{"id":13260,"date":"2013-02-11T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:39:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-11T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:39:08","slug":"ignatius_begs_obama_spare_rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/11\/ignatius_begs_obama_spare_rubio\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignatius Begs Obama: Spare Rubio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/46032\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: A most amazing thing, to me, anyway.  This may not be that big a deal to you, but to me it is.  I found this on Newsbusters.  I didn\u2019t actually see this.  Chris Matthews has a syndicated show that runs on Sundays throughout the country.  This is not his nightly MSNBC tingle-up-the-leg show.  And on his show yesterday was Washington Post columnist David Ignatius who literally begged Obama, implored Obama not to destroy Marco Rubio in the upcoming immigration debate. <\/p>\n<p>I think this is a tantamount admission to what\u2019s going on.  I have alerted you and anybody who will listen that what the objective is at the White House is the annihilation of the Republican Party, the elimination of all viable opposition, and on a personal level.  You know, not just to annihilate Republican Party\/conservative ideas, but also people, the people who carry them, the people who believe in them.  And this is a tantamount admission that I, El Rushbo, was right about it. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/119899\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chris Matthews said, &#8220;Marco Rubio\u2019s been designated as the Republican respondent. Pretty smart guy. He\u2019s Cuban-American. He\u2019s talked on the immigration issue.  Will the president stick it to him and say, &#8216;I\u2019m gonna be good on immigration, you guys are gonna have to handle the issue.\u2019?&#8221; And David Ignatius said, &#8220;I think that he\u2019s gonna make immigration one of the issues he talks about in the State of the Union &#8211;&#8221; and he will, meaning Obama, immigration, gay rights. I\u2019ll tell you in advance what it\u2019s gonna be. <\/p>\n<p>The inauguration speech of Obama was a left-wing manifesto, and it\u2019s not reported as such because the media does not consider that anything to be abnormal or shocking or out of the mainstream. But taken by itself, his inauguration speech was as big a left-wing manifesto as you\u2019ll find anywhere, and more of the same is coming our way in the State of the Union show.  And whatever the issues are, whatever he talks about, it\u2019s gonna be presented from an uber-left-wing perspective.  And Ignatius said, &#8220;I think he\u2019s gonna make immigration one of the issues he talks about.  The State of the Union\u2019s okay, it\u2019s good, but here are the things we need to do.&#8221;  It\u2019s what he\u2019s gonna say. Gonna talk about immigration reform, gonna talk about climate change.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now back to David Ignatius on the Chris Matthews weekend show on Sunday talking about Marco Rubio. He says, &#8220;He\u00c2\u2019s going to talk about immigration reform,&#8221; in the State of the Union. &#8220;He\u2019s going to talk about climate change. He\u2019s going to certainly talk about bringing the troops home from the wars. I think he\u2019ll announce the number of troops that will be withdrawn. But, you know, the Marco Rubio question gets to whether Obama can get out of the zero-sum game Washington where to do something good on immigration reform, he\u2019s got to, you know, destroy Marco Rubio who is the Republican symbol of progress on that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I\u2019m looking to see whether he can lift his game beyond where he was in his inaugural address and really speak to the country, really speak to the people who didn\u2019t vote for him, as well as the people who did and have a platform for really doing something.&#8221; So here we have, quite by accident, a member of the State-Controlled Media openly admitting about what Obama is doing, admitting that the inaugural address was a left-wing manifesto and worrying what it means for the country if the State of the Union is the same things. He\u2019s openly asking: Can Obama accomplish anything without destroying somebody?<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_72678\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaDivideConquerIgnatius.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Meaning: Can Obama behave in such a way that his ideas will triumph, or can he only get what he wants by destroying his opponents? Well, you and I know the answer to that. Obama can\u2019t sell his ideas. He doesn\u2019t even try. The entire Obama MO &#8212; and it\u2019s been this way since Obama got into politics in Illinois as a state senator &#8212; has been to clear the playing field, not level it. This is why I have been imploring people to understand (particularly Republicans) that what they face is not just a president, but an entire Democrat Party which has as it is objective to eliminate all viable opposition, but not do so on the strength of their ideas &#8212; which they can\u2019t do, by the way.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Their ideas do not sell, and that\u2019s why Obama doesn\u2019t try to sell them. That\u2019s specifically why Obama has to destroy the credibility and the reputation of his political opponents. It\u2019s what they did to Romney. You know it and I know it and everybody else who\u2019s paying attention knows it. Romney knows it. They just didn\u2019t respond to it in the Romney campaign theoretically because they didn\u2019t have any money at the time the Obama attacking was taking place via all those TV ads. Even today Stephanie Cutter, the Obama campaign babe, is still out there saying (summarized), &#8220;Oh, yeah. Romney\u2019s a felon! Damn right. I\u2019m not ashamed of it. He was a felon then and he\u2019s a felon now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re still saying it because they\u2019re still in campaign mode. So their MO is literally to destroy their opposition and win in that way because their ideas do not triumph. And Ignatius here is practically admitting it. &#8220;The question gets to whether Obama can get out of the zero-sum game in Washington where to do something good on immigration reform he has to destroy Rubio, who is the Republican symbol of progress on that.