{"id":28665,"date":"2008-03-12T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:10:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:10:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:10:07","slug":"rush_demands_obama_apologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/12\/rush_demands_obama_apologize\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Demands Obama Apologize"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: This is last night on the campaign trail. And this is interesting, too. Since the media, the Drive-Bys, are paying more attention to me than they are Senator McCain, I guess Obama has decided he should shift his campaign and run against me.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: When I hear Rush Limbaugh or some of these people talking about how we need to send \u2019em all back, we\u2019re not going to send \u2019em all back. First of all, this is a country of immigrants. Second of all, as a practical matter, we would end up having to use all of our law enforcement resources to round people up, detain them, separate families. It\u2019s not a realistic solution. We\u2019re not going to be able to solve the problem if we\u2019re just shouting about it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rush_Demands_Obama_Apologize.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: I don\u2019t know what&#8230; He\u2019s talking about immigration here, but I have never said deport these people. I have said it\u2019s not realistic. In fact, when the argument has come up&#8230; You know, when we had the amnesty program going through the bill. What was that, McCain-Kennedy? McCain-Kennedy was the amnesty. It was McCain and some other Democrat. When it was going through Congress &#8212; well, when it was being, you know, hashed out behind closed doors under the cover of darkness &#8212; they had all these fines. They had all these things. All these illegals that were in the country going to have to show up somewhere, pay a fine, go to the back of the line, and maybe go home or whatever, and I said, &#8216;How in the world is this going to happen? Our immigration program now can\u2019t track down all these people!\u2019 I don\u2019t know where Obama is getting this that I am in favor of deportation. I have never come out in favor of deportation. That\u2019s not the focus of &#8216;comprehensive immigration reform.\u2019 The focus is stopping the inflow and securing the border, and we\u2019ll deal with things after that. There\u2019s gotta be a stop to this, pure and simple, and every bit of legislation that\u2019s come out of Congress on this has done nothing about that. They want to increase the flow of illegals, and they want these people &#8212; both parties, so they can get their voters, or try to get these people as voters. But, anyway, I find it interesting out there, Obama hitting me, running against me here, rather than Senator McCain, because I\u2019m in the news more than Senator McCain is. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I got just a few sound bites here on the Spitzer stuff. By the way, I think I do need to send Obama some talking points on immigration. McCain can send Obama talking points on his middle name, and not using it. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m in such a good mood today, I think I had a less than appropriate and serious reaction to our Obama sound bite. Would you go back, Mike, grab Obama sound bite number two, tell me when it\u2019s ready so that we can listen to this again. I\u2019m so used to being mischaracterized; I\u2019m so used to be being criticized; I\u2019m so used to be being lied about that, to me, it\u2019s just funny, but I think I was a little bit too flippant about this.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: When I hear Rush Limbaugh or some of these people talking about how we need to send \u2019em all back, we\u2019re not going to send \u2019em all back. First of all, this is a country of immigrants. Second of all, as a practical matter, we would end up having to use all of our law enforcement resources to round people up, detain them, separate families. It\u2019s not a realistic solution. We\u2019re not going to be able to solve the problem if we\u2019re just shouting about it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rush_Demands_Obama_Apologize.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"159\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: I have never called for the deportation of all illegals in this country. As I say, my original reaction to this was a bit flippant. I think that this calls for something a little bit more serious, because Senator Obama is running for president and is distorting my words, attacking me unfairly, saying things about me which aren\u2019t true. I would like to challenge Barack Obama, who is running around demanding corrections from everybody else who misspeaks about him or who offends him, I would like to challenge Obama to prove where I ever said that immigrants ought to be rounded up and deported. I have talked about creating disincentives in which companies that hire illegals stop hiring \u2019em, where illegal immigrants are less likely to come here or stay here because of a reduction of opportunities, but I never said we should round up people and deport them. <\/p>\n<p>So I insist the Democrat presidential candidate leader, Barack Obama, apologize for this falsehood. He needs to get his facts straight, especially since he demands accuracy from others. He\u2019s out there complaining about all the stuff said about him that isn\u2019t true. He even gets mad when you use his real middle name. He gets upset about that. I have never once called for the rounding up and deportation on a mass basis of every illegal immigrant in this country. It\u2019s one thing when some stupid little blogger, some irrelevant little Drive-By journalist gets something wrong because that\u2019s their stock-in-trade. This is a presidential candidate, and he happens to be leading the Democrat race for president. Obviously, he\u2019s upset at Operation Chaos and the Rush the Vote and so forth, but that\u2019s no excuse. I am owed an apology by the man leading the Democrat presidential primary races. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Obama, we played the sound bite earlier, lied about me. He has turned his focus on me since I\u2019m in the media more than McCain is. He accused me of calling for mass deportation of all the illegal immigrants in the country, which I have never done. I earlier challenged Obama, who\u2019s running around demanding corrections from people who misspeak about him or who offend him. I challenged him earlier to prove where I ever said that immigrants ought to be rounded up and deported. I\u2019ve talked about other things, creating disincentives for companies that hire illegals would stop hiring them, you know, disincentives for illegals to keep coming and so forth, but I never have supported a full deportation roundup. So earlier, I insisted that Obama apologize for his falsehood. He needs to get his facts straight out there, especially since he\u2019s demanding accuracy from everybody else. Now, Obama, back to Ferraro, Obama is saying that Ferraro is trying to divide Democrats with the slice-and-dice business. USA Today just posted it an hour ago. <\/p>\n<p>Well, let me say Obama is trying to divide the nation with false allegations against me! Yes, he is. He is trying to divide the nation with false allegations against me. Obama is trying to introduce race into this discussion and into this election. You don\u2019t think there\u2019s a racial component here, when he lies about me, demanding that all these illegals be deported? You know, he\u2019s weak on the Hispanic side, folks. We\u2019ve talked about this. He\u2019s trying to pick up Hispanic votes. He\u2019s doing it by attacking me and lying about me, and I\u2019ve demanded that he apologize for this. He\u2019s trying to divide the nation using me and introducing race into this election by attacking me about deporting illegals. He\u2019s trying to play to the fears of Hispanic-Americans by attacking me and lying about what I said. He\u2019s playing to the fears of the Latino community, and I demand that he stop it. At least stop it in my name because I didn\u2019t say anything like he said I said. He\u2019s all sensitive about being lied about and so forth. I\u2019ve got more experience being lied about than Obama will have even if he becomes president. He\u2019s a presidential candidate, and when those guys start lying about you, you know, Clinton tells these lying jokes about me at the White House Correspondents Dinner, also race related, by the way, and now Obama has gotten into the act. <\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: This is last night on the campaign trail. And this is interesting, too. Since the media, the Drive-Bys, are paying more attention to me than they are Senator McCain, I guess Obama has decided he should shift his campaign and run against me. 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