{"id":15878,"date":"2012-04-25T16:51:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:51:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:51:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:51:29","slug":"obama_on_el_rushbo_in_rolling_stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/25\/obama_on_el_rushbo_in_rolling_stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama on El Rushbo in Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, Obama sat for an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, and in this interview… I wasn\u2019t gonna mention this until later in the program, but Cookie just sent me the sound bite. Obama “slow-jammed”<\/a> on me and Grover Norquist. And we\u2019ve got audiotape of Eric Bates, who is the executive editor of Rolling Stone. He was on CNN\u2019s Newsroom this morning with the anchorette Kyra Phillips, who said, “He told you straight up, when you asked about Mitt Romney, he wasn\u2019t gonna talk about Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

<\/a>“But he did mention John Boehner. And he said, ‘Look, I got some great relationships with some Republicans, and I\u2019m not gonna mention any names.'” This is Obama talking. “‘I\u2019ve some great relationships with Republicans, but I\u2019m not gonna tell you who. And I\u2019m not gonna mention any names. They\u2019re kind of staying low right now, these Republicans, considering the environment.\u2019 Well, what was your take, Eric, from that moment, when Obama told you that, when he talked about Boehner and other Republicans?””<\/p>\n

BATES: I think he was really trying to draw a line and distinguish the majority of Republicans from the Republican caucus in Congress that has sort of seized control and taken the party in a more extreme direction. He — he made several references to that during the course of the interview and basically said, “Look, I think there are Republicans in Congress who want work with me but they can\u2019t in this kind of environment where Grover Norquist and Rush Limbaugh are setting the terms.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Obama wants to work with Boehner. He wants to work with Paul Ryan. He wants to work with Eric Cantor. He wants to work with all these wonderful Republicans. Let me say this again and I\u2019m gonna take the names out \u2019cause I don\u2019t know who he\u2019s talking about, so it\u2019s not fair for me to mention the names. But I do want to translate this. Eric Bates says Obama feels, “I think there are Republicans in Congress who want to work with me, but they can\u2019t in this kind of environment where Norquist and Limbaugh are setting the terms.”<\/p>\n

What that means is, Obama has identified some Republicans who are more than willing to cave, but they won\u2019t because of me and Grover Norquist. That\u2019s what he\u2019s saying. That\u2019s what Obama is saying. That\u2019s what Eric Bates is saying Obama said, that he\u2019s identified Republicans who\u2019ll cave. Why would Obama want to work with any Republicans if they\u2019re not gonna cave? Obama\u2019s not interested in compromising what he\u2019s all about. So he\u2019s telling this guy — and, by the way, this can all be BS, too.<\/p>\n

It could be Obama just totally making it up.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019ll proceed under the assumption here that he\u2019s being truthful.<\/p>\n

And that there are some Republicans that are willing to work with him, willing to cave; Republicans willing to let Obama have what he wants, but Norquist and Limbaugh are standing in the way. It\u2019s Rush\u2019s fault! It\u2019s Rush\u2019s fault. Yep, Norquist has his no-tax pledge. They hate that. Republicans all signed a pledge not to raise taxes. And then there\u2019s me. And I\u2019m just, of course, omnipresent. Not just on taxes, but on everything. In fact, Cookie, I do not want the audio of this. I told her earlier I didn\u2019t want it. On Fox this morning, Martha MacCallum had an all-female panel to discuss my contention yesterday on Sandra Fluke\u2019s tweet on the student loan interest rate doubling, going up on July 1st.<\/p>\n

Within minutes of Obama saying the same thing at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in his speech, I contended, “Hey, this isn\u2019t coincidental,” and I mentioned that Sandra Fluke is being represented by Anita Dunn and her PR agency. Hilary Rosen and Anita Dunn, former White House employee. I mean, there\u2019s coordination. There\u2019s no doubt there\u2019s coordination between the White House and Anita Dunn in how they\u2019re using Sandra Fluke. So I mentioned that yesterday. That was the subject of the all-female discussion panel. And Judith Miller, who went to jail for not giving up a source (she used to be at the New York Times) said (impression), “Well, I just don\u2019t believe this! I don\u2019t think… I just — I — I just — I — I…<\/p>\n

“Rush Limbaugh should never, after what happened, ever mention her name! He should never! She\u2019s a 30-year-old college student! She\u2019s articulate. She\u2019s well-spoken. I can\u2019t believe that Limbaugh! He had no business talking about her again.” I\u2019m watching this, and Martha said, “He\u2019s standing his ground. What the heck? He\u2019s just telling anybody what he thinks.” Jedediah [Bila] was on, the conservative columnist, and she agreed with me. And then there was another woman who was the spokeswoman for the House Republican Conference who thought that I was overdoing it.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t really planned because all of these kids and people are tweeting about this student loan thing and Obama\u2019s talking about it. It was just a coincidence. But Judith Miller said I should never mention that name again. And I thought, “You know, a former New York Times reporter, former liberal, this is how they think: Don\u2019t ever say anything!” I now don\u2019t have the right to mention the name. That\u2019s how they do their censorship. That\u2019s how they try to intimidate you into shutting up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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