&#8221; Zero-sum game means&#8230; In terms of economics, if you believe in a zero-sum game, you think that there\u2019s a infinite amount of money. For example, if somebody gets a raise of $10,000 a year, somebody has to lose it. You do not believe that the pie can grow.<\/p>\n<p>Well, what Ignatius is saying here is that Obama believes in the zero-sum game business in politics; that if somebody like Marco Rubio draws rave reviews and accolades, it means bad things for Obama. Obama cannot exist with his enemies being praised. Obama cannot exist with his political opponents also getting positive reviews. Zero-sum game. So what Obama has to do is make sure that none of his opponents get rave reviews or even approving comments. So he has to take them out, and Ignatius is openly hoping that Obama won\u2019t do that in this case, that he\u2019ll try for his immigration reform ideas on the strength of his ideas and not do it by destroying Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to tell you something, folks. This is a Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius. For him to be saying this&#8230; I don\u2019t care what show it is. For him to be saying this means that there is &#8212; and it\u2019s probably got a very faint heartbeat, and I\u2019m not trying to attach too much weight to this at all. But what it means is that even within the bowels of the liberal Democrat power base, there is some huge discomfort with the way Obama\u2019s operating. It\u2019s a faint heartbeat and don\u2019t misunderstand what I\u2019m saying. I\u2019m not saying there\u2019s an open revolt against Obama. Nothing like that. Do not put emphasis on this that I\u2019m not adding myself.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13375\"><img id=\"eZObject_72679\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushInterviewRubio3.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again, I think this book that I told you about has some profundities in it, the Antifragile book by Nassim Taleb. I think what Ignatius said on Matthews is important. He mighta said it as just throw-away, but I think there are strains of profundity in it because of what he\u2019s admitting. He\u2019s admitting it. He\u2019s basically admitting it. They want Obama to persuade. These guys believe in the ideology. They believe in the superiority of liberalism or progressivism, and they want Obama to win on that basis. They want the idea to triumph. They want that to be what everybody\u2019s supports. They\u2019re purists.<\/p>\n<p>They want to be winning because you become a liberal. They want to be winning because you accept progressivism. They don\u2019t want to be winning simply because Obama wipes out the opposition. They want you converted, and Obama\u2019s not converting you. He\u2019s ignoring you if you don\u2019t agree. He\u2019s taking out all of your leaders if he doesn\u2019t agree with you. But he\u2019s not building anything. He\u2019s tearing everything apart, tearing things down. That\u2019s what Ignatius is saying. He may not even realize it. And, again, don\u2019t infer something I\u2019m not saying. I\u2019m not saying there\u2019s something to build on here. To me, this is just one of my little observations.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this, and I think to most people it would zoom right by \u2019em and it wouldn\u2019t even register. But to me, it\u2019s striking. The reason I struck me is I look at John Dickerson. John Dickerson, the CBS political director, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13446\">is actually encouraging Obama to obliterate and annihilate the opposition<\/a>. And not just Dickerson. A lot of Obama\u2019s media have been begging him to just destroy the Republicans and the conservatives, to wipe \u2019em out and just destroy them. That\u2019s why Obama\u2019s focusing on Fox News and me and talk radio is the only two places left where there\u2019s any opposition to him in the media. But somewhere in the bowels &#8212; and, you know, Ignatius may be a lone wolf here, but he\u2019s clearly not comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>If he is imploring Obama to do immigration reform without destroying Rubio, I think it\u2019s profound what he\u2019s saying.<\/p>\n<p>Now I must take a brief time-out while you ponder that. I fully expect many of you to think I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  David Ignatius of the Washington Post, sadly another journalist whose career I may have just ruined.  His next assignment will probably be the Westminster dog show.  Well, we hope not. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s David Ignatius, by the way.  We have the sound bite now of Ignatius on Chris Matthews\u2019 show on Sunday where he is asking Obama (summarized), &#8220;Please, in your State of the Union, let your ideas triumph on immigration.  Don\u2019t destroy Rubio.&#8221;  I mean, I really think that this is a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>IGNATIUS:  He\u2019s gonna make immigration one of the issues he talks about in the State of the Union. The State of the Union is good, but here are the things we need to do.  He\u2019s gonna talk about immigration reform. He\u2019s gonna talk about climate change. He\u2019s gonna certainly talk about bringing the troops home from the wars.