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RUSH: Audio sound bite. Let\u2019s start with number two. As you know, I was off the air on Friday; Mark Steyn was here. Toward the end of the program on Thursday Speaker Boehner called here. All hell was breaking loose. The New York Times had that leak that a deal had been done, that Boehner and Obama were working behind the scenes, despite what either was saying in public to work on a deal. And then Fox had a crawl that a congressional staffer unnamed said, yep, there\u2019s a deal: $3 trillion in cuts and no revenue. And what turned out, folks, it was Democrats across the country who were as livid as anybody at being sold out. <\/p>\n
In fact, CNN had a story over the weekend, “Obama Losing Support Among Liberals.” Now, the purpose of that story, CNN was trying to buck up the liberals out there, “Hey, don\u2019t leave your guy hanging, he needs us.” That was the point of the story. But it was true. That\u2019s why they published it. Obama is in trouble. He\u2019s in trouble with practically every demographic group that voted for him, other than of course African-Americans. Boehner calls here on Thursday, and last Thursday and Friday the media is just upset. They thought they had a deal. And then Boehner called here and it ticked \u2019em off. We have a montage of various leftists in the media freaking out after Boehner\u2019s phone call to me on Thursday.<\/p>\n
SCARBOROUGH: John Boehner by day talks to Rush Limbaugh and by night is holding secret negotiations.<\/p>\n
BOLDUAN: John Boehner went on the Rush Limbaugh radio show very quickly.<\/p>\n
RUSSERT: Speaker Boehner was on the Rush Limbaugh program and said there\u2019s been no deal publicly or privately. So that\u2019s what the official word is right now.<\/p>\n
FOREMAN: Listen to Boehner himself earlier today on Rush Limbaugh\u2019s radio show. “No deal, no deal, no deal.”<\/p>\n
O\u2019DONNELL: Still feeling he had to make it absolutely clear that he had not moved one inch in the president\u2019s direction, the Speaker of the House called the commander-in-chief of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh. <\/p>\n
RUSH: Lawrence O\u2019Donnell of MSNBC. Then on Sunday morning, the syndicated Inside Washington during the roundtable discussion, the host Gordon Peterson spoke with Colbert King, nickname Colby, of the Washington Post about Obama, the debt ceiling negotiations, and me. Gordon Peterson said, “How\u2019s this playing on the independents? That\u2019s where the action is. It was there in 2008, 2010.”<\/p>\n
KING: What we also have operating here is such an anti-Obama mood that it\u2019s almost difficult to get anything done. Listening to Rush Limbaugh, his biggest concern was Republicans should do nothing to help Obama. There was no reference to saving the country, no such reference to averting disaster with the debt ceiling. It was a question of helping or hurting Obama.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll share with you a brief Inside Baseball moment. I don\u2019t know if it was Internet chat or instant message chat or something, maybe it was early Saturday morning, still in Boston, and I was talking to a couple friends who have their own shows, and they were asking me, “How is it different now than say back in the nineties, early, mid-nineties, with Clinton and so forth.” I said it\u2019s dramatically different. Look, I\u2019m not tugging your heartstrings here; I\u2019m trying to be honest. In many ways it\u2019s harder than ever to do this show at a top-notch level, and the reason is that radio is an entertainment media. People tune in here and want to be entertained, and they want all that that encompasses. At the same time they want to be seriously informed. <\/p>\n
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People\u2019s lives are being destroyed here. People know that their futures are being cut out from underneath them. In the past the country was nowhere near as near at risk as it is today. At no time in the past was it accurate to say, “Four more years of president X and this country as we\u2019ve known it ceases to exist.” That is today\u2019s reality. Four more years of an unchecked, unstopped Obama and America as we know it is transformed in ways that people have no desire to see. Obamacare is just one illustrative element. I don\u2019t see any humor in people being on unemployment for 99 weeks. I see humor in individuals who have been on unemployment for 99 weeks who make no effort to get off who make fools of themselves. <\/p>\n
For this guy, Colbert King, in his glorious ignorance, to sit here and say that I have no interest in saving the country is just pure lunacy, ignorance or what have you. He clearly doesn\u2019t listen, reads whatever talking points. You and I together are trying to save this country. The people inside the Beltway don\u2019t think it needs to be saved. They don\u2019t look at it that way. This is just another round of spending, national debt goes up a little bit. All these things, just a business cycle. It will all get turned around if Obama gets his way. To them the number one thing is conservative Republicans don\u2019t end up in power, because then the country will be saved. They don\u2019t want it saved the way we do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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