. I have seen so many statement in which O’s supporters act as if he will save their soul and solve all of their problems.
I like many things about what Rush says. But I know he’s not the be all and end all of my existence. I know he’s flawed and I have no illusions about that.
As he says, he’s popular not because he tells us what to think, but because he has a voice for the things we ALREADY thought.
INC on January 24, 2009 at 3:31 PM
I do have to be honest, we conservatives have to take our share of the blame for the young libbies–we failed them in the educational process in that we did not keep a close enough eye on the public school system and we did not hold university faculty’s feet to the fire sufficiently and it is too late now. We allowed bureaucrats to “dumb down” our educational system through the practice of mainstreaming, we turned our eyes to “social passing”, we didn’t do enough to stop the introduction of historical revisionism and post-modernism in the educational process. And finally, we failed the young libbies by not ensuring that they were taught the traditional virtues: honor, patriotism, civility and ethics, self-restraint, duty, respect for others, sportsmanship in honest, hard-fought competition, and the other “hard” virtues. Instead, they were fed a steady diet of self-esteem and self-centeredness, they were constantly told that their country and governmental system was evil and worthless, that the Founding Fathers were nothing more than exploitative demons, that individual enterprise and initiative was exploitative, that private property was selfish; that being male or Caucasian was evil; that having faith was childish and foolish, and a host of other ills.
We conservatives allowed this to happen–so we should shoulder some of the blame. Now, it is up to us to correct it.
Matt Helm on January 24, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Well at least the college students wouldn’t have to work anymore, huh?
Skywise on January 24, 2009 at 3:31 PM
not so fast; Greenspan was referring to his own approach to laissez-faire capitalism not free market ideology as a whole.
runner on January 24, 2009 at 3:31 PM
The frack? How is that a lie. I said more college students than ever are adding work to their scholastic responsibilities. It’s a juggling act that will prepare them for making hard decisions later in life. But the myth that “hard work” and conservatism go hand in hand is one of those things that’s really hard for people to let go of. Ironically, even as they not that left wingers work tirelessly to advance their agenda. How is it that lefties “work tirelessly” to push their agenda, but “hard working” people automatically become conservative. The logical leaps you people take to justify your own memes are astounding.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Why didn’t we hear Bush calling out his critics on the left this way?
Jim Treacher on January 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM
He’s not into child abuse? ;))
Cody1991 on January 24, 2009 at 3:32 PM
I just read this as Obama being overly sensitive to criticism. The guy who declares his ears off limits ain’t much of a man.
Angry Dumbo on January 24, 2009 at 3:32 PM
I think he’s anything but stupid. He’s just tone deaf and someone who’d actually spent time in politics before going for the highest office would have known better. This is just a preview of how he’s going to govern, and it doesn’t bode well. At. All.
flipflop on January 24, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Well at least the college students wouldn’t have to work anymore, huh?
Skywise on January 24, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Won’t they be surprised when they find they have no jobs to work at, period.
Damn corporations and their evilness.
Bishop on January 24, 2009 at 3:33 PM
QFT
Spirit of 1776 on January 24, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Sighhhhhhhh. You won’t have this 25-year old vote for Obama, that’s for sure. Unless he bucks up, becomes the real “uniter” he says he is, then I will never consider ever voting for a Democrat again. If I were twice my age, I would say that the Dem party left me, not the other way around. I don’t agree with a lot of the economic views that conservatives AND libertarians have, but I don’t believe in handing money to people who don’t work for it, and that includes the bailout and the people never pay taxes. You can’t win an election with just my generation voting anyway. Somewhat like Bush (with his coalition of Blue Dog Democrats, Hispanics, evangelicals, etc. in 2004), Obama, in my opinion, got elected based on a coalition of Blacks, Hispanics, far-lefters, and straight-Democratic voters. He’s not the “Change You Can Believe In” if anybody with any sense has anything to say about it. With the exception of Robert Gates, his appointments are barely “uniter” centric, i.e. cenrist. Hilda Solis certainly wouldn’t get my vote on the Senate floor.
NathanG on January 24, 2009 at 3:33 PM
GOP leadership hardly ever listens to Limbaugh. Hard to understand why, they did very much so in the 90s and had a largely great run in Congress then.
