{"id":18193,"date":"2011-08-17T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T20:15:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-08-18T20:15:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T20:15:02","slug":"a_prayer_to_the_messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/08\/17\/a_prayer_to_the_messiah\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer to The Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Mike in St. Louis. Mike, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. You know, yesterday you played the recording of that guy &#8212; you referred to him as a &#8220;prop&#8221; &#8212; at the Obama town hall making that comment, that very supportive comment that seemed so staged and faked?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, yeah. (paraphrased) &#8220;You\u2019re working so hard and you\u2019re facing such opposition and standing so tall for us.&#8221; Yeah, I remember that. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: You know, I was listening to it, and the tone of voice and the way you were saying it, the words? I thought, &#8220;You know, this sounds like a prayer to Obama.&#8221; You change just a few of the words around and it could be a prayer.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We gotta go get that bite from yesterday. Cookie, find that bite, and we\u2019ll listen to it. I want to listen to it again now that that was your take.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: That was my take on it, yeah.<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: A prayer, almost like a prayer. It sounded to me like something nobody would speak or say extemporaneously, it had to be written.<\/line><img id=\"eZObject_53708\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/prayer1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right, it was unnatural.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s what I mean, yeah, exactly.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, yeah. Well, anyway, if you listen to it with that mind-set, maybe you\u2019ll see what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s the bite. I forget where this was in Illinois yesterday, or Ohio, maybe it was Minnesota, one of the first days of the tour. Listen.<\/p>\n<p>MAN: I want to echo the sentiments of those who have spoken before me in praising you and thanking you for all of your efforts and all the things that you tried to do during probably one of the most difficult situations faced by any president in the face of unreasonable obstruction and opposition. So thank you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, you\u2019re right. Almost like a prayer. I want to echo the sentiments of those who have spoken before me in praising you and thanking you for all of your efforts and all the things you\u2019ve tried to do during probably one of the most difficult situations faced by any president. That\u2019s something the regime wrote for the guy, it sounds like, that\u2019s my suspicion. But Mike, we have to admit, sadly, there are people I\u2019m sure who still view Obama that way.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hm-hm. That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No question. All praise to Obama. I still want to know what opposition. He had supermajorities in the House and the Senate. The Republicans did not have the numbers to stop anything. Folks, people have forgotten, during Obamacare the Republicans didn\u2019t have the numbers to stop anything the first two years in the House or the Senate. They had 60 votes in the Senate until Scott Brown won the Kennedy seat. They had supermajorities. What opposition? I\u2019ll tell you what the opposition is, it\u2019s me and the conservative talk radio community and the bloggers and so forth. What did Obama try to do in the first two years that he didn\u2019t do? He didn\u2019t really seriously try cap and trade. He didn\u2019t really seriously try some of these things and it bothered a lot of people, some pet issues that he didn\u2019t get to.<\/p>\n<p>He got his Porkulus. He got his stimulus. He got all the other stimuluses he wanted. He got health care. What opposition? It\u2019s just a typical myth. Poor beleaguered messiah, people just don\u2019t have any appreciation for how hard it is being so opposed at every turn.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Ray in Miami. Ray, great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Obama is on his misery tour &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; black and red misery tour. You know what the colors black and red represent to the international socialist movement?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What do the colors black and red represent to the international socialist movement?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s a symbol for them.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, you\u2019ll have to tell me.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Fidel Castro, 26 of July movement, Sandinista, ACORN, the red brigades, on and on. He\u2019s showing his true colors, Rush.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Showing his true colors. Yeah, why couldn\u2019t you have a red and blue bus?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Nah, it has to be black and red.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It has to be black and red. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Symbolism is very important to socialists.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, you sound like you would know.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I surely do. I\u2019m sorry, but I do. I saw my country being ruined by people like that. And I hope that the American public wise up and get this guy out of there before he completely ruins this country.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Are you Cuban?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, I am.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: How long have you been in the states?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Forty-nine years. I left ten days before the missile crisis.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: How many years did you think you would be able to go back? How many of these 49 years have you thought, okay, next year I get to go back to Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, I\u2019m a realist. Even if this guy, you know, even if he disappears from the face of the earth, him and his brother, it will take a couple generations to clean that place up and &#8212; (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And then if that happens, then Hugo Chavez is gonna move in and try to take over the place. Yeah, it\u2019s a sad, sad situation. Thanks Ray.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I want you to listen to this again cause this guy from St. Louis really nails this. This was Monday, Cannon Falls, Minnesota, where this audience member got a chance to ask Obama a question and said this.<\/p>\n<p>MAN: I want to echo the sentiments of those who have spoken before me in praising you and thanking you for all of your efforts and all the things that you tried to do during probably one of the most difficult situations faced by any president in the face of unreasonable obstruction and opposition. So thank you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That sounds like a prayer. It also sounds like Neil Cavuto. I know it wasn\u2019t Neil Cavuto, \u2019cause he was on TV that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Mike in St. Louis. Mike, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi. CALLER: Hi, Rush. 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