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From the Thursday, October 10, 2013 edition of "The Rush Limbaugh Show"

Rush Limbaugh Reacts To Obama Presser: Have We Ever Had A More Dishonest President? - 10/8/13

10/8/13 - (theblaze.com) - "What he said just is not true." That was Rush Limbaugh's instantaneous reaction to President Obama's Tuesday afternoon press conference where he continued to chide Republicans for the government shutdown and ramped up anti-GOP rhetoric as it pertains the debt limit fight. "From start to finish what he said about the debt limit is not true," Limbaugh said, sounding almost disgusted. He also used the term "over the top."
"Someone has to go to the microphone and correct this a-sap," he added. "What he just said about the debt limit, is-- well I don't know how to characterize it. It was dead wrong." Later, he said he's "lying" but then backed off.

Limbaugh's issue? He says it's wrong to think that if we don't raise the debt limit the U.S. will default on it's bills.

"It's not even possible, folks," he said, before explaining that the government collects enough revenue to pay our bills, which he characterized as paying the interest on our debt.

"I'm asking myself if we have ever had ... a more dishonest president," he added.

The only way we will default is if Obama refuses to follow the law, which ... could happen," Limbaugh said, citing the way Obamacare has been handled.

"I can't tell you how bad this is. It's beyond my ability without raising my voice and shouting. ... I think it's clear you're not scared enough and so he's out there really trying to scare you."

Rush Limbaugh on Government Shutdown: Media is 'Hammering' Republicans but We Are Still 'Winning'

10/4/13 - Rush Limbaugh found further proof that "the Democrats are losing" and "we are winning" when it comes to the government shutdown in the form of the hot mic moment that caught Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Rand Paul (R-KY) expressing optimism about the outcome for Republicans. "I'm telling you, I know it's hard for you to believe," Limbaugh told his listeners after playing audio of the exchange. "If you just look at the media every day it's hard to believe. You look at the media and think the Republicans are just getting hammered and hammered." But Limbaugh was evidently heartened by the comments from McConnell and Paul, predicting that rhetoric from Democrats will backfire.

"Barack Obama was elected because he was gonna end all of this," Limbaugh said of the stalemate in Washington. "No matter who was to blame for the bickering, Obama was a new kind of politician. Obama was gonna end it. Obama was gonna bring unity and comity and universal respect and get rid of all the old politics and bring on the new politics and everybody just gets along. Remember? And it's gotten worse than many people can remember it ever being, given their ages."

He did take a moment to commend whoever it was in the White House who decided to cancel Obama's trip to Asia. "If he'd gone ahead with this trip and had been seen negotiating with those guys, the ChiComs and whoever else he was gonna meet," Limbaugh said, "but refuses to sit down and talk to the Republicans who he's characterizing in very disparaging terms it would not have looked good, and the optics are what these people care about."

Rush Limbaugh: Dana Bash Was on Harry Reid's Side Before He Insulted Her

10/3/13 - Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh dug into controversial comments made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Wednesday in response to a question from CNN reporter Dana Bash. Reid called Bash "irresponsible" and "reckless" after asking if the Senate would pass a special bill to restore funding to the National Institutes of Health amid a government shutdown. Limbaugh asserted that Bash, who was sympathetic to Reid's position, was made less so by the senator's comment.

"The House is presumably going to pass a bill that funds at least the NIH. Given what you've said, will you at least pass that?" Bash asked in the question which set Reid off. "And if not, aren't you playing the same political games that Republicans are?"

"Even in her question, she savaged the Republicans," Limbaugh said. "The premise is that Republicans were playing political games with the lives of children. How much more biased could you get?"

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"She is totally on his side throughout this question, except when she says 'If you can help one child who has cancer why wouldn't you do that?'" the host continued.

Limbaugh mocked Bash breaking down in tears after being admonished by Reid for asking the question she did. He added that Reid's "meanness" and "heartlessness" came naturally to him.

"The media tells everybody that it's the Republicans who have no heart, it's the Republicans who hate women -- war on women, kids, minorities, you name it -- it's the Republicans who are trying to fund these programs after the Democrats shut this whole process down," Limbaugh insisted.