The Dean on January 24, 2009 at 3:34 PM
You are some sort of laugh attack, and not being serious, I hope..
This country need some loyal opposition right now. Obama is an inexperienced boy-man who’s used to being petted like a prize-winning show dog. He’s a narcissist, as evidenced by his years of pot-smoking and line-snorting, and he is not the ‘man’ I would see as a decent ‘community organizer’ of a small town in Illinois, much less the leader of the free world.
My God, man, stand up against this buffoon. He’s not Lincoln, and he’s likely not fit to sleep in Lincoln’s bedroom.
Serr8d on January 24, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Yea, and Obama’s giving Rush a little too much credit here.
scalleywag on January 24, 2009 at 3:36 PM
and only in the single issue of the banking crisis while omitting the governments demand for lowered credit standards the set up the conditions for that banking crisis.
Skandia Recluse on January 24, 2009 at 3:36 PM
How is it that lefties “work tirelessly” to push their agenda, but “hard working” people automatically become conservative.
Because “pushing an agenda” seems to consist mostly of vandalizing Army offices, assaulting old women, molotoving churches and generally making life hell for those people who need to get to work.
You never wondered how all those Code Pinkos managed to survive by spending all their time in front of the Berkeley Army recruiting office for weeks on end?
Bishop on January 24, 2009 at 3:37 PM
I did when I graduated from college and decided to grow up
Squid Shark on January 24, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Corporations, maaaaaaaaaaan!!
Jim Treacher on January 24, 2009 at 3:37 PM
I was suprised Rush could fit IN the Lincoln Bedroom
Squid Shark on January 24, 2009 at 3:39 PM
You never wondered how all those Code Pinkos managed to survive by spending all their time in front of the Berkeley Army recruiting office for weeks on end?
Bishop on January 24, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Yeah, I’d like to know wassup with those chicks. They flit all over the globe. Who’s funding them? Are they Soros’ Girl Brigade? Seriously. Someone has to be paying for their shenanigans – and Pepto Bismal duds.
Cody1991 on January 24, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Your generation won’t always be under 30. The first time people vote tends to lock in their party preference for the long haul, especially in such an emotional election as this one. People REALLY supported Obama (I was even willing to give House and Senate Dems a chance and then they did something afucked it up) and they are Dem party identified as a result. The same thing happened with Reagan supporters, those people are for the most part still locked into Republicanism (thankfully they are getting older and older) and pretty much gave us the last 30 years of electoral leadership in this country (thanks guys btw, good work). But a sea change has happened, just like it did post the depression and I suspect will last longer than conservatives want to realize. This isn’t a rejection of a party because of “family values.” When people associate your party with economic collapse it is really, really hard to come back.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Rush just hates Obama because he stole his thunder in terms of massing together adoring hordes.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Heh, Rush has had consistent hordes for twenty years, Ogabe is already starting to shed his.
Bishop on January 24, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Theory? Easy. The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler may have “street cred” but in the real world, his I.Q. is about as high as a bag of hammers. He is the face of a movement and it will be interesting to learn just who is pulling the strings.
missouriyankee on January 24, 2009 at 3:42 PM
The food bill alone must be unbelievable.
Jim Treacher on January 24, 2009 at 3:42 PM
I think he needs to stop listening to Harry Ried and Nancy Pelosi. They’re going to be his downfall, not Rush.
scalleywag on January 24, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Rush responds to Obama via Byron York at NRO.
Wethal on January 24, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Well look at the pot calling the collective kettle black.
NathanG on January 24, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Well, that’s just too bad. They’re obviously not on our side. That doesn’t mean we pipe down (or the representatives do) just to avoid the inevitable spin.
Run scared from the MSM – they win for sure.
Alana on January 24, 2009 at 3:45 PM
The adolescents are back in the white house! The past eight years I never heard Bush cry about CBS, NBC, ABC, CNBC, MSNBC and PBS! This is supposed to be the leader of the free world and he cries about RUSH! Were doomed, CAN WE ALL SAY FAIRNESS DOCTRINE! And could someone open a can of whoop ASS on him to toughen him up! Little yellow back liberal!
time2taketheglovesoffGOP on January 24, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Cody1991 on January 24, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Speaking truth to power and all that. Liberals love their empty pap, and the Code Dipshats personify it in spades.
