uscitizen
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Like the liberal media?
All bow to the leader - Rush Linbaugh....
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/02/AR2009030202496.html?hpid=topnews
Sorry, I should have been clearer for the retarded people... The Obama White House via its mouthpiece said it.
meme
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He doesn't have the right to tell ANYBODY who they should listen to..
Rush is a conservative with 20 million listeners, so maybe they should listen to his program to see what the people who listen and call in to his show think.
like I said, Obama is a childish bully
"White House spokesman Robert Gibbs added his voice yesterday, saying reporters should ask Republicans "whether they agree with what Rush Limbaugh said . . . in wishing and hoping for economic failure in this country."
Ha ha, I didn't know that Gibbs had gotten into the act, thanks! This is great stuff. After watching R's mindfuck Democrats for 8 years during which Dems did whatever they were told to do, it's great to have some new liberal blood in DC who knows how to make those R's dance!
Obama's economy is in such a shambles it called for a wag the dog moment and Rahm knowing this was an opportunity to wag that dog grabbed hold of the tail.
Here's the real deal:
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says he has reached out to Rush Limbaugh to tell him he meant no offense when he referred to the popular conservative radio host as an “entertainer” whose show can be “incendiary.”
“My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh,” Steele said in a telephone interview. “I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. … There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.”
The dust-up comes at a time when top Democrats are trying to make Limbaugh the face of the Republican Party, in part by using ads funded by labor. Americans United for Change sent a fund-raising e-mail Monday that begins: “The Republican Party has turned into the Rush Limbaugh Party.”
Steele told CNN host D.L. Hughley in an interview aired Saturday night: “Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh — his whole thing is entertainment. He has this incendiary — yes, it's ugly.”
Steele, who won a hard-fought chairman's race on Jan. 30, told Politico he telephoned Limbaugh after his show on Monday afternoon and hoped that they would connect soon.
“I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking,” Steele said. "It was one of those things where I thinking I was saying one thing, and it came out differently. What I was trying to say was a lot of people … want to make Rush the scapegoat, the bogeyman, and he’s not."
“I’m not going to engage these guys and sit back and provide them the popcorn for a fight between me and Rush Limbaugh,” Steele added. “No such thing is going to happen. … I wasn’t trying to slam him or anything.”
On Monday’s show, Limbaugh reacted both to the comment and to the assertion on CBS’s “Face the Nation” by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel that the radio host is “the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party.”
Limbaugh said: “I'm not in charge of the Republican Party, and I don't want to be. I would be embarrassed to say that I'm in charge of the Republican Party in the sad-sack state that it's in. If I were chairman of the Republican Party, given the state that it's in, I would quit. I might get out the hari-kari knife because I would have presided over a failure that is embarrassing to the Republicans and conservatives who have supported it and invested in it all these years.”
On the RushLimbaugh.com home page, the transcript is labeled: “A Few Words for Michael Steele.”
On Monday night, DNC Chairman Tim Kaine called on Republicans to "stop following divisive figures" like Limbaugh.
"I was briefly encouraged by the courageous comments made my counterpart in the Republican Party over the weekend challenging Rush Limbaugh as the leader of the Republican Party and referring to his show as ‘incendiary’ and ‘ugly,’" Kaine said in a statement. "However, Chairman Steele’s reversal this evening and his apology to Limbaugh proves the unfortunate point that Limbaugh is the leading force behind the Republican Party, its politics and its obstruction of President Obama’s agenda in Washington."
In the interview with Politico, Steele called Limbaugh “a very valuable conservative voice for our party.”
“He brings a very important message to the American people to wake up and pay attention to what the administration is doing," Steele said. "Number two, there are those out there who want to look at what he’s saying as incendiary and divisive and ugly. That’s what I was trying to say. It didn’t come out that way. … He does what he does best, which is provoke: He provokes thought, he provokes the left. And they’re clearly the ones who are most excited about him.”
Asked if he planned to apologize, Steele said: “I wasn’t trying to offend anybody. So, yeah, if he’s offended, I’d say: Look, I’m not in the business of hurting people’s feelings here. … My job is to try to bring us all together.”
I often listen to Rush's program, he is very entertaining. I however very rarealy agree with Rush.
Assuming that his listeners all agree with him lock stock and barrel is a huge mistake.
Of course he does. If I want to move forward with a program, and I want to work with those who disagree with my priorities, I can certainly suggest to them that they'd be better served not listening to someone who simply wants me to fail, and is counseling those who disagree with me to not try to work w/ me & to oppose me every step of the way.
This is America, meme. We have freedom of speech. People can suggest basically whatever they want, as long as it doesn't harm others.
Sure dissenting opinions should be allowed, in fact encouraged.
meme
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He's suppose to be "A PRESIDENT", not a dictator..
You know that's a good point Jarod.
You know that R's are hoping that Rush has a heart attack in the middle of one of his rants where he butt jumps in and out of his chair on the air? The best thing for them would be a dead Rush, so they would only have to go swear their undying fealty one last time, and they could compete to see who can be more slavish and self-degrading in their oaths to the dead King.
But then they'd never have to do it again.
You do know those guys vote on what they'll be getting, right?
And saying, "If the programs are socialist then I hope they'll fail." is not the same thing as saying I hope he fails at every endeavor he ever participates in.
evince
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He's being a President; a pretty great one, so far. He isn't "dictating" anything.
You're really fuzzy on some of these terms; suggesting is not dictating.
uscitizen
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evince
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He is not being a dictator, were he acting as a dictator he would do something like suspend the constitution for those he suspects to be terrorists.
meme
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He hasn't looked very Presidential to me..he's a whiner, a bully and teleprompter junkie..
Some how I could have predicted you would feel that way.