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_72685\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaVSAmerica.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MATTHEWS: M\u2019yeah!<\/p>\n<p>IGNATIUS:  I think he\u2019ll announce the number of troops that will be withdrawn.  But, you know, the Marco Rubio question gets to whether Obama can get out of the zero-sum game Washington, where to do something good on immigration reform, he\u2019s gotta, you know, destroy Marco Rubio, who\u2019s the Republican symbol of progress on that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  So Ignatius is openly wondering: Can Obama triumph on immigration reform without destroying a Republican?  Can he?  Now, I\u2019m telling you, folks&#8230;. Again, I don\u2019t want to attach a deep, big meaning to this.  I don\u2019t think it means anything like revolt in the Democrat Party or massive unsettledness with Obama, although I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if I learned that there is.  What the guy is acknowledging is Obama\u2019s technique.<\/p>\n<p>All this is is an acknowledgement of Obama\u2019s technique, and he\u2019s not what everybody thought he was in 2008.  He\u2019s not postpartisan, postracial. He\u2019s not messianic. He\u2019s not the nice guy. He\u2019s not the unifier. He\u2019s not working together with anybody.  This guy\u2019s a divider and a destroyer, and that\u2019s what Ignatius is saying, and Ignatius is saying he doesn\u2019t like it.  He\u2019s not comfortable with this.  He\u2019s not comfortable with Obama having to destroy everybody who disagrees with him. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why can\u2019t you just let your ideas win, bud?  Let your ideas triumph.&#8221;  Well, the answer to that is Obama\u2019s ideas won\u2019t triumph.  The Democrat Party\u2019s ideas today would not triumph if that\u2019s how they ran for office.  But, of course, they don\u2019t.  They do demonize, criminalize, politicize their opponents and annihilate \u2019em. They take \u2019em out.  It\u2019s exactly what they did with Romney.  But rather than read the bite, I just wanted you to hear the sound bite in Ignatius\u2019 own words.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Vinny in Queens.  Vinny, glad you called, great to have you on the program, sir.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Rush, good to talk to you.  Now, Rush, I\u2019m just gonna upbraid you a little here.  Obviously this whole David Ignatius thing, this is obviously a case of your vast intellect getting in the way of your otherwise superb common sense.  I mean, come on, as far as David Ignatius wanting Obama to actually woo voters to his cause through merit for his position, forget it.  He\u2019s worried that if Obama goes after Rubio, the Latino base may turn against him to protect one of their own.  Second, why the hell would Obama do anything other than the seek and destroy tactics, a\/k\/a, Chicago politics, that got him here in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Wait a second.  Vinny, I don\u2019t expect Obama to change.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Wait a minute.  You\u2019re thinking too much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Okay.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_72698\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"original\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushRealvilleSign.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I don\u2019t expect Obama to change anything just \u2019cause Ignatius said what he said. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Yeah, I think &#8212; I think &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Okay, Vinny, Vinny, hang on.  I gotta break here.  Hang on.  Hang on.  You think I\u2019m thinking too much, and I know you are.  So don\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. We\u2019re back now.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve got Vinny from Queens. Vinny thinks I\u2019m thinking too much. Let me just review. David Ignatius, when he was on Matthews\u2019 Sunday show, essentially said that he hopes in the upcoming immigration debate that Obama does not destroy Marco Rubio in the process. He was saying that he wishes Obama could rise above this belief that politics is &#8220;a zero-sum game,&#8221; which, in political terms, would mean that for Obama to win, somebody has gotta be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Ignatius is saying: Gee, can you let your ideas triumph? Now, Vinny thinks that my analysis is all wrong and I\u2019m thinking too much about this, that my vast intellect is overanalyzing this &#8212; and if I\u2019m right, Vinny, what you think Ignatius\u2019 motivation is, is he just afraid that if Obama starts attacking Rubio, that there\u2019s gonna be a backlash by Hispanics aimed at Obama and that that\u2019s what Ignatius is afraid of. Am I about right? Do I understand you right?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, right. I really do think that, deep in his heart, that\u2019s what David Ignatius fears. Why would David Ignatius say what he said on an otherwise absolutely abysmal program as Chris Matthews on Sunday?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know but one thing: I do not think &#8212; and I don\u2019t know why you thought this &#8212; that Obama\u2019s gonna modify the way he acts because of what Ignatius said.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t really think he thought that. I think I was just fleshing out what I was thinking. I\u2019m trying to say why Ignatius would come on and say something like that. You know, he was just trying to seem analytical.