Of course you will never hear them complain about the recent Predator strike in Pakistan that killed 20, nor will you hear it from the likes of MediaHacks. He has it in his head that a “sea change” has occurred, even though 50+ million people voted against Ogabe in November.
Bishop on January 24, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Like I said, the leaps you guys have to go through to push your insane myths is mind bending. All leftwing organizing is vandalism and code pink? That’s it? The ACLU doesn’t review, research and try hundreds of cases each year? Liberal lobbying groups are less hard working than conservative ones? People who volutneer their time in homeless shelters, HIV-AIDS clinics (overwhelmingly liberal) are doing that in addition to working because they are lazy? Come the f*ck on man, I don’t think you actually believe that. But I guess you’ll find SOME way to rationalize away this countrys movement to the left. And I might add, at EVERY level of society American’s are working more jobs, more hours and despite this increase in productivity, wages have not risen at the same rate. But the country’s leftward lurch is because people are “lazy” and “don’t work.”
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Ha, I think we have a winner.
scalleywag on January 24, 2009 at 3:46 PM
I wonder when the last time was that a sitting Pres. tried to stifle free speech?
Speakup on January 24, 2009 at 3:46 PM
All I’m hearing in answer to your question is <<<<<>>>>. In all fairness, Econ 101 class may be underway, and he’ll be back in an hour.
a capella on January 24, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Wethal,
Thanks for the quote. Rush is already on to this. That’s a well thought out response.
I notice he also picked up on the Alinsky scenario.
INC on January 24, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Great, Thanks Wethal.
Rush is going to use everything in his power to expose this fraud!
katy on January 24, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Obama, like all good Marxists and Democrats, does not like opposition or accountability. Marxists question others. They don’t get questions, unless the questions are about their Utopian visions or how hard they have been suffering under the tremendous strain of saving the world.
Obama has proved this time and time again. Joe the Plumber became Obama enemy number 1 for a short time, because he asked a question. Rush not only asks the questions
,, he provides the answers and stimulates thought. He dares to laugh publicly at the messiah. He refuses to bend over. Rush not only frustrates and anger the Dems,,, he embarrasses the Republicans. He embarrasses them because he acts like a man.
Of course he doesn’t want the Republicans to listen.
I had posted this here at least two years ago. If the fairness doctrine returns, it will be with the help of Republicans. Republican leaders began selling out long ago.
They have no principles. All they care about is their own futures and good press. Dems will destroy the nation as long as they can be in power. Republicans will go along or turn the other way as long as they get good press.
JellyToast on January 24, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Good question. Quite possibly, whoever was President at the time the Fairness Doctrine went into effect. Other than during times of war, the most blatant example I can think of is the Alien and Sedition Acts–which I’m sure Bambi would love to see re-enacted.
Matt Helm on January 24, 2009 at 3:49 PM
That’s exactly why it was a MISTAKE for Obama to say that on Friday.
Rush had time to formulate a response and he’s already putting one out.
By Monday, this will be widely known.
INC on January 24, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Manners? Is that the public school system talking?
christene on January 24, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Glenn Reynolds: “I’m picturing Rush delirious with glee, pacing the cavernous rooms of his mansion, booming out monologues to his kitty cat Pumpkin, as he waits for Monday noon to finally roll around. This will be good.”
Mr. Joe on January 24, 2009 at 3:51 PM
The American people voted for more government dominance over their lives. That’s what they are now starting to get. Every move Obama has made since taking office is wrong. Every move. A trillion-dollar boondoggle is about to be dropped like a brick on our heads, our children’s heads, our grandchildren’s heads, and our great-grandchildren’s heads.
Rush is right in hoping Obama fails. Of course, the context is that he hopes Obama fails in Obama’s agenda. If you ask Rush, he still of course hopes America (anti-socialist America) succeeds.
Nobody in America today so loudly calls out Obama’s mistaken plans for this country as does Rush Limbaugh. Obama clearly fears effective dissent against his endeavors. It didn’t even take Obama 72 hours in office to aim his cannon at El Rushbo. I say, go Rush go.
Edouard on January 24, 2009 at 3:51 PM
Uh… is that an order mine furer? Can they still listen to us? Turd.