He played a clip of Reid telling liberal radio host Bill Press that the trap the GOP had set for him was to fund every aspect of the government separately in order to remove funding from the Affordable Care Act.

"This is a mean, vindictive, partisan little man," Limbaugh declared.

Rush Limbaugh Bashes 'Journalistic Malpractice' Attacking GOP Over Gov't Shutdown

9/30/13 - Rush Limbaugh took the media to task Monday for foisting all the blame of a potential government shutdown on Republicans. He mocked pieces like The Washington Post's "You will no longer be able to watch this baby panda online if the government shuts down" and this Associated Press articlefor basically saying Republicans want a shutdown and "hate the zoo" and all the rest of it.

Limbaugh predicted in the next few days the media would write piece after piece about all the programs getting shut down during the shutdown and blaming Republican intransigence on the whole thing. He referred to the AP article above as "basically a press release from the Democrat party" that accuses Republicans of hating Obama so much they're willing to let millions of people go without health care.

"It's just flat-out journalistic malpractice. There is no pretense--there's not even an objective pretense here to portray the Republican position on this anywhere near accurately."

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Rush Limbaugh: 'If Obamacare Is So Great,' Why Doesn't It 'Sell Itself?'

9/26/13 - Rush Limbaugh asked on Thursday why, if the Affordable Care Act was so "wonderful," it does not "sell itself?" He noted that a number of groups and institutions, from labor unions to the members of Congress and their staffs, have attempted to secure their own waivers and carve-outs from that law. Limbaugh wondered why President Barack Obama would have to hold campaign-style rallies in support of the law if it was self-evidently beneficial.

Limbaugh began by noting that Obama held a rally on Thursday morning at a Maryland college to "sell Obamacare."

"What's Obama doing? It's the law of the land," Limbaugh asked.

He asked why Obama did not pitch Congress on how "wonderful" the law is "instead of giving them a taxpayer subsidy for 75 percent of their premiums?"

"He didn't tell this audience today that they're going to get 75 percent of their premiums subsidized," Limbaugh added. "He told them how wonderful it is. He told them how inexpensive it is."

"He only goes before an audience made up of college kids and other low information voters who know even less about what he's talking about than he knows," he continued.

"If Obamacare is so great, why did Congress demand to be exempted from it?" Limbaugh asked. "They demanded to be exempted from it like the elites demand to be exempted from everything they subject all the rest of us to."

"In fact, if it is so wonderful, why does it need to be sold at all?" Limbaugh concluded. "It ought to just sell itself, shouldn't it?"

Rush Limbaugh: How Does Obama Understand American Exceptionalism Less Than Putin Does?

9/12/13 - Rush Limbaugh reacted to Vladimir Putin's New York Times op-ed by highlighting Putin piling on the concept of American exceptionalism. But as misguided as Putin's words were, Limbaugh suspected he might at least have a marginally better understanding of the concept than President Obama does. Limbaugh brought up a clip of Obama saying years ago that he believes in American exceptionalism as much as "the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism." Limbaugh took this to mean Obama thinks the only point of American exceptionalism is that it's "bragging" about how much better you are than everyone else. Putin used the last chunk of his op-ed to go after the idea of American exceptionalism. Here's what the Russian president had to say: It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal. Limbaugh cried, "Of course he would say that, he's a communist!" But it really bothered him that neither the White House nor "the American left" does not particularly disagree with Putin's argument, and now the Obama administration "apparently is willing" to be railroaded so Putin can take the claim to moral superiority. As far as Limbaugh was concerned, the White House got played. "We've got the communist leader of Russia more proudly quoting the Declaration of Independence than our own president does!... Do you people at the White House not know what's happened here? Vladimir Putin has positioned himself as a mature adult who stopped your immature child from messing around in somebody else's sandbox that he had no right being in and didn't know what he was doing."