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s why you need me to tell you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (chuckles)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The fact that you hear it and are asking yourself is exactly why I decided to take this on in the first place and try to explain it, because you will admit, will you not, that it\u2019s very strange?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: For Ignatius to say what he said?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_72699\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"original\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushRubioRNC2012.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, it is very strange. But I really think he was trying to puff himself up to look somewhat analytical in talking this way, which is kind of high and mighty to what liberals really want. That\u2019s basically political dominance no matter what, and they don\u2019t care how they get it. I\u2019ve listened to you say, &#8220;Democrats run on fear, not ideas&#8221; for I don\u2019t know how many years. Nothing\u2019s going to change. Obama is going to destroy Rubio if he can, okay? Maybe Ignatius is fearful of what I\u2019m saying: That if he does, that Rubio is part of the people, okay? He\u2019s not a pretender. He\u2019s the real deal, as you\u2019ve also stated, and I think there would be a backlash for someone like Rubio\u2019s who\u2019s very telegenic, very much with what\u2019s going on out there, and I think that\u2019s what David Ignatius is really worried about.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, you could be right. But I\u2019m telling you it is, to me &#8212; and I think the fact you\u2019ve chosen to call about it and saw it yourself proves it &#8212; there is something really strange about the comment regardless of what it means or regardless what his fear is. Now, on the surface, wishful thinking would have you say that his fear is that Obama is in the process of really blowing it here because people think of Obama as a great unifier and someone who gets along with people, bipartisan and so forth, and Ignatius is worried that Obama gonna blow it for everybody here.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think that. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what Ignatius\u2019 concern is. I think there\u2019s more to it than the fact he just fears backlash. I think that there is a very&#8230; It may be hard to see at times, but some of these old-time guys &#8212; Ignatius is not a new guy; he\u2019s been around awhile &#8212; are romantically attached to this notion of bipartisanship, as long as the Republicans lose all the time. They want the Bob Michel type of bipartisanship where the Republicans are always around, but they always lose, and they\u2019re smiling and happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>I think Ignatius is worried that there\u2019s gonna be a backlash, as you say. But a lot of people, in addition to Hispanics, are gonna be upset if this stuff continues. Now, I\u2019m just speculating. I mean, I\u2019m throwing darts at the wall on that, because, like you, it\u2019s impossible to truly analyze this \u2019cause he\u2019s not here. I don\u2019t want to ask him. That\u2019s not the point. I don\u2019t care that much about it. I don\u2019t. But just to make sure you understand, I don\u2019t think that what Ignatius said is gonna have any effect on Obama\u2019s behavior at all. I hope you didn\u2019t think that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, Rush. Listen, it\u2019s always an illuminating experience and a learning experience talking to you, and I didn\u2019t think you really thought that. I just&#8230; I guess I didn\u2019t think. I didn\u2019t want anyone else to actually think that the Chicago-style politics were ever gonna change no matter what David Ignatius goes on TV to say.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No. In fact, you see, Obama\u2019s minions are already in the process of destroying Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They\u2019re already trying to.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely. That\u2019s right. They are already trying to, and they got a whole playbook on him since it was listed last year that he might be the VP candidate.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: They were already.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The Daily Caller\u2019s got a story out there right now. The headline: &#8220;Top Democrats Plan Attack on Rubio Ahead of Speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, there you go.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, Marco Rubio\u2019s gonna do the response in Spanish, and people are already ripping into him for that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, Rush, what can I say? As I said, I appreciate the time you always give me on the show.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, Vinny, I tell you: You and I, this is the first talk show in the history where both the caller and the host are accused of thinking too much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (chuckling) Well, thanks a lot, Rush. I gotta go. I live in the East here, so I gotta go back outside and shovel the global warming away from my driveway.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Just be careful. You could get a heart attack and die, Vinnie.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You survived the weekend, which makes us all happy, so don\u2019t blow it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Don\u2019t die, whatever you do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: A most amazing thing, to me, anyway. This may not be that big a deal to you, but to me it is. I found this on Newsbusters. I didn\u2019t actually see this. Chris Matthews has a syndicated show that runs on Sundays throughout the country. 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