RalphyBoy on January 24, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Obama did what he did during the entire election.
If an issue pops up that you don’t want to talk about, change the subject. The press will dutifully obsess on the new subject an Obama slides on by.
29Victor on January 24, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Wethal’s quote shows Rush’s response to Obama is time stamped at 3:32. It was just posted.
INC on January 24, 2009 at 3:53 PM
So Obama take a shot at Limbaugh, thereby upsetting (some) conservatives. So what? What exactly is it that we’re running these days, except our mouths?
We’re politically irrelevant, and Obama knows it. He can talk trash to us day and night, and we can’t do a damn thing about it except whine and moan.
paul006 on January 24, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Mr. Death… you are the biggest hack.
Jamson64 on January 24, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Rush…
What’s wrong with opposing single-party rule?
And, why aren’t the elected
cowardsRepublicans out there saying this sort of thing? I’ll tell you why..they are scared shitless of the Obama right now.Rush is doing Republicans a favor. Not because they asked him to, but because he is a conservative first, an American, and he has the right to speak truth to power.
Not only is Rush doing Republicans a favor, but also the rest of us who are voiceless in this process.
Serr8d on January 24, 2009 at 3:57 PM
And Rush uses his opportunity to say…..the exact same stuff he’s been saying about these kinds of stimulus programs SINCE THE ELECTION. The man really only has about 5 ideas, he just packages them in different ways.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:58 PM
You know who Obama sounds like?
Liberal Larry from BlameBush! “Turn off Rush Limbaugh and go to college!”
fiatboomer on January 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM
I have met a few recent college graduates, and for the most part they are up to their eyeballs in debt. Work? These eople are students, work would interfere with their learning. Would anyone like to get a BA in English and owe $50,000?
Pelayo on January 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Or he can’t, because it unravels his whole thesis.
Jim Treacher on January 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM
What, DTMH, you can’t handle the truth?
Serr8d on January 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Obama is starting to make a fool out of himself.
Firebird on January 24, 2009 at 4:01 PM
I see you also follow Alinsky.
INC on January 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM
This is going viral all weekend. Watch the Sunday shows (if you can stomach them). Interesting to see if the MSM trys to hide or diminish it.
katy on January 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM
All depend on what the ideas are (after all , there are only and 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights)
runner on January 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM
DeathtoMediaHacks, do you consider yourself a conservative, libertarian, a liberal, or somewhere in between. With all due respect, I haven’t read any criticism from you about people on the left. I don’t like the crazy screeds about Obama on this site anymore than you do, but it seems that when push comes to shove, they’re about equal with the unhinged left. People on the left have said so many things that are illogical, whacked-out, and altogether hateful that I can’t see feeling angry or appalled that those on the right and/or this blog wouldn’t do the same thing. They’re angry, but at least some of them are logical and well thought out. Maybe it’s my conservative bias, but it seems to me that the left has the lead on how to create lunatic premises or myths out of Bush’s before/after his presidency. The Laura Bush accident when she was like 17 comes to mind, considering that she (1) wasn’t married to him at the time and (2)was only 17. Collectively considering the shift to left for my generation is kind of silly. A lot of people on both sides of the political spectrum don’t seem to know what the HELL they’re talking about. All I have to do is listen to the people around me at work, in public, and the like. They’re misinformed. Heck, that may change with the times too. And you’re right, there has been a shift to the left after economic collapse, and there may be another 30, 40 years before a Republican president comes along. I suspect Hillary will run in 2016 and win. Who knows. I wouldn’t count my eggs before they’re hatched. Also, Obama is no FDR. He’s just another president in a long line of them. This is what annoys me so much about the people peeing their pants at the inaugration. They’re putting him on a pedestal and he might not fulfill their wishes. The jury’s still out on him, so I wouldn’t be so quick to judge about the shift of anything in politics. Reagan brought the Republican Party back after only 4 years, and 6 years after the Nixon/Ford administrations. Never say never.
NathanG on January 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM
I hope NRO can handle the traffic they’re going to get with this.
INC on January 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM
So let me see if I understand this:
When Gov. Palin speaks out against her critics in the media, she’s being a whiner. When Obama complains about conservative talk radio, this is reasonable? It doesn’t reflect poorly on him.