Rush Limbaugh Mocks Barack Obama's 'Operation Shuck and Jive' in Syria

9/9/13 - Rush Limbaugh continued slamming President Obama's lack of a clear Syria strategy on Monday, calling his administration out for not making regime change a part of potential operations in Syria. But Limbaugh then went on to mockingly refer to the president's plan as Operation Shuck and Jive. "Bush had Shock and Awe, we're looking at Shuck and Jive here. That's what I'm gonna name this, the Obama operation in Syria: Operation Shuck and Jive. Because that's what this is." Limbaugh got some heat today for using the racially charged language, but he's not the first. Sarah Palin fought back against criticism last year that her using the same phrase when slamming Obama for lying on Benghazi.

Rush Limbaugh on Syria: How Does It Feel To Agree With A Former KGB Agent Over Your Own President?

9/5/13 - The news out today is that Russia has compiled a 100-page report of evidence that the Syrian rebels used chemical weapons, not the Assad regime. Even the NY Times documents the brutality of the Syrian rebels today, saying it creates a dilemma for the West. So given all of this, plus the fact that Obama and Kerry have lied many times over, Rush laments how difficult it is to have to agree with Russia over the word of our own American president and explains why he feels he must:

Rush Limbaugh Says Obama's 'Red Line' Blame Shifting Puts His 'Stability' in Question: 'Psycopathic'

9/5/13 - Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told his audience on Thursday that some are becoming concerned about the president's mental health. Limbaugh said that President Barack Obama declaring the use of chemical weapons in Syria a "red line" and then shifting that declaration to Congress and the international community once it was crossed is "psychopathic."

Limbaugh played a clip of the president in Sweden on Wednesday telling reporters that the world and Congress set the "red line" prohibiting the use of chemical weapons in Syria and he only referenced it in the summer of 2012.

"This is some-pathic, I don't know what kind," Limbaugh said. "Psychopathic, it's some pathic."

"It's Congress' fault, because they're the ones that passed a resolution decades ago against the use of chemical weapons," he added. "Oh yeah, it's the Republicans fault."

"There are people watching this and I'm telling you they're questioning the stability of the people running this country and they're scared to death," Limbaugh asserted.

Limbaugh said that the country is better off if it does not intervene in the Syrian civil war and accept the lost credibility that will result when nothing comes of Obama's forceful declarations about the need to act.

"This is dangerous," Limbaugh added. "It's not Obama cleverly outwitting his opponents. He's President of the United States and he's not up to it."

"He doesn't want the job," he insisted. "He'll be glad to raise your taxes and control your life with health care, but he doesn't want to do this stuff. It's too messy."

"It is his credibility on the line and there's nothing he can do about that," Limbaugh continued. "Can you imagine any president ever say, 'it's not my problem, it's America's problem."

"Who the hell says that? Who -- what kind of person thinks that?" the radio hosts went on.

Rush Limbaugh : Media Trying to 'Protect' Obama From His Own 'Red Line' in Syria

8/27/13 - Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh criticized the political press for engaging in what he called an effort to "water down" what President Barack Obama meant when he said that chemical weapons use in Syria represented a "red line" for the United States. The host cited news outlets which are interpreting Obama's "red line" to mean something less consequential than a military response.

"A red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized," Obama said in the summer of 2012.

"Now, the grey area there is translating what 'a whole bunch' means," Limbaugh said. "And that's where they're going to play games here."

Limbaugh cited some media reports which provided the government with a more ambiguous reading of Obama's "red line." He identified ABC News as one outlet which was actively trying "to get Obama out of this jam" by liberally interpreting what Obama's "red line" meant.

"So, even when Obama says he's being very clear, he's being too nuanced for us mere mortals," Limbaugh observed.

"Now, how can we be sure that Obama isn't trying to get us into yet another war?" the host asked. "Remember, Obama needs to distract people from his domestic agenda falling apart — well, falling apart from our perspective. From his perspective, it's right on schedule."

But he still needs people distracted from it. People don't like what's happening. They don't yet associate Obama with it. You know that drill. But even, so Obama doesn't want to run the risk that at some point people are going to associate what's happening with him, so just keep people distracted. It's exactly what he accused Bush of doing.