Hmmm . . . interesting.
You know, at least Gov. Palin was responding to direct inquiries from an interviewer doing a documentary that was specifically focused on media malpractice. What in the world provoked The One to impugn Rush? He must have been listening to the show earlier this week when Rush said he hopes he fails. Obama appears to have a habit of complaining about conservative talk radio. As I mentioned in another thread, all you have to do is listen to Hannity’s bumper on his radio show and it’s really striking just how fixated His Excellency seems to be on our esteemed radio hosts. I think this pattern speaks to some pretty deep-seated insecurities. Not exactly what I would expect from a messiah.
NoLeftTurn on January 24, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Of course college kids who have to work are liberal. They figure that if THE ONE is in power he will wave his magic wand and no more having to work.
Plus there is an element of peer pressure. Remember these are 18 and 19 year olds. Last thing anyone at that age wants to do is go against the majority thinking.
You cannot be so naive as to know know this already.
angryed on January 24, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Since when do Presidents act like they’re on Springer? Oh, I know since when…
LibTired on January 24, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Balderdash! The fact is that he has told us many times about his family, and about how many times he was fired and broke, and started all over again. Indeed, if you really did listen to Rush you’d know how many people he has inspired to make something better of their lives.
Typical seminar caller.
There hasn’t been a free market! Forcing banks to give loans to people with no credit and no money down is not the free market, and neither is preventing us from drilling for oil or natural gas. This worldwide recession was caused by a perfect storm of the rise in energy costs and collapse of the housing market. You own this disaster, dude.
Buy Danish on January 24, 2009 at 4:08 PM
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:45 PM
1) Wait…you just admitted the ACLU is a leftwing organization? Ruh roh.
2) People who volunteer at shelters and AIDS clinics are overwhelmingly liberal? Link please, and not some bullshit link, a real one and not some anecdotal crap either.
3) Yes I do believe that liberals aren’t as hard working as conservatives because its true.
-Hard working folks don’t expect government to bail them out, they seek their own fortunes.
-Hard working people don’t call whatever they desire in life a “right” in order to have someone else pay for it.
-Hardworking people don’t personify godliness in a President in order to achieve goals that they themselves have historically been unable to achieve through their own faults.
You don’t have to like it but you do have to accept it. Liberalism in all its views is anathema to the idea of hard work. Governments role should be to get out of the way, not hold your hand.
Bishop on January 24, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Hot damn! A twofer! He got Alinsky’s
connection in there.
a capella on January 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Go**am emphasis keys.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 24, 2009 at 3:45 PM
1) Wait…you just admitted the ACLU is a leftwing organization? Ruh roh.
2) People who volunteer at shelters and AIDS clinics are overwhelmingly liberal? Link please, and not some bullshit link, a real one and not some anecdotal crap either.
3) Yes I do believe that liberals aren’t as hard working as conservatives because its true.
-Hard working folks don’t expect government to bail them out, they seek their own fortunes.
-Hard working people don’t call whatever they desire in life a “right” in order to have someone else pay for it.
-Hardworking people don’t personify godliness in a President in order to achieve goals that they themselves have historically been unable to achieve through their own faults.
You don’t have to like it but you do have to accept it. Liberalism in all its views is anathema to the idea of hard work. Governments role should be to get out of the way, not hold your hand.
Bishop on January 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM
It’s called consistency.
An honorable trait.
Unlike, the Democrat/Liberal chameleon.
christene on January 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM
I don’t think the GOP listen to anyone, why would they list to Obama? Obama really presumes too much, did he check out that you tube “How Obama Got Elected” right the GOP couldn’t bother to listen long enough to counter those Mensa Giants:)
Pulease Obama wants us to think he is paying attention to the loyal opposition “GOP” I bet this is just something he crossed off his to do list. Oh is that his mother in law calling? Barack did you take out the garbage yet? It isn’t going to take itself out…LOL! Obama lives with his mother in law, he is so whipped!
Dr Evil on January 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Seems the Chicago Thug may have picked the wrong target. But not even Rush can transplant a spine into the hapless republicans. They are beyond all hope.
Zorro on January 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Rush is going to need to start doing a Saturday show as well.
rbj on January 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM
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